| Titre : | Journal of Ornithology 150(3) - JUL 2009 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Swen C. Renner, Auteur ;
Pamela C. Rasmussen, Auteur ;
John H. Rappole, Auteur ;
Thein Aung, Auteur ;
Myint Aung, Auteur
The little-known taxon Cyornis [banyumas] magnirostris has long been treated as a race of the widespread Hill Blue Flycatcher C. banyumas, with which it was thought to be allopatric during the breeding season. On the basis of morphology, magniro[...]
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Maria Virginia Petry, Auteur ;
Lucas Krueger, Auteur ;
Vanda Simone da Silva Fonseca, Auteur ;
Jaqueline Brummelhaus, Auteur ;
Roberta da Cruz Piuco, Auteur
Cory's Shearwater, Calonectris diomedea, is a pelagic seabird that winters in the waters off the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. Elsewhere, its diet is comprised mostly of fish and cephalopods, but dietary details out of the breed[...]
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Incubation behaviour of the Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis) in an alpine ecosystem of Central Europe
Petr Kovarik, Auteur ;
Václav Pavel, Auteur ;
Bohumír Chutný, Auteur
Incubation behaviour of the Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis) was investigated in mountainous conditions in Central Europe (the Krkonoe Mountains of the Czech Republic), in relation to the time of day and weather. Twenty-four-hour recordings of in[...]
Article
Teresa Catry, Auteur ;
Jaime Albino Ramos, Auteur ;
David Monticelli, Auteur ;
John Bowler, Auteur ;
Tony Jupiter, Auteur ;
Matthieu Le Corre, Auteur
The White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus breeding population of Aride Island, Seychelles, has experienced a strong decline in the recent past. To predict the future trends of the White-tailed Tropicbird population on Aride Island and unders[...]
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Guillaume Peron, Auteur ;
Pierre-André Crochet, Auteur
Avian mixed-species flocks are a dominant feature of tropical moist forests, yet their cost-benefit balance and habitat dependence in Africa are not fully documented. We recorded the composition of mixed-species bird flocks in a pristine Afrotro[...]
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The Spotted Barbtail (Premnoplex brunnescens) inhabits the understory of humid montane forests in Central and South America. Apart from basic information on eggs and nest form, little has been published on its breeding ecology. Using temperature[...]
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A. C. Norte, Auteur ;
J. A. Ramos, Auteur ;
J. P. Sousa, Auteur ;
B. C. Sheldon, Auteur
In recent years, an increasing number of studies have focused on the ranges of variation of health related biochemical and haematological parameters in wildlife, but information is still scarce for enzymatic activities which can be extremely imp[...]
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Pasquale Moneglia, Auteur ;
Aurélien Besnard, Auteur ;
Jean-Claude Thibault, Auteur ;
Roger Prodon, Auteur
The Corsican Nuthatch Sitta whiteheadi is a bird endemic to Corsica Island and has a very small population. Its habitat, Corsican pine Pinus nigra laricio forest, is currently restricted to less than 16,000 ha and is threatened by forest fires. [...]
Article
Jasmina Muzinic, Auteur ;
Jasenka Ferber Bogdan, Auteur ;
Bruce Beehler, Auteur
The prayer book The Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as The Farnese Hours, was illustrated by the Croatian miniaturist, Julije KloviA double dagger, between 1539 and 1546 in Rome. In this masterpiece of Renaissance miniature art, KloviA d[...]
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D. P. Padilla, Auteur ;
A. Gonzalez-Castro, Auteur ;
C. Nieves, Auteur ;
M. Nogales, Auteur
The seasonal diet and prey selection of the Southern Grey Shrike (Lanius meridionalis) was studied in two different insular habitats: shrub environments of the Canary Islands in coastal and high mountain zones. We measured, in each season, food [...]
