| Titre : | Journal of Ornithology 155(2) - APR 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Millions of years of biological evolution have produced efficient materials and structures that are a source of inspiration to engineers. The paper reviews the overall design principles in the feather rachis and elaborates upon recent functional[...]
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Juan Diego Ibanez-Alamo, Auteur ;
Francisco Ruiz-Raya, Auteur ;
Gianluca Roncalli, Auteur ;
Manuel Soler, Auteur
The removal of nestling feces by adults is a common parental behavior in birds. However, this behavior is still poorly understood despite being an important component of parental care, especially in altricial bird species. The threat of nest pre[...]
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Veronica L. D'Amico, Auteur ;
Patricia M. González, Auteur ;
Allan J. Baker, Auteur ;
Deborah M. Buehler, Auteur ;
Marcelo Bertellotti, Auteur
To investigate possible reasons for recent declines in Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) populations we surveyed for selected pathogens in Red Knots captured in San Antonio Bay, Argentina, on their northward migration during the period 2006-2011.[...]
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Kevin C. R. Kerr, Auteur ;
Alison Cloutier, Auteur ;
Allan J. Baker, Auteur
The functional constraint imposed on exonic sequences increases marker universality and improves sequence alignment accuracy, yet introns have been favoured recently in Avian Tree of Life studies because of the increased sequence coverage that w[...]
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Monamie Ringhofer, Auteur ;
Toshikazu Hasegawa, Auteur
To maximize fitness, animals choose habitats by using a combination of direct resource cues, such as the quality and quantity of safe breeding sites or food resources, and indirect social cues, such as the presence or breeding performance of con[...]
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Sara Pardal, Auteur ;
José A. Alves, Auteur ;
Libia Ze-Ze, Auteur ;
Hugo Osorio, Auteur ;
Afonso Rocha, Auteur ;
Ricardo J. Lopes, Auteur ;
Pete Potts, Auteur ;
Fatima Amaro, Auteur ;
Francisco Santiago-Quesada, Auteur ;
Juan M. Sánchez-Guzmán, Auteur ;
Jose Masero, Auteur ;
Maria J. Alves, Auteur ;
Javier Pérez-Tris, Auteur ;
Jaime A. Ramos, Auteur ;
Luisa Mendes, Auteur
Migratory shorebirds are exposed to a wide range of pathogens along their migratory flyways, but their capacity to acquire or spread pathogens beyond endemic areas is poorly known. We focused on the spillover and acquisition of mosquito-borne pa[...]
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Ashley Herrod, Auteur ;
Meaghan King, Auteur ;
Dean Ingwersen, Auteur ;
Rohan H. Clarke, Auteur
The use of tracking devices to monitor the movements of parrots can benefit conservation and management efforts in species for which there is scant information on their habitat use and distribution. Before such studies can proceed, there is a cl[...]
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Phil Shaw, Auteur ;
Will Cresswell, Auteur
During incubation, tropical passerines have been shown to have lower levels of nest attentiveness than their counterparts at north temperate latitudes, spending a higher percentage of daylight time off the nest. This difference has been interpre[...]
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James W. Rivers, Auteur ;
Andrea L. Liebl, Auteur ;
Lynn B. Martin, Auteur ;
Matthew G. Betts, Auteur
Glucocorticoids are thought to be related to habitat quality and may provide information about the relative health of individuals. We used a model selection approach to test whether plasma glucocorticoid levels of the Swainson's thrush (Catharus[...]
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Flavia Geiger, Auteur ;
Arne Hegemann, Auteur ;
Maurits Gleichman, Auteur ;
Heiner Flinks, Auteur ;
Geert R. De Snoo, Auteur ;
Sebastian Prinz, Auteur ;
B. Irene Tieleman, Auteur ;
Frank Berendse, Auteur
In recent decades, Skylark (Alauda arvensis) populations in Europe have declined sharply due to agricultural intensification. Insufficient reproduction rates are one reason. Increased winter mortality may also be important, but studies outside t[...]
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Mateusz Ledwon, Auteur ;
Jacek Betleja, Auteur ;
Tadeusz Stawarczyk, Auteur ;
Grzegorz Neubauer, Auteur
The Whiskered Tern population in Poland has rapidly increased from 40 breeding pairs in 1990 to over 1,600 in 2007, with strongest local population in the Upper Vistula River Valley. Owing to rather low pre-breeding and adult apparent survival r[...]
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Ortwin Schwerdtfeger, Auteur ;
Michael Wink, Auteur
Tengmalm's Owls (Aegolius funereus) (TO) exhibit a pronounced sexual size dimorphism in which females are bigger than males, which have to provide food for the breeding female and for the brood. Clutch size and breeding success are strongly infl[...]
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Masaru Hasegawa, Auteur ;
Emi Arai, Auteur ;
Mamoru Watanabe, Auteur ;
Masahiko Nakamura, Auteur
The European Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica rustica is a model system for studying female mate choice for indirect benefits, as the long tail of males, the target of female mate choice, is positively related to male viability. However, situations [...]
