| Titre : | Journal of Ornithology 154(2) - APR 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Elizabeth A. Gow, Auteur ;
Annessa B. Musgrove, Auteur ;
Karen L. Wiebe, Auteur
Parents of altricial young alter provisioning effort based on offspring demand, but life-history differences between the sexes can influence the willingness of each parent to invest in a brood. Previous studies on sex-specific provisioning roles[...]
Article
G. S. Cabanne, Auteur ;
E. H. R. Sari, Auteur ;
D. Meyer, Auteur ;
F. R. Santos, Auteur ;
C. Y. Miyaki, Auteur
Studies of Atlantic forest (AF) organisms suggest that the historical dynamics of the forest cover produced demographically stable populations in its central region and unstable populations in the southern regions. We studied the mitochondrial p[...]
Article
Ivan Maggini, Auteur ;
Fernando Spina, Auteur ;
Christian C. Voigt, Auteur ;
Andrea Ferri, Auteur ;
Franz Bairlein, Auteur
In many species of migratory birds, individuals of different populations, sexes and age classes migrate at different times and manage their energy reserves according to their specific migratory strategies. In this study, we analyzed the migrator[...]
Article
Auxiliadora Villegas, Auteur ;
José A. Masero, Auteur ;
Casimiro Corbacho, Auteur ;
Jorge S. Gutiérrez, Auteur ;
Noelia Albano, Auteur ;
Juan M. Sánchez-Guzmán, Auteur
Environmental conditions during early development may differentially affect male and female offspring, and the effects of this sex-environment interaction in chick performance may be exaggerated under harsh conditions. In birds, most of the curr[...]
Article
Jiri Reif, Auteur ;
Kristyna Prylova, Auteur ;
Arnost L. Sizling, Auteur ;
Zdenek Vermouzek, Auteur ;
Karel Šťastný, Auteur ;
Vladimir Bejcek, Auteur
Recent major environmental changes could lead to homogenization in the composition of plant and animal communities, with generalist species replacing more specialized species, as well as to the increased domination of species adapted to warmer c[...]
Article
André F. Raine, Auteur ;
John J. Borg, Auteur ;
Helen Raine, Auteur ;
Richard A. Phillips, Auteur
Although the Yelkouan Shearwater Puffinus yelkouan is listed as near threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, with many populations in serious decline, there is little detailed information on the location of its[...]
Article
Klaus Fischer, Auteur ;
Ralf Busch, Auteur ;
Georg Fahl, Auteur ;
Markus Kunz, Auteur ;
Martin Knopf, Auteur
The Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) has experienced dramatic population declines in central Europe over past decades. To support evidence-based conservation strategies, we have analyzed habitat preferences, breeding success, and population developme[...]
Article
Zbigniew Kasprzykowski, Auteur ;
Marcin Polak, Auteur
The Eurasian Bittern Botaurus stellaris has a polygynous mating system where the nests of solitary and clumped females are located within a male territory. However, the factors that may favour the formation of nest clusters remain unknown. The f[...]
Article
Johanna Gronroos, Auteur ;
Martin Green, Auteur ;
Thomas Alerstam, Auteur
Migratory movements in air or water are strongly affected by wind and ocean currents and an animal which does not compensate for lateral flow will be drifted from its intended direction of movement. We investigated whether arctic shorebirds duri[...]
Article
Maria Paula Delgado, Auteur ;
Miguel A. Sanza, Auteur ;
Manuel B. Morales, Auteur ;
Juan Traba, Auteur ;
Desiree Rivera, Auteur
This study evaluates the relative contributions of landscape features and biotic (conspecific and heterospecific) relationships to habitat selection of three sympatric passerine species, Skylark (Alauda arvensis), Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra[...]
Article
Nicola Saino, Auteur ;
Maria Romano, Auteur ;
Manuela Caprioli, Auteur ;
Roberto Lardelli, Auteur ;
Pierfrancesco Micheloni, Auteur ;
Chiara Scandolara, Auteur ;
Diego Rubolini, Auteur ;
Mauro Fasola, Auteur
Molt and ecdysis are costly activities crucial to several animals. Most birds completely molt their plumage once per year. The diverse energy and aerodynamic costs of molt are expected to shape the evolution of molt schedules and rate of feather[...]