Article
Michael Beaulieu, Auteur ;
Anne-Mathilde Thierry, Auteur ;
Yvon Le Maho, Auteur ;
Yan Ropert-Coudert, Auteur ;
Andre Ancel, Auteur
We investigated alloparental interactions and conditions which could facilitate or prevent the expression of alloparental behaviours in Ad,lie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), a long-lived seabird which nests in high-density colonies around Antarc[...]
Article
Peter Sunde, Auteur ;
Kasper Thorup, Auteur ;
Lars B. Jacobsen, Auteur ;
Miriam H. Holsegard-Rasmussen, Auteur ;
Nina Ottessen, Auteur ;
Susanne Svenne, Auteur ;
Carsten Rahbek, Auteur
Knowledge of a species' spatial behaviour is essential for understanding its behavioural ecology, as well as a prerequisite to planning of conservation strategies. The Little Owl (Athene noctua) has shown a substantial decline in north-western E[...]
Article
Wouter F. D. van Dongen, Auteur ;
Raoul A. Mulder, Auteur
Considerable variation exists in rates of extra-pair paternity between species, and across and within populations of the same species. Explanations for this variation include ecological (e.g. breeding synchrony), morphological (e.g. ornamentatio[...]
Article
Eszter Szoellosi, Auteur ;
Balazs Rosivall, Auteur ;
Dennis Hasselquist, Auteur ;
Janos Toeroek, Auteur
Plumage ornamentation often signals the quality of males and, therefore, female birds may choose elaborately ornamented mates to increase their fitness. Such mate choice may confer both direct and indirect benefits to the offspring. Males with e[...]
Article
Milica Požgayová, Auteur ;
Petr Procházka, Auteur ;
Marcel Honza, Auteur
Nest predation and brood parasitism are costly for nest owners, and natural selection should therefore favour the evolution of parental counterdefences. We addressed the question of whether Blackcaps Sylvia atricapilla change their incubation be[...]
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Keith W. Larson, Auteur ;
Keith A. Hobson, Auteur
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Adeline Loyau, Auteur ;
Dirk S. Schmeller, Auteur
We tested the cross-amplification of 26 microsatellites developed for passerines and an additional three developed for Gallinula species in eight European Coots from two populations. Sixteen microsatellite markers successfully amplified, of whic[...]
Article
Henrik Mouritsen, Auteur ;
Gesa Feenders, Auteur ;
Arne Hegemann, Auteur ;
Miriam Liedvogel, Auteur
Article
J. W. Duckworth, Auteur
Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus proregulus) is a common breeding bird above 700 m in the forests of the Myohyang range, Korea. Within the largely natural forest are several temple gardens, four of which at 140-520 m held territorial Pallas's[...]
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Matthieu Guillemain, Auteur ;
Richard Hearn, Auteur ;
Roy King, Auteur ;
Michel Gauthier-Clerc, Auteur ;
Géraldine Simon, Auteur ;
Alain Caizergues, Auteur
The "body size hypothesis" predicts that if individuals of a population migrate different distances from the breeding to the wintering grounds, the distance should be related to the differential ability to cope with adverse conditions, with larg[...]
Article
S. James Reynolds, Auteur ;
Graham R. Martin, Auteur ;
Colin P. Wearn, Auteur ;
B. John Hughes, Auteur
Sub-lingual oral fistulas are a condition first reported in New Zealand Stitchbirds (Notiomystis cincta) in which a lesion develops on the periphery of the mandible in the oral cavity and a fistula develops through which the tongue protrudes. We[...]
Article
T. Szep, Auteur ;
K. A. Hobson, Auteur ;
J. Vallner, Auteur ;
S. E. Piper, Auteur ;
B. Kovacs, Auteur ;
D. Z. Szabo, Auteur ;
A. P. Moller, Auteur
Analyses of stable isotopes and trace elements in feathers may provide important information about location and habitat use during molt, thereby enabling the investigation of migratory connectivity and its ecological consequences in bird species[...]
