• Johnson, J.B., D.B. Burt and T. J. DeWitt. 2008. Form, function and fitness: pathways to survival. Evolution 62:1243–1251.

• Burt, D.B., P.F. Coulter, and J. D. Ligon.  2007. Evolution of Parental Care and Cooperative Breeding. Pp. 295-325. In Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Aves (Birds). (Jamieson, B. G. M. ed.), Science Publishers.

• Yuan, H.-W., D. B. Burt, L.-P. Wang, W.-L. Chang, M.-K. Wang, C.-R. Chiou and T.-S. Ding.  2006. Colony site choice of blue-tailed bee-eaters: Influences of soil, vegetation and water quality. Journal of Natural History 40:485-493.

• Conner, R.N., D. Saenz, and D. B. Burt.  2006.  Relationships among arthropods, herbaceous-shrub layer vegetation, and soil in an early succession pine stand. Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society 39:3-7. PDF

• Conner, R. N., D. Saenz, R. R. Schaefer, J. R. McCormick, D. C. Rudolph, and D. B. Burt.  2005.  Rainfall, El Niño, and Reproduction of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers. Southeastern Naturalist 4:347-354

• Burt, D.B. 2004.  Plumage-based phylogenetic analyses of the Merops bee-eaters. Ibis 146: 481-492.

• Conner, R.N., D. Saenz, R. R. Schaefer, J. R. McCormick, D. C. Rudolph and D. B. Burt. 2004. Group size and nest success in Red-cockaded Woodpeckers in the West Gulf Coast Plain:  helpers make a difference. Journal of Field Ornithology 75:74-78.

• Dornak, L.L, D.B. Burt, D.W. Coble and R.N. Conner.  2004.  Relationships between habitat and snag characteristics and the reproductive success of the brown-headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) in eastern Texas. Southeastern Naturalist 3:683-694.

• Ligon, J.D. and D.B. Burt. 2004. Evolutionary origins. Pp. 5-34. In Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds, 2nd ed. (Koenig, W.D. and J. L. Dickinson, eds.) Cambridge University Press.

• McCormick, J. R., R. N. Conner, D. B. Burt and D. Saenz. 2004.  Influence of habitat and number of nestlings on partial brood loss in Red-cockaded Woodpeckers. Pp. 624-629. In Proceeding of the Fourth Red-cockaded Woodpecker Symposium (Costa, R. and S.J. Daniels, eds.) Hancock House Publishers, Blaine, WA.

• McCormick, J. R., R. N. Conner, D. Saenz and D. B. Burt.  2004.  Evidence of red-cockaded woodpecker nestling displacement by southern flying squirrels. Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society 37:8-9.

• Burt, D.B.  2002.  Social and breeding biology of bee-eaters in Thailand.  Wilson Bulletin 114: 275-279.

• Johnson, J. B., D. Saenz, D. B. Burt and R. N. Conner.  2002.  An automated technique for monitoring nocturnal avian vocalizations. Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society 35:24-29.

• Burt, D.B.  2001.  Evolutionary stasis, constraint and other terminology describing evolutionary patterns. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72:509-517.

• McCormick, J. R., R. N. Conner, D. Saenz and D. B. Burt. 2001.   Delayed reproduction of translocated Red-cockaded Woodpeckers. Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society 34:17-20.

• Herb Jr., A. and D.B. Burt. 2000.  Influence of habitat use-patterns on cooperative breeding in the Brown-headed Nuthatch. Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society 33:25-36.

• Burt, D.B.  1996. Habitat-use patterns in cooperative and non-cooperative breeding birds:  testing predictions with Western Scrub-jays.  Wilson Bulletin 108:712-727.

• Burt, D.B., and A.T. Peterson. 1993.  Biology of the cooperative-breeding Scrub Jays (Aphelocoma coerulescens) of Oaxaca, Mexico. Auk, 110: 207-214.

• Peterson, A.T., and D.B. Burt.  1992.  Phylogenetic history of social evolution and habitat use in the Aphelocoma jays. Anim. Behav., 44: 859-866.

• Burt, D., D.B. Burt, T.C. Maxwell, and R.C. Dawkins.  1987.  First record of the Flammulated Owl (Otus flammeolus) in the Davis Mountains. Texas J. Sci., 39: 293-294.

• Burt, D.B., D. Burt, T.C. Maxwell, and D.G. Tarter.  1987.  Clapper Rail (Rallus longirostris) in west-central Texas. Texas J. Sci., 39: 378.

D. Brent Burt, Ph.D.

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