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Ivan Oruka, Auteur ; Geoffrey M. Malinga, Auteur ; Stonewall S. Kato, Auteur ; Darcy Ogada, Auteur ; Derek Pomeroy, AuteurThe Critically Endangered Rüppell’s Vulture Gyps rueppelli is a resident species in Uganda, with only one known breeding site in Luku Central Forest Reserve, Arua district. The natural resources in this protected forest reserve are under severe [...]
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Derek Pomeroy, Auteur ; Micheal Kibuule, Auteur ; Dianah Nalwanga, Auteur ; George Kaphu, Auteur ; Michael Opige, Auteur ; Phil Shaw, AuteurProjected increases in Africa's human population over the next 40 years point to further, large-scale conversion of natural habitats into farmland, with far-reaching consequences for raptor species, some of which are now largely restricted to pr[...]
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Dan Chamberlain, Auteur ; Micheal Kibuule, Auteur ; Roger Q. Skeen, Auteur ; Derek Pomeroy, AuteurLong-term studies of urban birds are relatively scarce, especially in Africa. We analysed trends in species richness and bird species occurrence over a 32-year period in Kampala, Uganda, in order to assess changes in the bird community in a peri[...]
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Derek Pomeroy, Auteur ; Frank Walsh, Auteur ; Peter Flint, Auteur ; Martin Hellicar, Auteur ; Phil Shaw, AuteurSummaryDuring 1998–2011, in an area of western Cyprus spanning about one-quarter of the global breeding range of the endemic Cyprus Warbler Sylvia melanothorax, the species declined at a rate of c.59% decade-1, suggesting that there is an urgent[...]
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Derek Pomeroy, Auteur ; Phil Shaw, Auteur ; Michael Opige, Auteur ; George Kaphu, Auteur ; Darcy L. Ogada, Auteur ; Munir Z. Virani, AuteurSix out of seven vulture species whose global ranges lie largely or wholly within Africa are listed as globally threatened. Since their current distributions individually span up to 39 range states there is a pressing need to develop robust, sta[...]
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Dianah Nalwanga, Auteur ; Derek Pomeroy, Auteur ; Juliet Vickery, Auteur ; Philip W. Atkinson, AuteurCapsule Timed species counts could provide a more valuable bird survey tool in the humid tropics than previously suggested. Aims To compare the relative performance of two bird survey methods that differ in complexity - point counts with distanc[...]
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Dianah Nalwanga, Auteur ; Derek Pomeroy, Auteur ; Juliet Vickery, Auteur ; Philip W. Atkinson, AuteurCapsule Timed species counts could provide a more valuable bird survey tool in the humid tropics than previously suggested. Aims To compare the relative performance of two bird survey methods that differ in complexity - point counts with distanc[...]
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Derek Pomeroy, Auteur ; Herbert Tushabe, Auteur ; Richard Cowser, AuteurIn this paper, we argue that bird atlases, and the databases from which they are produced, are becoming increasingly valuable resources - but only in sonic parts of the world. There is a striking lack of atlases for almost all of the world's spe[...]
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Immaculate-Odd Irumba, Auteur ; Derek Pomeroy, Auteur ; Michael Perrin, AuteurThe globally Vulnerable Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) has been seen in Kampala, Uganda's capital city, in increasing numbers in recent years. This apparently new behaviour of a typically forest species is helped by the presence of many large[...]
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Thomas K. Gottschalk, Auteur ; Derek Pomeroy, AuteurDans Ostrich (81(2) 2010)For a large number of threatened bird species, no information on habitat requirements or population estimates are available. We show for one of the least-studied African birds, the Oberlander's Ground-Thrush Zoothera oberlaenderi, how a first as[...]
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Derek Pomeroy, Auteur ; Micheal Kibuule, AuteurDans Ostrich (88(3) 2017)In recent decades, Marabou Storks Leptoptilos crumeniferus have become common in many urban centres, including Kampala, Uganda, where, as of 2016, they number several thousand birds, with more than 1 200 breeding pairs. Elsewhere in Uganda, the [...]
