Auk

Auk

First published in 1884 by the American Ornithologists' Union, whose Society was founded a year earlier, in 1883. It is the oldest and largest organization in the New World devoted to the scientific study of birds. The publication grew out of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, which was published from 1876 to 1883, although the club began in 1874, this according to Jeff Marks, Managing Editor, The Auk, 1997.

In 1886, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (1850-1930), Massachusetts scientist who joined the Wheeler Survey as a naturalist exploring the west (1872-1879), described the endemic Santa Cruz Island jay as a subspecies of the mainland jay in 1886. It was named its own species, as published in Auk Volume 112.

The Auk has been published continuously since 1884 (originally by the American Ornithologists’ Union). It was honored in 2009 as one of the 100 most influential journals of biology and medicine over the past 100 years. Today, it remains at the top of peer-reviewed journals focusing on birds, with one of the highest Journal Impact Factors among ornithological journals worldwide. In 2014, The Auk became The Auk: Ornithological Advances, an international journal that advances fundamental scientific knowledge in two ways: increasing our basic knowledge of bird species, both living and extinct; and increasing our understanding of broad biological concepts through studies of bird species.

• [ AUK ]. Biographies of Members of the American Ornithologists' Union Reprinted from "The Auk" 1884-1954. Washington, D.C.: (The Lord Baltimore Press), 1954. First edition. Contains biographies of many ornithologists who worked on the California Islands.

[original in SCIF archives; two copies]

• 1886. Henshaw, Henry W. Description of a new jay from California Auk 3(4):452-453, October 1886

• 1886. Blake, Eli Whitney. Summer Birds of Santa Cruz Island, California Auk 4:328-330, October 1886

• 1887. Blake, Eli W. Summer Birds of Santa Cruz Island, California Auk 4(4):328-330, October 1887

• 1887. Blake, Eli W. Nesting Habits of Empidonax insulicola Auk 14(4):405-406 October-December 1897.

• 1889. Jeffries, W. A. Birds observed at Santa Barbara, California Birds observed at Santa Barbara, California Auk 6:220-223, 1889

• 1895. Anthony, A.W. A New Species of Thyrothorus from the Pacific Coast Auk 12(1):51-52, 1895

• 1897. Grinnell, Joseph Description of a new towhee from California [San Clemente I] Auk 14(3):294-296, July 1897

• 1897. Oberholser, Harry C. Description of a New Empidonax Auk 14(3):300-303, July 1897

• 1897. Blake, Eli W. Nesting Habits of Empidonax insulicola Auk 14(4):405-406, October 1897

• 1898. Grinnell, Joseph Land Birds Observed in Mid-Winter on Santa Catalina Island, California Auk 15(3):233-236, 1898

[original separate in SCIF archives]

• 1898. Ridgway, R. Description of supposed new genera, species and subspecies of American birds, I. Fringillidae Auk 15(3):223-230, July 1898

• 1898. Grinnell, Joseph The San Nicolas Rock Wren Auk 15(3):237-239, 1898

[original separate in SCIF archives]

• 1898. Mearns, Edgar Descriptions of Two New Birds from the Santa Barbara Islands, Southern California Auk 15(3):259-264

• 1903. Grinnell, Joseph & F. S. Daggett An Ornithological Visit to Los Coronados Islands, Lower California Auk 20(1):27-37, 1903

• 1904. Breninger, George F. San Clemente Island and its Birds Auk 21 (2):218-223, April 1904

[original in SCIF archives; Volume 21 bound. Ex-lib.]

• 1904. Ray, Milton S. A Fortnight on the Farallones Auk 21(4): 425-442, October 1904

[original in SCIF archives; Volume 21 bound. Ex-lib.]

• 1906. Grinnell, Joseph The Catalina Island Quail Auk 23(3):262-265, July 1906

• 1908. Linton, C. B. Pipilo Clementae excluded from Santa Cruz Island Avifauna Auk 10:208, Sept-Oct. 1908

• 1911. Linton, C. B. Nests of the San Nicolas Rock Wren Auk 28(4):489, 1911

• 1911. Mearns, Edgar Notes on Two Unrecognized Forms of North American Birds Auk 28(4):489-490, 1911

• 1917. Stone, Wilmer, ed. Review on A.B. Howell's Birds of the Islands off the Coast of Southern California Auk 34(4):489, October 1917

• 1922. Oberholser, Harry C. Notes on North American Birds Auk 39(1):72-78, 1922

• 1922. Grinnell, Joseph The Role of the Accidental Auk 39(3):373-380, 1922

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1932. Van Rossem, A. J. On the Validity of the San Clemente Island Bell’s Sparrow Auk 49(4):490-491 October-December 1932

• 1947. Miller, Robert C. Joseph Mailliard, 1857-1945 Auk 64(2):300-302 April-June 1947

• 1955 Taber, Wendell In Memorium: Arthur Cleveland Bent Auk 72:332-339, 1955

• 1957. Miller, Alden H. In Memorium: Adriaan Joseph van Rossem Auk 74(1):20-27 January-March 1957

• 1957. Miller, Alden H. In Memorium: Adriaan Joseph van Rossem Auk 74(4):412-432, October 1957

[original in SCIF archives]

• 1979. Kiff, Lloyd F. Bird Egg Collections in North America Auk 96:746-755, October 1979

• 1984. VanVuren, Dirk Aerobatic Rolls by Ravens on Santa Cruz Island, California Auk 101:620-621, July 1984

[separate; original in SCIF archives ]