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Tharmalingam Ramesh, Auteur ;
Colleen T. Downs, Auteur
Conservation of forest associated birds depends on appropriate prediction of habitat change effects on their distribution patterns. We investigated a variety of land use gradients in an attempt to determine which factors influence site occupancy[...]
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Jill A. Awkerman, Auteur ;
Sebastian Cruz, Auteur ;
Carolina Proano, Auteur ;
Kathryn P. Huyvaert, Auteur ;
Gustavo Jimenez Uzcategui, Auteur ;
Andres Baquero, Auteur ;
Martin Wikelski, Auteur ;
David J. Anderson, Auteur
To determine the proximate consequences of the limited breeding distribution of the critically endangered Waved Albatross (Phoebastria irrorata), we present continuous breeding season GPS tracks highlighting differences in behaviour, destination[...]
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Jos C. E. W. Hooijmeijer, Auteur ;
Robert E. Gill, Auteur ;
Daniel M. Mulcahy, Auteur ;
T. Lee Tibbitts, Auteur ;
Rosemarie Kentie, Auteur ;
Gerrit J. Gerritsen, Auteur ;
Leo W. Bruinzeel, Auteur ;
David C. Tijssen, Auteur ;
Christopher M. Harwood, Auteur ;
Theunis Piersma, Auteur
Satellite telemetry has become a common technique to investigate avian life-histories, but whether such tagging will affect fitness is a critical unknown. In this study, we evaluate multi-year effects of implanted transmitters on migratory timin[...]
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Gang Song, Auteur ;
Per Alström, Auteur ;
Yongwen Zhang, Auteur ;
Xuebin Gao, Auteur ;
Huisheng Gong, Auteur ;
Paul I. Holt, Auteur ;
Qing Quan, Auteur ;
Zuohua Yin, Auteur ;
Fumin Lei, Auteur
The Blackthroat (or Blackthroated Blue Robin) Calliope obscura (previously Luscinia obscura) is one of the world's rarest "robins". It is extremely poorly known, with only a handful of records since it was firstly described in the 1890s. In 2011[...]
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J. Roberto Sosa-Lopez, Auteur ;
Daniel J. Mennill, Auteur
Empirical descriptions of vocal behaviour are important for understanding avian biology. In this study, we provide the first detailed analysis of the vocal behaviour of the Brown-throated Wren (Troglodytes brunneicollis), a neotropical songbird [...]
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J. Roberto Sosa-Lopez, Auteur ;
Daniel J. Mennill, Auteur
Documenting the diversity of vocal behaviour across different avian taxa is key to understanding the ecology and evolution of complex behaviours. Unique to Cozumel Island in the Mexican Caribbean Sea, the Cozumel Wren (Troglodytes aedon beani) p[...]
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Tamara Emmenegger, Auteur ;
Patrick Mayet, Auteur ;
Olivier Duriez, Auteur ;
Steffen Hahn, Auteur
Individual migrants often fly detours when travelling between breeding and non-breeding sites, resulting in specific changes in flight directions along a migratory leg. Western European populations of the European Roller (Coracias garrulus), the[...]
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Vanesa L. De Pietri, Auteur ;
R. Paul Scofield, Auteur
We describe novel material of a small fossil burhinid (Stone-curlew, thick-knee; Aves: Charadriiformes) from the late Oligocene (ca 23 Ma) of Coderet-Bransat in the Allier Basin of central France. This site is one of the renowned Saint-Gerand-le[...]
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Toon Spanhove, Auteur ;
Tom Callens, Auteur ;
Caspar A. Hallmann, Auteur ;
Petri Pellikka, Auteur ;
Luc Lens, Auteur
High levels of nest predation influence the population dynamics of many tropical birds, especially when deforestation alters nest predator communities. The consequences of tropical forest fragmentation on nest predation, however, remain poorly u[...]
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J. Kralj, Auteur ;
S. Barisic, Auteur ;
D. Cikovic, Auteur ;
V. Tutis, Auteur ;
N. Deans van Swelm, Auteur
The Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis is generally considered to be sedentary and dispersive, with long-distance dispersal of young birds developing after the 1970s. In this paper, we present the analysis of the movement of the Yellow-legged [...]
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Gabriel E. Machovsky-Capuska, Auteur ;
Mark E. Hauber, Auteur ;
Mariela Dassis, Auteur ;
Eric Libby, Auteur ;
Martin C. Wikelski, Auteur ;
Rob Schuckard, Auteur ;
David S. Melville, Auteur ;
Willie Cook, Auteur ;
Michelle Houston, Auteur ;
David Raubenheimer, Auteur
Patchily distributed marine pelagic prey present considerable challenges to predatory seabirds, including Gannets (Morus spp.) departing from large breeding colonies. Here, for the first time, we used GPS data loggers to provide detailed spatial[...]
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J. C. Castro-Caro, Auteur ;
I. C. Barrio, Auteur ;
F. S. Tortosa, Auteur
Extensive farming practices and landscape heterogeneity promote biodiversity in agroecosystems. However, the effect of such practices might be landscape dependent; specifically, the effect might be greatest where the loss of heterogeneity has be[...]
