| Titre : | Journal of Ornithology 145(4) - OCT 2004 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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This paper analyses Charles Darwin's bird collection and the ornithological knowledge he derived from it during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle". Darwin collected 468 bird skins, 10 detached parts of the lesser rhea, and the nests and eggs of 16 di[...]
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B. A. Walther, Auteur ;
M. S. Wisz, Auteur ;
C. Rahbek, Auteur
The Basra reed warbler (Acrocephalus griseldis) and the cinereous bunting (Emberiza cineracea) are the only two Western Palearctic passerine bird species that overwinter in East Africa and are classified by BirdLife International as endangered a[...]
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B. U. Meyburg, Auteur ;
M. Gallardo, Auteur ;
C. Meyburg, Auteur ;
E. Dimitrova, Auteur
By means of satellite telemetry, the migrations of three young Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus) from France and Bulgaria were studied and data obtained (over 4,300 Argos locations) to describe movement patterns, timing of migration, rou[...]
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P. Vergara, Auteur ;
R. P. Schlatter, Auteur
The Magellanic woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus) is a vulnerable and poorly studied bird in the sub-antarctic deciduous and evergreen beech (Nothofagus) forests of South America. On Tierra del Fuego island (Chile), we compared Magellanic woo[...]
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V. Dietrich, Auteur ;
T. Schmoll, Auteur ;
W. Winkel, Auteur ;
J. T. Epplen, Auteur ;
T. Lubjuhn, Auteur
Despite substantial research effort, the benefits of female extra-pair matings in socially monogamous bird species remain elusive. The "good genes" hypothesis assumes that females engage in extra-pair copulations with males of superior genetic q[...]
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G. Mayr, Auteur
A partial skeleton of a new fossil loon (Aves, Gaviiformes), ?Colymboides metzleri n.sp., is described from the early Oligocene (Rupelian) of Frauenweiler in Germany. The new species resembles the early Miocene species Colymboides minutus in siz[...]
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P. Berthold, Auteur ;
M. Kaatz, Auteur ;
U. Querner, Auteur
During satellite-tracking investigations of 140 white storks (Ciconia ciconia), one individual, the long-term world record holder among birds, was followed along 12 migratory journeys over a period of 10 years. This long-term study confirms what[...]
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A. Gebauer, Auteur ;
J. Jacob, Auteur ;
M. Kaiser, Auteur ;
S. Eck, Auteur
Hume's ground jay (Pseudopodoces humilis), a species living in the high altitude steppes of the Qinghai-Tibet-Plateau (China), was traditionally thought to be a ground jay related to the genus Podoces (Corvidae). Recently, however, based on thre[...]
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T. Kumstatova, Auteur ;
T. Brinke, Auteur ;
S. Tomkova, Auteur ;
R. Fuchs, Auteur ;
A. Petrusek, Auteur
Habitat preferences of the tree pipit (Anthus trivialis) and the meadow pipit (A. pratensis; Passeriformes: Motacillidae) were observed during the years 1998-1999 at three localities in the Czech Republic; two with one pipit species only, and a [...]
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I. Stenberg, Auteur ;
O. Hogstad, Auteur
Male white-backed woodpeckers (Dendrocopos leucotos) in a 250-km(2) study area in western Norway are significantly larger than females in bill length and depth, wing and tarsus lengths, and bodyweight. During the winters (October-March 1985-2002[...]
