| Titre : | Emu - Austral Ornithologie 115(2) - 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/04/2015 |
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Craig Simpkins, Auteur ;
George L. W. Perry, Auteur ;
Andrew Glaser, Auteur ;
Tim Allerby, Auteur ;
Todd E. Dennis, Auteur
Predation by introduced species and anthropogenic climate change now are two major threats to avifaunae worldwide. We developed an age-structured, stochastic simulation model to perform a population viability analysis for the Blue Duck, or Whio [...]
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Wray W. Grimaldi, Auteur ;
Richard J. Hall, Auteur ;
Daniel D. White, Auteur ;
Jing Wang, Auteur ;
Melanie Massaro, Auteur ;
Daniel M. Tompkins, Auteur
Since the mid-1980s, observations of marine animals with alopecia have been reported worldwide, although in most cases specific causes and consequences have not been elucidated. Adding to that list, an unprecedented feather loss condition affect[...]
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Andrzej Elzanowski, Auteur ;
Walter E. Boles, Auteur
A fragmentary quadrate from the earliest Eocene Tingamarra local fauna of Murgon, Queensland, combines characters of the coraciiform birds and their closest relatives, a separate pterygoid facet on the orbital process (a feature unknown in this [...]
Article
M. Gabriela Núñez Montellano, Auteur ;
Pedro G. Blendinger, Auteur
Several species of woodpecker drill holes in living trees to feed on flows of sap. We describe sap-holes drilled by the White-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes cactorum) on plant species in semi-arid woodlands of northern Argentina, and examine, fo[...]
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Verónica C. Neves, Auteur ;
Cristina P. Nava, Auteur ;
Matt Cormons, Auteur ;
Esteban Bremer, Auteur ;
Gabriel Castresana, Auteur ;
Pedro Lima, Auteur ;
Severino M. Azevedo Junior, Auteur ;
Richard A. Phillips, Auteur ;
Maria C. Magalhães, Auteur ;
Ricardo S. Santos, Auteur
We describe the migration routes and non-breeding areas of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) from the Azores Archipelago, based on ringing (banding) recoveries and tracking of three birds using geolocators. Over 20 years, there have been 55 transatl[...]
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Rachel T. Buxton, Auteur ;
Christopher J. Jones, Auteur ;
Henrik Moller, Auteur ;
Philip O’B. Lyver, Auteur
Attempts to establish seabird colonies at restoration sites using artificial visual and auditory social cues have had varying success rates, differing between sites and species. The biological mechanisms responsible for this variation are poorly[...]
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Rachael L. Sagar, Auteur ;
Antje Leseberg, Auteur ;
Ken Hunt, Auteur ;
Kahori Nakagawa, Auteur ;
Brendon Dunphy, Auteur ;
Matt J. Rayner, Auteur
In an effort to promote population recovery, translocations of the endemic Mottled Petrel (Pterodroma inexpectata) from remote offshore islands to the mainland are planned within New Zealand. To optimise these efforts we studied chick growth, ad[...]
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John L. Read, Auteur ;
Benjamin Parkhurst, Auteur ;
Steven Delean, Auteur
A 13-year spatially-replicated monitoring program was analysed to determine avifauna responses to disturbances associated with proximity to a mine in arid Australia. Crested Bellbirds (Oreoica gutturalis), Grey Butcherbirds (Cracticus torquatus)[...]
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Anna M. Kearns, Auteur ;
Lauren C. White, Auteur ;
Jeremy J. Austin, Auteur ;
Kevin E. Omland, Auteur
The Pacific Robin (Petroica multicolor) is a polytypic species, with 14 subspecies recognised in the tropical south-western Pacific Ocean. Like most of the avifauna of this region, the Pacific Robin has received little taxonomic attention since [...]
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Gary W. Luck, Auteur ;
Kelly Hunt, Auteur ;
Andrew Carter, Auteur
Agriculture is the predominant land use in Australia. Yet, there is limited knowledge of which bird species use particular agricultural crops and the implications this has for crop damage or the provision of ecosystem services. We measured speci[...]
