For Midterm:

Evolution
Gould, S. J. 1987. Darwinisim defined: the difference between fact and theory. Discover (January): 64-69.

Importance of bird biology
Konishi, M. et al. 1989. Contributions of bird studies to biology. Science 246: 465-472.

Archaeopteryx
Morell, V. 1993. Archaeopteryx: early bird catches a can of worms. Science 259: 764-765.
Feduccia, A. 1994. The great dinosaur debate. Living Bird (Autumn): 29-33.

For Final:

Field notes/natural history:
Greene, H. W. 1986. Natural history and evolutionary biology. Pp. 99- 108 in Perspectives and Approaches from the Study of Lower Vertebrates (M. E. Feder and G. V. Lauder, eds.). Univ. Chicago Press.
Smith, L. C. 1979. To a bigot. Canadian Field-Nat. 93: 231.
Hailman, J. P. Fieldism.
Futuyma, D. J. 1994. Wherefore and whither the naturalist. Presidential address to the American Society of Naturalists, Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists, and Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution.
Remsen, J. V., Jr. 1977. On taking field notes. Amer. Birds 31: 946-953.

Museum specimens:
Remsen, J. V., Jr. 1995. The importance of continued collecting of bird specimens to ornithology and bird conservation. Bird Conservation International 5: 145-180.
Howard, W. E. 1992. Nature's death ethic.
Coniff, R. 1990. Fuzzy-wuzzy thinking about Animal Rights. Audubon (November): 120-133

Human effects on birds:
Diamond, J. 1990. Bob Dylan and moas' ghosts. Natural History (October), 26-30.
Diamond, J. 1990. Pack rat historians. Natural History (February), 24-29.
Steadman, D. W. 1995. Prehistoric extinctions of Pacific island birds: biodiversity meets zooarchaeology. Science 267: 1123-1130.
Burney, D. A. 1993. Recent animal extinctions: recipes for disaster. Amer. Scientist 82: 530-541.
Janzen, D. H. 1986. Blurry catastrophes. Oikos 47: 1-2.
Myers, J. P. 1990. Soviet agriculture, done the American way. Amer. Birds 44: 363-364.
Anon. 1991. The case against crop chemicals. Science (1 February): 517.
Pimentel, D. et al. 1995. Environmental and economic costs of soil erosion and conservation benefits. Science 267: 1117-1122.
Anon. 1994. Pigs vs. Hawaii's rain forest. Nature Conservancy May/June: 38-39.
Ehrlich, P. R. 1990. People vs. birds. Amer. Birds 44: 193-195.
Ehrlich, P. R. 1982. Space age cargo cult. Defenders of Wildlife 57: 2-5.
Pulliam, H. R. 1994. Human population growth and the carrying capacity concept. Bull. Ecol. Soc. America: 141-154.