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Robert W. Furness, AuteurA review of the literature identified 21 causes of bias in mist-net catches of birds. In some cases there is strong evidence of the existence of bias and some quantification of its magnitude, but most causes of bias have not been investigated in[...]
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Robert W. Furness, AuteurSpecial Protection Areas (SPAs) designated under the EU Birds Directive have improved the conservation status of many terrestrial bird species in Europe, but protecting breeding sites may be less effective for highly mobile birds such as seabird[...]
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Daniel T. Johnston, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Alexandra M. C. Robbins, Auteur ; Mark A. Taggart, Auteur ; Glen Tyler, Auteur ; Elizabeth A. Masden, AuteurCapsule: Using ring recovery records collected in Britain and Ireland from 1935 to 2015, we investigated philopatry and dispersal in Black Guillemots Cepphus grylle ringed as nestlings and recovered at breeding age during the breeding season. Le[...]
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Bianca P. Vieira, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Ruedi G. Nager, AuteurIdentifying sexes in birds from visual observations could be a useful and inexpensive method. While sexual dichromatism and ornaments are readily used by observers, sexual size dimorphism can also be used to identify sexes in some bird species. [...]
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Bianca P. Vieira, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Ruedi G. Nager, AuteurMethods to obtain moult data from wild birds have not changed much over the last century and most studies still depend on checking museum specimens or capturing birds. Here we assess the applicability of systematic field photography for detectin[...]
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Simon Foster, Auteur ; Robert L. Swann, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurCapsule: Long-term population trends of gulls on the Isle of Canna, Scotland, showed a correlation to fish tonnage landed in a nearby port.Aims: To assess whether gull numbers and breeding success at Canna have been influenced by the amount of f[...]
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Chris B. Thaxter, Auteur ; Viola H. Ross-Smith, Auteur ; Jacquie A. Clark, Auteur ; Nigel A. Clark, Auteur ; Greg J. Conway, Auteur ; Elizabeth A. Masden, Auteur ; Helen M. Wade, Auteur ; Eliza H. K. Leat, Auteur ; Sheila C. Gear, Auteur ; Mike Marsh, Auteur ; Chris Booth, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Steve C. Votier, Auteur ; Niall H. K. Burton, AuteurTelemetry has become an important method for studying the biology and ecology of animals. However, the impact of tracking devices and their method of attachment on different species across multiple temporal scales has seldom been assessed. We co[...]
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Large-scale and long-term ringing and cohort colour ringing of chicks, combined with trapping of immatures on clubs and adults on nests, allows the age of first breeding by Great Skuas Stercorarius skua to be investigated. Modal and median age o[...]
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Large-scale and long-term ringing and cohort colour ringing of chicks, combined with trapping of immatures on clubs and adults on nests, allows the age of first breeding by Great Skuas Stercorarius skua to be investigated. Modal and median age o[...]
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Ellen Magnusdottir, Auteur ; Eliza H. K. Leat, Auteur ; Sophie Bourgeon, Auteur ; Jón E. Jónsson, Auteur ; Richard A. Phillips, Auteur ; Hallvard Strom, Auteur ; Aevar Petersen, Auteur ; Sveinn A. Hanssen, Auteur ; Jan O. Bustnes, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurCapsule Great Skuas Stercorarius skua wintering in different areas spent different amounts of time in flight (foraging or searching for food) and so may be experiencing different feeding conditions. Aims To compare the daily percentage of time s[...]
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Ellen Magnusdottir, Auteur ; Eliza H. K. Leat, Auteur ; Sophie Bourgeon, Auteur ; Hallvard Strom, Auteur ; Aevar Petersen, Auteur ; Richard A. Phillips, Auteur ; Sveinn A. Hanssen, Auteur ; Jan O. Bustnes, Auteur ; Pall Hersteinsson, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurCapsule Great Skuas Stercorarius skua breeding in Scotland, Iceland, and Norway, winter in different areas. Aims To assess the winter distribution of adult Great Skuas breeding in different countries. Methods Geolocation data-loggers were deploy[...]
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Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Barbara Mable, Auteur ; Fiona Savory, Auteur ; Kate Griffiths, Auteur ; Stephen R. Baillie, Auteur ; Martin Heubeck, AuteurCapsule Morphometrics, plumage and mitochondrial DNA of Common Eiders Somateria mollissima in Shetland indicate that these birds should be classified as subspecies faeroeensis. Aims To test whether molecular data support the suggestion based on [...]
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Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Barbara Mable, Auteur ; Fiona Savory, Auteur ; Kate Griffiths, Auteur ; Stephen R. Baillie, Auteur ; Martin Heubeck, AuteurCapsule Morphometrics, plumage and mitochondrial DNA of Common Eiders Somateria mollissima in Shetland indicate that these birds should be classified as subspecies faeroeensis. Aims To test whether molecular data support the suggestion based on [...]
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Will Miles, Auteur ; Sarah Money, Auteur ; Richard Luxmoore, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurCapsule When moonlight levels are low, shearwaters and storm-petrels are attracted to artificial lighting at night at St Kilda and may be killed, but impacts are lessened by deliberate light reduction measures. Aims To determine the scale and im[...]
