Publications

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Academic Publications: 2000 - current. 

John Confer,  P. Hartman and A. Roth of a monograph on the Golden-winged Warbler for the Birds of North America series. By some estimates, the golden-wing has been declining exponentially at 10.3% per year, the highest rate for all birds of eastern United States. The report was recently released digitally by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and can be accessed through the Ithaca College library at  http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/020doi:10.2173/bna.20.

Confer, John L., Rebecca E. Serrell, Mark Hager, and Eleanor Lahr. 2008. “ Field Tests of the Rosenberg-Blancher Method for Converting Point Counts to Abundance Estimates”. The Auk.125:932-938. View the PDF of the abstract here.

T. Hauck, M-E. Silvia, and V. Frary. 2008. “Avian shrubland management and shrubland nesting success.” In Proceeding of the Eighth International Symposium on Environmental Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management. (J. W. Goodrich, L. P. Abrahamson, J. L. Ballard, S. M. Tikalsky, Eds.). Electric Power Research Institute, Washington, D.C., pages 407-412.

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Confer, John L.  The Golden-winged Warbler.  in press. A species account in the Second Atlas of the Breeding Birds of New York. 

Confer, John. L. The Blue-winged Warbler.  in press. A species account in the Second Atlas of  the Breeding Birds of New York. 

Confer, John. L. The Brewster’s and Lawrence’s hybrids.  in press. An account in the Second Atlas of the Breeding Birds of New York.

Buehler, D. A., A. M. Roth, R. Vallender, T. C. Will, J. L. Confer, R. A. Canterbury, S. E. Barker, K. V. Rosenberg, L. P. Bullock. in press. Status and conservation of Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera). Auk.

Confer, J. L. 2006. Secondary contact and introgression of Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera): Documenting the mechanism. Auk 123:958-961.

Dabrowski, A., R. Fraser, J. L. Confer, and J. L. Lovette. 2005. Geographic variability in mitochondrial  introgression among hybridizing populations of Golden-winged (Vermivora chrysoptera) and Blue-winged (V. pinus) Warblers. Conservation Genetics 6:843-853.

 Buehler, D., J. Confer, and R. Canterbury. 2004. “Status Assessment for the Golden-winged   Warbler”.  Accepted technical report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey as part of the Endangered Species  Act. 

Confer, J. L. 2004. Extirpation of golden-winged warblers: habitat loss and/or hybridization? Annual meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Association. Ithaca, New York.

Confer, J. L. 2003. "Avian communities on utility rights-of-way". Submitted to Orange and Rockland Utility and New YorkState Electric and Gas.

Confer, J. L. P. E. Allen, and J. L. Larkin. 2003.  “Effects of vegetation, interspecific competition, and brood parasitism on Golden-winged Warbler nesting success”. The  Auk 121: 138-144. 

Confer, J. L. and S. M. Pascoe. 2003. “The avian community on utility rights-of-ways and other managed shrublands in northeastern United States”. Forest Ecology and Management  85:193-206. 

Confer, John L. 2002. “Management, vegetative structure and shrubland birds on rights-of- way”. In Environmental Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management, Seventh International Symposium (J. W. Goodrich-Mahoney, Ed.). Electric Power Research Institute, Washington, D.C. 

Gill, F. B., R.A. Canterbury and J. L. Confer. 2001. "Blue-winged Warbler  (Vermivora pinus)".  In The Birds of North America, No. 584 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Hunter, W.C., D. A. Buehler, R. A. Canterbury, J. L. Confer, P. B. Hamel. 2001. “Conservation of Disturbance-Dependent Birds in Eastern North America”. Wildlife Society Bulletin 29:440-455. 

Confer, J. L. and S. K. Tupper.  2000.  "A reassessment of the status of Golden-winged and Blue-winged Warblers in the Hudson Highlands of southern New Yor"k. Wilson Bulletin 112:544-546.