Article
Nora Vili, Auteur ;
Edina Nemeshazi, Auteur ;
Szilvia Kovacs, Auteur ;
Marton Horvath, Auteur ;
Lajos Kalmar, Auteur ;
Krisztian Szabo, Auteur
The development of genetic methods broadens the scope of non-invasive sample types. Large shed feathers are good material for genetic analyses, since they are easy to collect and a single feather can provide a sufficient amount of DNA for PCR-ba[...]
Article
Richard A. Noske, Auteur ;
Yeni A. Mulyani, Auteur ;
Penn Lloyd, Auteur
Nest predation rates often depend on how well a nest is concealed. Many tropical birds build their nests over water and/or build large pendant nests that closely resemble clumps of vegetation or flood debris, behaviours that are universally assu[...]
Article
Martin Paeckert, Auteur ;
Jochen Martens, Auteur ;
Wei Liang, Auteur ;
Yu-Cheng Hsu, Auteur ;
Yue-Hua Sun, Auteur
Article
Rob D. Sheldon, Auteur ;
Johannes Kamp, Auteur ;
Maxim A. Koshkin, Auteur ;
Ruslan S. Urazaliev, Auteur ;
Timur K. Iskakov, Auteur ;
Rob H. Field, Auteur ;
Albert R. Salemgareev, Auteur ;
Valery V. Khrokov, Auteur ;
Vasily A. Zhuly, Auteur ;
Sergey L. Sklyarenko, Auteur ;
Paul F. Donald, Auteur
We assessed demographic rates and numbers of the globally threatened Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius in central Kazakhstan from 2005 to 2012 to identify drivers of recent declines. Annual fecundity, estimated from a sample of over 1,000 nest[...]
Article
Christina Bauch, Auteur ;
Arndt H. J. Wellbrock, Auteur ;
Rolf Nagel, Auteur ;
Jan Rozman, Auteur ;
Klaudia Witte, Auteur
The use of haematophagous bugs (Triatominae) for minimally-invasive blood sampling has increasingly gained interest. We developed a small bug-containing dummy egg (size: 25 x 19 [mm]) for stress-free blood sampling during incubation in Common Sw[...]
Article
Blanca Roldan-Clara, Auteur ;
Joshua B. Lapergola, Auteur ;
Leonardo Chapa-Vargas, Auteur ;
Sophie Calme, Auteur
We estimated nest survival and evaluated factors affecting this demographic parameter for the Black Catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris), a poorly known mimid endemic to the Yucatan Peninsula. During the 2008 and 2009 breeding seasons, we monitor[...]
Article
Willem Bouten, Auteur ;
Edwin W. Baaij, Auteur ;
Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Auteur ;
Kees C. J. Camphuysen, Auteur
Tracking devices and bio-loggers provide crucial information on the ecology and behaviour of birds in their natural environment. An optimal tracking system should be lightweight, measure three-dimensional locations, enable flexible measurement s[...]
Article
Abdelkrim Si Bachir, Auteur ;
Haroun Chenchouni, Auteur ;
Nawel Djeddou, Auteur ;
Christophe Barbraud, Auteur ;
Regis Cereghino, Auteur ;
Frédéric Santoul, Auteur
We studied variations in the size of breeding colonies and in breeding performance of White Storks Ciconia ciconia in 2006-2008 in north-east Algeria. Each colony site was characterized using 12 environmental variables describing the physical en[...]
Article
Marc Bulte, Auteur ;
Franz Bairlein, Auteur
We tested endogenous migratory fuelling and nocturnal migratory restlessness in juvenile Northern Wheatears (Oenanthe oenanthe) from Alaska kept in captivity indoors. The birds showed a spontaneous seasonal, and biologically relevant, pattern of[...]
Article
Piotr Minias, Auteur ;
Tomasz Iciek, Auteur
The extent of post-juvenile moult in passerines is highly variable, but the causes and consequences of such variability remain poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that the extent and symmetry of post-juvenile moult of Greenfinches Cardue[...]
