NOTES: ADDITIONS TO THE BIRDS OF THE NEVADA TEST SITE

Abstract

Since the establishment of the Nevada Test Site (112 km NW of Las Vegas) in 1950, there has been only one comprehensive study of the birds in its 3,500 km². Hayward et al. (1963) published the first report, which resulted primarily from the collection of 900 specimens. More recently, the birds in a Larrea-Ambrosia community of southwestern NTS have been well documented by Herbert O. Hill (1971, 1972, 1973) under the International Biological Program/Desert Biome studies. The nature of work carried on here by the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) makes it impossible to allow unrestricted access to ornithologists.