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Will Miles, Auteur ; Sarah Money, Auteur ; Richard Luxmoore, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurCapsule When moonlight levels are low, shearwaters and storm-petrels are attracted to artificial lighting at night at St Kilda and may be killed, but impacts are lessened by deliberate light reduction measures. Aims To determine the scale and im[...]
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Ailsa J. McKenzie, Auteur ; Steve J. Petty, Auteur ; Mike P. Toms, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurCapsule Siskins and Coal Tits were present in gardens more often in years of poor Sitka Spruce cone crops, with synchrony across the UK. Aims To examine how the relative abundances of Siskins and Coal Tits in a garden in western Scotland varied [...]
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Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Gunnar T. Hallgrimsson, Auteur ; William A. Montevecchi, Auteur ; David Fifield, Auteur ; Ulrike Kubetzki, Auteur ; Bettina Mendel, Auteur ; Stefan Garthe, AuteurThe Gannet Morus bassanus is one of the seabirds considered most at risk from collision mortality at offshore wind farms in UK waters, so a better understanding of migration routes informs assessments of risk for different populations. Deploymen[...]
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Leandro Bugoni, Auteur ; Tatiana S. Neves, Auteur ; Fabiano V. Peppes, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurMost studies of seabirds that involve trapping and marking birds are carried out at breeding colonies. This bias toward the breeding period and colony-based research is partially caused by difficulties in capturing birds at sea. From 2005 to 200[...]
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Stephen A. Oswald, Auteur ; Stuart Bearhop, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Brian Huntley, Auteur ; Keith C. Hamer, AuteurBirds such as great skuas Catharacta skua adapted for successful breeding at high latitudes may experience problems of heat dissipation in mild climates. Great skuas spend time bathing at freshwater sites close to breeding territories and here, [...]
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Marianne C. James, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Alan S. Bowman, Auteur ; Ken J. Forbes, Auteur ; Lucy Gilbert, AuteurBorrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) is the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, the most common tick-borne zoonosis of humans in Europe and North America. Here, we assessed the relative importance of different passerine bird species as tick h[...]
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Euan N. Furness, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurAlthough studies of wing length in many bird species show longer wings in adults than in juveniles, and increases in wing length among immature age classes of long-lived birds, evidence for an increase in wing length among adult small passerines[...]
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Adam D. P. Cross, Auteur ; Jonas Hentati-Sundberg, Auteur ; Henrik Osterblom, Auteur ; Rona A. R. McGill, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurThe presence of one of the largest colonies of House Martins in Europe on the small island of Stora Karlso, Sweden, led us to investigate the source of their food by analysis of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen. Carbon isotopic values of H[...]
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Mark Bolton, Auteur ; Andrea L. Smith, Auteur ; Elena Gomez-Diaz, Auteur ; Vicki L. Friesen, Auteur ; Renata Medeiros, Auteur ; Joël Bried, Auteur ; Jose L. Roscales, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurThe existence of two seasonally distinct breeding populations of Oceanodroma storm-petrels in the Azores islands was first documented in 1996. The discovery of morphological differences between the populations led to the suggestion that they may[...]
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Stephen C. Votier, Auteur ; Jonathan E. Crane, Auteur ; Stuart Bearhop, Auteur ; Ana de Leon, Auteur ; Claire A. McSorley, Auteur ; Eduardo Minguez, Auteur ; Ian P. Mitchell, Auteur ; Matthew Parsons, Auteur ; Richard A. Phillips, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurAt St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, a large colony of great skuas Stercorarius skua feed extensively on one of the largest colonies of Leach's storm-petrels Oceanodroma leucorhoa in Europe, but little is known about the dynamics of this predator-prey s[...]
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Will T. S. Miles, Auteur ; Matt Parsons, Auteur ; Andrew J. Close, Auteur ; Richard Luxmoore, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurMany species of bird recognize acoustic and visual cues given by their predators and have complex defence adaptations to reduce predation risk. Recognition of threats posed by specific predators and specialized anti-predation behaviours are comm[...]
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Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Sarah Wanless, AuteurGiven the conservation importance of Gannet populations in Britain, and concerns about possible adverse impacts of offshore wind farms on Gannets as a result of collision risk, we advocate the establishment of strategic monitoring studies at key[...]
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Robert W. Furness, AuteurLife history theory predicts that seabirds will respond to reduction in food abundance by changes in behaviour or breeding effort, buffering adult survival. Empirical data show some support for this but also sometimes indicate a trade-off in whi[...]
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Stephen C. Votier, Auteur ; Stuart Bearhop, Auteur ; Jonathan E. Crane, Auteur ; Jose Manuel Arcos, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurCompetition for food is widely cited as an important cost of coloniality among birds and much of the evidence in support of this hypothesis comes from studies of colonial piscivorous seabirds. However, for generalist seabirds able to switch betw[...]
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Volker Dierschke, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, Auteur ; Stefan Garthe, AuteurThe extent to which seabirds are displaced from, or attracted to, offshore wind farms (OWFs) is uncertain, but rapid development of OWFs in European waters could conflict with seabird conservation. We review post-construction studies of seabirds[...]
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Leandro Bugoni, Auteur ; Kate Griffiths, Auteur ; Robert W. Furness, AuteurSkewed adult sex ratio (ASR) has been proposed as a common pattern in birds, frequently biased towards males and with larger biases in globally threatened species. In albatrosses and petrels, it has been suggested that differential mortality of [...]
