Selected Publications:

    Below are some of my publications, most those that have been published in peer reviewed journals.  One of the common features of many university professors today is to make some of their salient papers readily available to others in a PDF format, although my list is meager rather than salient.  Hence, to give my students some experience in this practice, I have put my most recent paper as well as an older paper up on PDF for them to download and read.

Sakai, Walter H. In press.  Long-billed Hermit (Phaethornis superciliosus) caught in Golden Orb-spider (Nephilia clavipes) Web.  Ornitologia Neotropical PDF

Sakai, Walter. H. 2006.  Polydactyly in a Vaux's Swift.  The Wilson Journal Ornithology.  118(3):424-426.  PDF

Leong, Kingston, Walter H. Sakai, W. Bremer, D. Feuerstein, and G. Yoshimura.  2004.  Analysis of the pattern of distribution and abundance of monarch butterfly's (Danaus plexippus) overwintering sites along the California coastline.  IN  Karen S. Oberhauser and Michelle J. Solensky, eds.  Monarch Butterfly Biology and Conservation.

Sakai, Walter H. and C. John Ralph.  2002.  A Tabular Format of Pyle's Ageing and Sexing Method for Landbirds.  North American Bird Bander  27(3):77-90.

Sakai, Walter H. 1994.  Avian predation on the monarch butterfly [Danaus plexippus L.:  Nymphalidae:  Lepidoptera] at a California overwintering site.  Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society  48(2):  148-156.  PDF Sakai comments

Sakai, Walter H.  1993.  Notes on Danaus gilippus strigosus (Nymphalidae:  Danainae) in southern California.  Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 47(2):160-161.