The Breeding Birds of Kansas

A comprehensive regional study catalogs the breeding birds of Kansas, combining distributional maps, habitat descriptions, and detailed species accounts for roughly 176 breeding species. It analyzes habitat associations including riparian woodlands, documents where species reach range limits, and compiles breeding-season data by correcting observations to clutch-completion dates to produce egg-season histograms. The work examines variation in timing between residents and migrants, zoogeographic and phylogenetic influences on breeding schedules, and ecological regulators of reproduction, and concludes with species-by-species accounts, acknowledgments, and literature citations, highlighting gaps in knowledge and directions for future field work.