Publications (Project)
Photo credit: Morgan Donaldson
The NWRC North Dakota Field Station, under the direction of Dr. George Linz (1989-2015) has a long history of investigating blackbird biology, evaluating management tools, and making connections to the impact on agriculture and human health. Please reference the highlighted publications for a background to the NWRC project.
Please reference the highlighted publications for recent work in the NWRC Birds and Agriculture project.
2024
- White MG, DR Mataic, JR Boulanger, MS Donaldson, PE Klug. 2024. Farmer perceptions of current and novel mitigation tools used for bird-agricultural conflict in the northern Great Plains of the United States. Crop Protection (Submitted).
- Manz ST, KE Sieving, RN Brown, PE Klug, BM Kluever. 2023. Experimental Assessment of Laser Scarecrows for Reducing Avian Damage to Sweet Corn. Pest Management Science 78:xx-xx. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.7888
- Hess, SC, CJ Anderson, EA Tillman, WP Bukoski, LA Brennan, AB Shiels, PE Klug, SR Siers, BM Kluever. 2023. Prospects for Using Bird Feeders to Deliver Chemical Control Products to Invasive Rose-ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri) in Hawai‘i. Pacific Science 77:111-123. https://doi.org/10.2984/77.1.7
- Egan CE, BF Blackwell, E Fernández-Juricic, PE Klug. 2023. Dispersal of blackbird flocks from sunflower fields: efficacy influenced by flock and field size but not drone platform. Wildlife Society Bulletin 47:e1478. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1478
- Anderson CJ, EA Tillman, WP Bukoski, SC Hess, LA Brennan, PE Klug, BM Kluever. 2023. A Novel Parakeet-Selective Feeder for Control of Invasive Psittacines. Wildlife Society Bulletin 47:e1483. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1483
- Anderson CJ, LA Brennan, WP Bukoski, SC Hess, CD Hilton, AB Shiels, SR Siers, BM Kluever, PE Klug. 2023. Evaluation of Roost Culling as a Management Strategy for Reducing Invasive Rose-Ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri) Populations. Biological Invasions 25:1403–1419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02984-3
- Klug PE, AB Shiels, BM Kluever, CJ Anderson, SC Hess, EW Ruell, WP Bukoski, SR Siers. 2022. A review of control tools for managing the damage of invasive birds to human assets and economic activities. Management of Biological Invasions 14:1-44. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2023.14.1.01
- Blackwell BF, PE Klug, LA Humberg, ZT Brym, BM Kluever, J Edwards. 2022 . Cultivation of industrial hemp on and near airports: implications for wildlife use and risk to aviation safety. Human-Wildlife Interactions 16:373–383. https://doi.org/10.26077/9721-9c7d
- Kotten EA, I Hennessy, Z Brym, BM Kluever, BF Blackwell, LA Humberg, PE Klug. 2022. Industrial Hemp as a Resource for Birds in Agroecosystems: Human-Wildlife Conflict or Conservation Opportunity? Human-Wildlife Interactions 16:384-398. https://doi.org/10.26077/c340-6745.
- Eshleman, MA, PE Klug, E Morales-Vega, B Wissel, TJ Greives. 2021. Relationship between reproductive hormones and migration distance in a polygynous songbird, the Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus). Journal of Ornithology 163:425–436.
- Stonefish D., MA Eshleman, GM Linz, HJ Homan, PE Klug, TJ Greives, EH Gillam. 2021. Migration routes and wintering areas of male Red-winged Blackbirds as determined using geolocators. Journal of Field Ornithology 92(3):284–293.
- Sausse C, A Baux, M Bertrand, E Bonnaud, S Canavelli, A Destrez, PE Klug, L Olivera, E Rodriguez, G Tellechea, S Zuil. 2021. Contemporary challenges and opportunities for the management of bird damage a field crop establishment Crop Protection 148:105736.
- Werrell AK, PE Klug, RN Lipcius, JP Swaddle, J.P., 2021. A Sonic Net reduces damage to sunflower by blackbirds (Icteridae): implications for broad-scale agriculture and crop establishment. Crop Protection 144:105579.
- Kaiser BA, MH Ostlie, B Johnson, SJ Werner, PE Klug. 2021. Inefficiency of anthraquinone-based avian repellents when applied to sunflower: the importance of crop vegetative and floral characteristics in field applications. Pest Management Science 77:1502-1511.
- Clark BA, PE Klug, PM Stepanian, JF Kelly. 2020. Using bioenergetics and radar-derived bird abundance to assess the impact of a blackbird roost on seasonal sunflower damage. Human–Wildlife Interactions 14(3):427-441.
- Klug, PE. 2020. Pest Management – Birds. In H Kandel, G Endres, R Buetow (Eds.), Sunflower Production Guide. North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and North Dakota State University Extension, North Dakota State University, pp 130-135. Fargo, North Dakota, USA. Sunflower Production Guide (A1995) (ndsu.edu)
- Klug PE, HJ Homan. 2020. Movement behavior of radio-tagged European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) in urban, rural, and exurban landscapes. Human–Wildlife Interactions 14(3):398-408.
- Shiels AB, PE Klug, BM Kluever, SR Siers. 2020. Rose-ringed Parakeets in California: Established Populations and Potentially a Serious Agricultural Threat. In Proceedings of the 29th Vertebrate Pest Conference. Ed. DM Woods, University of California. Davis, California USA. Paper No. 43, pp 5.
- Egan CC, BF Blackwell, E Fernández-Juricic, PE Klug. 2020. Testing a key assumption of using drones as frightening devices: Do birds perceive wildlife-monitoring drones as risky? Condor 122:1-15. http://doi:10.1093/condor/duaa014
- Klug PE, WP Bukoski, AB Shiels, BM Kluever, SR Siers. 2019. Rose-ringed Parakeets. US Department of Agriculture, Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services, Wildlife Damage Management Technical Series. pp 1-16.
- Klug PE, HJ Homan, BD Peer, GM Linz. 2019. Flight Feather Molt in Common Grackles (Quiscalus quiscula). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 131(4):1-10
- Bansal S, SC Lishawa, S Newman, BA Tangen, D Wilcox, D Albert, MJ Anteau, M Chimney, RL Cressey, ES DeKeyser, KJ Elgersma, SA Finkelstein, JR Freeland, R Grosshans, PE Klug, DJ Larkin, BA Lawrence, GM Linz, JE Marburger, GB Noe, CRV Otto, NJ Reo, JH Richards, CJ Richardson, L Rodgers, AJ Schrank, WD Svedarsky, SE Travis, NC Tuchman, A van der Valk, L Windham-Meyer. 2019. Typha (cattail) Invasion in North American Wetlands: Biology, Regional Problems, Impacts, Ecosystem Services, and Management. Wetlands 39:645-684.
- Wandrie LJ, PE Klug, ME Clark. 2019. Evaluation of two unmanned aircraft systems as tools for protecting crops from blackbird damage. Crop Protection 117:15-19
- Klug PE, WP Bukoski, AB Shiels, BM Kluever, SR Siers. 2018. Critical review of potential control tools for reducing damage by the invasive Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri) on the Hawaiian Islands. Unpublished Final Report QA-2836. USDA-APHIS-WS NWRC. Fort Collins, CO. 52 pp.
- Mahoney JL, PE Klug, WL Reed. 2018 An assessment of U.S. Endangered Species Act recovery plans: using physiology to support conservation. Conservation Physiology 6:10.1093/conphys/coy036.