| Titre : | Ostrich 81(1) - MAR 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Charles T. Collins, Auteur ;
Mark D. Anderson, Auteur ;
David N. Johnson, Auteur
The food habits of the Little Swift Apus affinis and African Black Swift Apus barbatus were quantified at Kimberley, Northern Cape province and Makapansgat, Limpopo province, South Africa. As previously documented for other species, both of thes[...]
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Darren W. Pietersen, Auteur ;
Craig T. Symes, Auteur
The diets of Falco amurensis and F. naumanni were investigated by analysing the respective stomach contents of 64 and 22 individuals killed during a severe thunderstorm in December 2004. Interpretations of diet were made by considering (1) bioma[...]
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Robert E. Simmons, Auteur
The Damara Tern Sterna balaenarum is a small coastal-nesting seabird that breeds in the Namib Desert, with a stronghold in Namibia. About 125 pairs are known from scattered localities in South Africa, and there are suggestions that it breeds in [...]
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Carl Vernon, Auteur
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Albert Schultz, Auteur ;
Les G. Underhill, Auteur ;
Roy A. Earle, Auteur ;
George Underhill, Auteur
Over a two-year period, 945 adult Cape Weavers Ploceus capensis were mist-netted with a bias towards 632 male and 308 female birds. Blood smears presented avian haemosporidia in 58.79% of males and 61.90% of females, representing five species fr[...]
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Eduardo Garcia-Del-Rey, Auteur
The Canary Blue Tit Cyanistes teneriffae has recently been split off from the Common Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus as a separate species. Live biometrics from across the entire distribution on the island of Tenerife (subspecies teneriffae tenerif[...]
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Philip Shaw, Auteur
Biogeographical theory predicts that restricted-range species should typically occur at lower densities than ecologically similar, but geographically widespread species. Exceptions may arise where endemics occupy distinctive habitats, in which t[...]
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J. H. van Niekerk, Auteur
Assemblages of waterfowl (Anatidae) at two cattle feedlots 120 km apart in Gauteng province, South Africa are described. Yellow-billed, Fulvous and White-faced Ducks, Cape Shoveller, and Cape and Red-billed Teals benefited directly from the catt[...]
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M. Mulotwa, Auteur ;
M. Louette, Auteur ;
A. Dudu, Auteur ;
A. Upoki, Auteur ;
R. A. Fuller, Auteur
The Congo Peafowl Afropavo congensis is a little-known species endemic to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A central question in assessing its conservation status is the degree to which it uses secondary forest. Here, we measure relative use of[...]
