| Titre : | Ringing & Migration 32(1) - January 2, 2017 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/01/2017 |
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John Sanders, Auteur
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In the early 1990s, Barnacle Geese Branta leucopsis started wintering regularly on the Dyfi Estuary, Wales, increasing to 380 birds in 2012. To inform future site-management decisions, 25 birds were caught and fitted with colour rings in Novembe[...]
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Christopher J. Heward, Auteur ;
Andrew Lowe, Auteur ;
Andrew N. Hoodless, Auteur
We describe a method for mist-netting Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola in the breeding season using a remote-control playback lure and a decoy. Nineteen roding woodcock were caught in 39 sessions in 2016. A GLM, in which length of mist-net w[...]
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Mauro Giammarino, Auteur ;
Piero Quatto, Auteur
We propose a functional data analysis (FDA) approach based on capture–recapture data to fit growth curves to wild Mallard Anas platyrhynchos. For this purpose, growth curves are provided from weight measurements through smoothing based on a suit[...]
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John W. Mallord, Auteur ;
Christopher J. Orsman, Auteur ;
Japheth T. Roberts, Auteur ;
Roger Q. Skeen, Auteur ;
Aly Issa Maiga, Auteur ;
Oumar Baro Issa, Auteur
We provide the first evidence of Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix returning to the same sites in sub-Saharan Africa between years (recurrence).
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Ruth E. Crawford, Auteur ;
Jed A. Long, Auteur
In this study, we use satellite-tracking data from five juvenile Scottish Ospreys Pandion haliaetus to explore habitat preferences at stopover and wintering sites. Daily activity patterns were analysed using a binomial generalised linear model. [...]
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Richard K. Broughton, Auteur ;
Peter J. Alker, Auteur
Confident separation of Marsh Tits and Willow Tits remains a challenge in Britain due to the similar appearance of the local races of both species. Several criteria are available to assist the identification of birds in the hand, but none is com[...]
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Seung-Gu Kang, Auteur ;
Wee-Haeng Hur, Auteur
In the family Accipitridae, the primary feathers (p) are moulted sequentially from p1 (innermost primary) outwards to p10. In comparison, the primaries are moulted divergently in the family Falconidae, starting from p4 (and sometimes p5), and si[...]
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Ivan Literák, Auteur ;
Petr Kafka, Auteur ;
Josef Vrána, Auteur ;
Frantisek Pojer, Auteur
Black Storks Ciconia nigra breeding in Europe use two main migratory routes to winter in Africa: a western route over Gibraltar and an eastern route through Turkey and Israel. A broad area of migratory divide exists in central Europe. We examine[...]
