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Brian W. Finch, Auteur ; R. Stratton Hatfield, Auteur ; Silvia Colombo, Auteur ; Adam S. Kennedy, Auteur ; Marije te Raa, Auteur ; Martin Irestedt, Auteur ; Dawid H. de Swardt, Auteur ; Joe Grosel, Auteur ; Derek Engelbrecht, Auteur ; Callan Cohen, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Peter Njoroge, Auteur ; Sylke Frahnert, Auteur ; Peter de Knijf, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurWe describe the discovery of a previously unknown population of Melodious Lark Mirafra cheniana from northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, some 2000 km north of what was previously thought to be its northern limit in central Zimbabwe. The identi[...]
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Bruktawit A. Mahamued, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Stuart J. Marsden, Auteur ; Paul Kariuki Ndang’ang’a, Auteur ; Mengistu Wondafrash, Auteur ; Yilma Dellelegn Abebe, Auteur ; James Bennett, Auteur ; Simon R. Wotton, Auteur ; Daniel Gornall, Auteur ; Huw Lloyd, AuteurLiben Lark Heteromirafra archeri is a ‘Critically Endangered’ species threatened by the loss and degradation of grassland at the Liben Plain, southern Ethiopia, one of only two known sites for the species. We use field data from nine visits betw[...]
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Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Guy M. Kirwan, AuteurTaxonomists now usually recognize 10 extant species of oystercatcher Haematopus, plus the extinct Canary Islands Oystercatcher Haematopus meadewaldoi. Molecular data, however, have recently been used to propose meadewaldoi as either a morph or a[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Johannes Kamp, Auteur ; Rhys E. Green, Auteur ; Ruslan Urazaliyev, Auteur ; Maxim Koshkin, Auteur ; Robert D. Sheldon, AuteurPopulation declines of the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing are probably due to high mortality along its migration routes or on its wintering grounds, both of which are very poorly known. We therefore undertook a long-term study of the spe[...]
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Fatemeh Ghorbani, Auteur ; Mansour Aliabadian, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Aleem A. Khan, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurPhylogeographic analyses of the genus Eremophila (Horned Lark E. alpestris and Temminck’s Lark E. bilopha) were carried out based on the mitochondrial cytochrome b and ND2 genes. Four primary lineages with para-/allopatric distributions were ide[...]
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Wesley G. Gush, Auteur ; David H. Maphisa, Auteur ; Chevonne Reynolds, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, AuteurRudd’s Lark Heteromirafra ruddi is a globally threatened species endemic to eastern South Africa’s highland grasslands, where climate envelope modelling has predicted a dramatic reduction in its already small and fragmented distribution. Here we[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Lincoln D. C. Fishpool, Auteur ; Ademola Ajagbe, Auteur ; Leon A. Bennun, Auteur ; Gill Bunting, Auteur ; Ian J. Burfield, Auteur ; Stuart H. M. Butchart, Auteur ; Sofia Capellan, Auteur ; Michael J. Crosby, Auteur ; Maria P. Dias, Auteur ; David Diaz, Auteur ; Michael I. Evans, Auteur ; Richard Grimmett, Auteur ; Melanie Heath, Auteur ; Victoria R. Jones, Auteur ; Benjamin G. Lascelles, Auteur ; Jennifer C. Merriman, Auteur ; Mark O’Brien, Auteur ; Ivan Ramirez, Auteur ; Zoltan Waliczky, Auteur ; David C. Wege, AuteurImportant Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) are sites identified as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations on the basis of an internationally agreed set of criteria. We present the first review of the development and [...]
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Zoltan Waliczky, Auteur ; Lincoln D. C. Fishpool, Auteur ; Stuart H. M. Butchart, Auteur ; David Thomas, Auteur ; Melanie F. Heath, Auteur ; Carolina Hazin, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Aida Kowalska, Auteur ; Maria P. Dias, Auteur ; Tristram S. M. Allinson, AuteurBirdLife International´s Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA) Programme has identified, documented and mapped over 13,000 sites of international importance for birds. IBAs have been influential with governments, multilateral agreements, b[...]
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Andrew J. Bladon, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Samuel E. I. Jones, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Jarso Deng, Auteur ; Galgalo Dadacha, Auteur ; Yilma D. Abebe, Auteur ; Rhys E. Green, AuteurClimate may influence the distribution and abundance of a species through a number of demographic and ecological processes, but the proximate drivers of such responses are only recently being identified. The Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis st[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Per Alström, Auteur ; Derek Engelbrecht, Auteur
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Paul F. Donald, AuteurOffspring sex ratios in wild bird populations, and the extent to which they vary from the equality expected by random genotypic sex determination, have received much recent attention. Adult sex ratios (ASRs) in wild birds, on the other hand, rem[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Sabine Hille, Auteur ; M. de L. Brooke, Auteur ; Roy Taylor, Auteur ; Colin E. Wells, Auteur ; Mark Bolton, Auteur ; Tim Marlow, Auteur
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David W. Gibbons, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Hans-Guenther Bauer, Auteur ; Lorenzo Fornasari, Auteur ; Ian K. Dawson, AuteurCapsule An increasing proportion of atlases now map patterns of abundance but they are still a minority even though they require no more input of time or fieldworkers. Aims To examine quantitatively the evolution of bird atlas methods, from thei[...]
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Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Lincoln D. C. Fishpool, Auteur ; Julius A. Arinaitwe, Auteur ; Mark Balman, Auteur ; Philippe Mayaux, AuteurOver 1,200 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) have been identified in Africa, each meeting at least one of four objective criteria that identify it as an area of high conservation importance for birds. Despite their biodiversity value, many IBAs are th[...]
