| Titre : | Ostrich 81(2) - 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Ginger A. Rebstock, Auteur ;
Maria Laura Agueero, Auteur ;
P. Dee Boersma, Auteur ;
Luis Augusto Ebert, Auteur ;
Agustina Gomez Laich, Auteur ;
Nora Lisnizer, Auteur ;
Walter S. Svagelj, Auteur ;
M. Magdalena Trivellini, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
Article
Munir Z. Virani, Auteur ;
Peter Njoroge, Auteur ;
Ian Gordon, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
Article
Ute Stenkewitz, Auteur ;
Beryl Wilson, Auteur ;
Jan F. Kamler, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
Article
A. Cristinacce, Auteur ;
R. E. Cole, Auteur ;
C. G. Jones, Auteur ;
R. V. V. Tatayah, Auteur ;
D. J. Bell, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
There is currently no reliable, affordable method of sexing Mauritius Fodies in their first non-breeding season. Ringed immature fodies from a released population on an offshore island were caught in April and May 2005 and sexed in later breedin[...]
Article
Tiziano Londei, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
Article
Jean-Marc Roussel, Auteur ;
Patricia Le Quilliec, Auteur ;
Philippe Clergeau, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
A recent study on the introduced Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus on Reunion Island has highlighted the existence of rapid morphological divergence in bill size between the leeward and windward sides of the island. The hypothesis that die[...]
Article
J. H. van Niekerk, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
The Crested Francolin Dendroperdix sephaena is a common gamebird in sub-Saharan Africa but its vocal behaviour is poorly recorded. A fixed area (24 km2) in the Borakalalo National Park (North West province, South Africa) was traversed during Dec[...]
Article
Jared M. Wilson, Auteur ;
Will Cresswell, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
Palearctic migrant birds are declining, including the Northern Wheatear, and some of the causes of these declines are likely to be operating on their wintering grounds in Africa. We examined seasonal and spatial variation in wintering densities [...]
Article
H. D. Jackson, Auteur ;
J. Ingels, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
The Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma and the Blackish Nightjar C. nigrescens are widespread and common within their rupicolous habitat, in the Afrotropics and Neotropics respectively, and may therefore be considered as successful in their[...]
Article
Nola J. Parsons, Auteur ;
Michael A. Peirce, Auteur ;
Venessa Strauss, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
New species of haematozoa, namely Leucocytozoon ugwidi sp. nov. from the Cape Cormorant Phalacrocorax capensis and Haemoproteus skuae sp. nov. from the Subantarctic Skua Catharacta antarctica, are described. These are the first species to be rec[...]
Article
Thomas K. Gottschalk, Auteur ;
Derek Pomeroy, Auteur
Dans
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[...]
Article
Temporal and sex-specific variation in growth rates of Marabou Stork Leptoptilos crumeniferus chicks
Ara Monadjem, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Bamford, Auteur ;
Ian C. W. Hardy, Auteur ;
Jason K. Earnshaw, Auteur ;
Elaine Franklin, Auteur ;
Desire L. Dalton, Auteur ;
Antoinette Kotze, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
The nesting success of Marabou Storks Leptoptilos crumeniferus breeding in north-eastern Swaziland is closely associated with rainfall, with nests started late in the season exposed to higher rainfall and showing lower success. This may be relat[...]
Article
Adrian J. F. K. Craig, Auteur ;
Bo T. Bonnevie, Auteur ;
H. Dieter Oschadleus, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
Using the SAFRING database and the Underhill-Zucchini model of primary moult, we analysed the timing of wing moult in Southern Red Bishops Euplectes orix in relation to sex and geographical region. Birds from the winter rainfall region in the so[...]
Article
Jessica M. Shaw, Auteur ;
Andrew R. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Peter G. Ryan, Auteur ;
Jon J. Smallie, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
Avian mortality on power lines in South Africa is currently recorded on the Central Incident Register (CIR), which is a collation of incidentally reported cases. The true scale of the problem is unknown, so we report here on a survey of represen[...]
Article
Andrew E. McKechnie, Auteur ;
Ben Smit, Auteur
Dans
Ostrich (81(2) 2010)
Torpor has been documented in a number of avian orders, but our understanding of the phylogenetic distribution of this phenomenon is far from complete, and several groups have yet to be investigated. We examined patterns of rest- and active-phas[...]