Article
Marcel M. Lambrechts, Auteur ;
Matthieu Abouladze, Auteur ;
Michel Bonnet, Auteur ;
Virginie Demeyrier, Auteur ;
Claire Doutrelant, Auteur ;
Virginie Faucon, Auteur ;
Gaelle le Prado, Auteur ;
Frederic Lidon, Auteur ;
Thierry Noell, Auteur ;
Pascal Pagano, Auteur ;
Philippe Perret, Auteur ;
Stephane Pouplard, Auteur ;
Remy Spitaliery, Auteur ;
Arnaud Gregoire, Auteur
The impact of nest-box characteristics (design, position, content) on decisions where to roost or nest have rarely been experimentally investigated. Older studies claimed that secondary cavity-exploiters, such as tits (Paridae), prefer smaller b[...]
Article
The epidermis and dermis are exposed in the tail region of the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx. The specimen under study, like many others of the genus and other air-breathing vertebrates discovered in the Jehol biota, shows strong opisthotonu[...]
Article
A. Barbosa, Auteur ;
M. J. Palacios, Auteur ;
J. J. Negro, Auteur ;
J. J. Cuervo, Auteur
The questions of whether carotenoids are mobilized from storage organs or the blood during food shortages or in stressful situations and the amount of carotenoids available in these situations remain contentious. We study the amount of carotenoi[...]
Article
Jean-Baptiste Thiebot, Auteur ;
Henri Weimerskirch, Auteur
Seabirds associations with marine mammals have been shown to be an efficient way by which the seabirds can detect and access prey patches. However, these associations have been documented locally in the literature and their relevance at the ecos[...]
Article
Keriann M. Dubina, Auteur ;
Brian D. Peer, Auteur
Brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) remove host eggs in conjunction with parasitism, and also peck and destroy host eggs and nestlings in nests they have apparently not parasitized. Egg and nestling destruction by Brown-headed[...]
Article
Jonathan A. Moran, Auteur ;
Leonard I. Wassenaar, Auteur ;
J. Cam Finlay, Auteur ;
Cathie Hutcheson, Auteur ;
Leigh Ann Isaac, Auteur ;
Susan M. Wethington, Auteur
Rufous Hummingbirds (Selasphorus rufus) undertake an annual migration between breeding grounds in western North America and wintering grounds in south-central Mexico, with a small wintering population on the Gulf Coast of the USA. However, littl[...]
Article
Volker Salewski, Auteur ;
Martin Flade, Auteur ;
Anatolii Poluda, Auteur ;
Grzegorz Kiljan, Auteur ;
Felix Liechti, Auteur ;
Simeon Lisovski, Auteur ;
Steffen Hahn, Auteur
The globally-threatened Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola) breeds in Europe and spends the northern winter in sub-Saharan West Africa. We attached 30 geolocators to breeding birds in the central Ukraine in 2010. Three geolocators which co[...]
Article
Miguel Ângelo Marini, Auteur ;
Morgane Barbet-Massin, Auteur ;
Leonardo E. Lopes, Auteur ;
Frédéric Jiguet, Auteur
The Cock-tailed Tyrant (Alectrurus tricolor) is a habitat-sensitive and vulnerable bird found in South American grasslands. It is assumed to be migratory but no detailed analysis of distributional records per season has been made. Because of a l[...]
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Autumn survival inferred from wing age ratios: Wigeon juvenile survival half that of adults at best?
Matthieu Guillemain, Auteur ;
Anthony D. Fox, Auteur ;
Hannu Poysa, Auteur ;
Veli-Matti Vaananen, Auteur ;
Thomas Kjaer Christensen, Auteur ;
Patrick Triplet, Auteur ;
Vincent Schricke, Auteur ;
Fränzi Korner-Nievergelt, Auteur
Measures of first-year autumn mortality rates are important parameters for understanding population dynamics, but have been hitherto unavailable for dabbling ducks in Europe, because most ducks are ringed in winter. We used the temporal change i[...]