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Rob D. Sheldon, Auteur ; Johannes Kamp, Auteur ; Maxim A. Koshkin, Auteur ; Ruslan S. Urazaliev, Auteur ; Timur K. Iskakov, Auteur ; Rob H. Field, Auteur ; Albert R. Salemgareev, Auteur ; Valery V. Khrokov, Auteur ; Vasily A. Zhuly, Auteur ; Sergey L. Sklyarenko, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, AuteurWe assessed demographic rates and numbers of the globally threatened Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius in central Kazakhstan from 2005 to 2012 to identify drivers of recent declines. Annual fecundity, estimated from a sample of over 1,000 nest[...]
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Sirirak Aratrakorn, Auteur ; Somying Thunhikorn, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, AuteurThis paper describes changes in bird communities following the conversion of lowland forest to commercial oil palm and rubber plantations. Conversion of forest to plantations resulted in a reduction in species richness of at least 60%, with inse[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Htin Hla, Auteur ; Lay Win, Auteur ; Thiri Dawei Aung, Auteur ; Saw Moses, Auteur ; Sao Myo Zaw, Auteur ; Tin Tun Ag, Auteur ; Kyaw Naing Oo, Auteur ; Jonathan C. Eames, AuteurFollowing a recent assessment of the distribution and habitat use of Gurney's Pitta in Myanmar (Burma), further extensive surveys were undertaken in 2010, 2011 and 2012. These have extended the species' known altitudinal limit to between 250 m a[...]
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David H. Maphisa, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Peter G. Ryan, AuteurHabitat use and breeding ecology of the threatened and poorly known Rudd's Lark Heteromirafra ruddi were studied in south-eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa, from October 2002 to April 2004. Data were also collected incidentally on the equally poo[...]
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Steffen Oppel, Auteur ; Deborah J. Pain, Auteur ; Jeremy A. Lindsell, Auteur ; Lars Lachmann, Auteur ; Ibrahima Diop, Auteur ; Cosima Tegetmeyer, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Guy Anderson, Auteur ; Christopher G. R. Bowden, Auteur ; Franziska Tanneberger, Auteur ; Martin Flade, AuteurStable isotope analysis of feathers can be useful in the study of seasonal interactions and migratory connectivity in birds. For the Palaearctic-African migration system, however, the lack of isotope data from feathers of known origin in Africa [...]
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Fiona J. Sanderson, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Deborah J. Pain, Auteur ; Ian J. Burfield, Auteur ; Frans P. J. van Bommel, AuteurWe present the first continent-wide analysis of the population trends of European breeding birds to show that populations of Afro-Palearctic migrant birds have shown a pattern of sustained, often severe, decline. The mean trend of inter-continen[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Sirirak Aratrakorn, Auteur ; Thura Win Htun, Auteur ; Jonathan C. Eames, Auteur ; Htin Hla, Auteur ; Somying Thunhikorn, Auteur ; Kriangsak Sribua-Rod, Auteur ; Pinyo Tinun, Auteur ; Sein Myo Aung, Auteur ; Sa Myo Zaw, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, AuteurGurney's Pitta Pitta gurneyi was not seen in the wild for over 30 years before its rediscovery in a small area in southern Thailand in 1986. 111 2003, it was found over a much larger area in southern Myanmar (Burma) after an even longer absence [...]
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Johannes Kamp, Auteur ; Ruslan Urazaliev, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Norbert Hoelzel, AuteurThe socioeconomic impacts of the break-up of the Soviet Union after 1991 have resulted in massive changes in agriculture on the Eurasian (Pontian) steppe, most of which is now confined to Kazakhstan. Recent trends in agriculture are well documen[...]
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Johannes Kamp, Auteur ; Robert D. Sheldon, Auteur ; Maxim A. Koshkin, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Robert Biedermann, AuteurHabitat associations and distribution of breeding Sociable Lapwings were examined in 2004-2008 in central Kazakhstan to develop and assess hypotheses relating to the species' decline and high conservation threat status. At a landscape scale, bre[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Yilma Dellelegn Abebe, Auteur ; Merid N. Gabremichael, Auteur ; M. A. Kiragu Mwangi, Auteur ; Paul Kariuki Ndang'ang'a, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Mengistu Wondafrash, AuteurThe Critically Endangered Liben Lark (formerly Sidamo Lark) is known only from the Liben Plain of southern Ethiopia, where rapid grassland deterioration is driving the species towards extinction. Fieldwork on the Liben Plain in May 2009 to asses[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Yilma Dellelegn Abebe, Auteur ; Merid N. Gabremichael, Auteur ; M. A. Kiragu Mwangi, Auteur ; Paul Kariuki Ndang'ang'a, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Mengistu Wondafrash, Auteur
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Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; Callan Cohen, Auteur ; Julian E. Francis, Auteur ; Negussie Toye, Auteur ; David Hoddinott, Auteur ; Abiy Dagne, Auteur ; Chris Wood, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurThe African lark genus Heteromirafra is thought to consist of three threatened species inhabiting mid-altitude grasslands, one in South Africa and two in the Horn of Africa. One of the latter, Archer's Lark H. archeri of Somaliland, has not been[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Kai Gedeon, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Mengistu Wondafrash, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, AuteurWe attempt to describe and explain the peculiarly restricted distribution of the globally threatened Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni. At a regional scale, models containing only correlates of land cover suggested a far wider distr[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Tony J. Morris, AuteurResearch on the Sky Lark Alauda arvensis has revealed a great deal about the causes of this species' sustained population decline in recent decades. Of the many changes in its farmland habitats, the most important, though not the only, cause of [...]
