| Titre : | Bird Study 62(3) - juillet 3, 2015 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/07/2015 |
Dépouillements
Article
Thomas Oliver Mérő, Auteur ;
Antun Žuljević, Auteur ;
Szabolcs Lengyel, Auteur
Capsule Clutch initiation date decreased with longitude, clutch size increased with latitude and decreased with maximum temperature, whereas the number of fledglings increased both with latitude and longitude, and decreased with maximum temperat[...]
Article
Kendrew Colhoun, Auteur ;
Kevin Mawhinney, Auteur ;
Will J. Peach, Auteur
Capsule The third survey of breeding waders in Northern Ireland showed large declines in the abundance of Eurasian Curlew, Northern Lapwing and Common Snipe since 1987.Aims To estimate the size of the breeding populations of selected breeding wa[...]
Article
Marcin Tobolka, Auteur ;
Katarzyna M. Zolnierowicz, Auteur ;
Nicola F. Reeve, Auteur
Capsule Although the White Stork avoids adverse weather conditions by modifying its arrival and breeding, it cannot avoid extreme weather events during the breeding season.Aims To show how extreme weather conditions can influence breeding attemp[...]
Article
Marta Maziarz, Auteur ;
Richard K. Broughton, Auteur
Capsule Great Tits breeding in natural cavities in a primeval forest occupied microhabitats containing larger trees, but small differences between ‘breeding’ and ‘non-breeding’ locations indicated the minor importance of microhabitat selection i[...]
Article
Will B. Kirby, Auteur ;
Paul E. Bellamy, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Stanbury, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Bladon, Auteur ;
Phil V. Grice, Auteur ;
Simon Gillings, Auteur
Capsule At both landscape and local scales, breeding persistence in a declining Hawfinch population was greatest where broadleaved woodland cover was high, while at a fine scale, nest sites were associated with openings in the woodland canopy.Ai[...]
Article
Robin C. Whytock, Auteur ;
Daniel Davis, Auteur ;
Rory T. Whytock, Auteur ;
Malcolm D. Burgess, Auteur ;
Jeroen Minderman, Auteur ;
John W. Mallord, Auteur
Capsule Maximum provisioning rates occurred during the seasonal peak in caterpillar availability, controlling for brood age and time of day.Aims To determine if the seasonal availability of caterpillars influenced Wood Warbler Phylloscopus sibil[...]
Article
Javier García, Auteur ;
David Miguélez, Auteur ;
Héctor Astiárraga, Auteur ;
Carlos Zumalacárregui, Auteur
Capsule Wetland occupation by breeding Marsh Harriers is influenced by wetland and vegetation area, distance to other wetlands where conspecifics are present and also by the characteristics and conditions of the vegetation such as predominant sp[...]
Article
Guillam E. McIvor, Auteur ;
Susan D. Healy, Auteur
Capsule We describe an instance of joint nesting by Hooded Crows Corvus cornix in Orkney, Scotland, in 2011, where nine eggs were laid in a single nest. As the territory was occupied by a trio of birds that engaged in territory defence as a grou[...]
Article
Duncan McCollin, Auteur ;
James Hodgson, Auteur ;
Robin Crockett, Auteur
Capsule An analysis of body mass and wing length for four bird species shows trends broadly in line with predictions from Bergmann's and Allen's rules but with species- and sex-specific trends in terms of body size variation with latitude in Bri[...]
Article
Moez Touihri, Auteur ;
Marc-Andre Villard, Auteur ;
Faouzia Charfi-Cheikhrouha, Auteur
Capsule Nests of Levaillant's Woodpecker Picus vaillantii and Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major were associated with higher densities of snags and downed wood than foraging locations.Aims To quantify the nesting requirements of two symp[...]
Article
Gail S. Robertson, Auteur ;
Mark Bolton, Auteur ;
Pat Monaghan, Auteur
Capsule Black-legged Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla breeding at a North Sea colony allocated more resources to younger chicks with increasing brood age.Aims Examine how feeding, attendance and resource allocation change with increasing brood age an[...]
Article
Scott Gooch, Auteur ;
Kate Ashbrook, Auteur ;
Andrew Taylor, Auteur ;
Tamás Székely, Auteur
Capsule Reintroduced Great Bustards achieve dietary and habitat diversity despite living in an intensive agricultural setting.Aims To investigate dietary composition and habitat use of reintroduced Great Bustards Otis tarda released in southwest[...]
Article
Richard K. Broughton, Auteur ;
Grzegorz Hebda, Auteur ;
Marta Maziarz, Auteur ;
Ken W. Smith, Auteur ;
Linda Smith, Auteur ;
Shelley A. Hinsley, Auteur
Capsule There is no evidence of widespread significant nest-site competition in Britain or the Western Palearctic between cavity-nesting birds and bumblebees or social wasps.Aims To investigate competition between cavity-nesting birds and bumble[...]
Article
Masashi Murakani, Auteur ;
Shunji Harada, Auteur ;
Hidetaka Ichiyanagi, Auteur ;
Tohru Suzuki, Auteur ;
Satoshi Yamagishi, Auteur
Capsule The distribution and abundance of waterfowl species were surveyed at artificial water reservoirs in Japan. The species richness and the species-specific abundances of most of species were positively related to the extent of shallow areas[...]
Article
Mu-Yang Wang, Auteur ;
Qiang Chen, Auteur ;
Hanahati Kuerbanjiang, Auteur ;
Feng Xu, Auteur ;
David Blank, Auteur ;
Wei-Kang Yang, Auteur
Capsule Great Bustards Otis tarda gained vigilance benefits from increasing group size: they showed a negative correlation between group size and the percentage of individuals scanning, and a positive correlation between group size and the perce[...]
Article
Thomas Oliver Mérő, Auteur ;
Antun Žuljević, Auteur ;
Szabolcs Lengyel, Auteur
Capsule Clutch initiation date decreased with longitude, clutch size increased with latitude and decreased with maximum temperature, whereas the number of fledglings increased both with latitude and longitude, and decreased with maximum temperat[...]
Article
Duncan McCollin, Auteur ;
James Hodgson, Auteur ;
Robin Crockett, Auteur
Capsule An analysis of body mass and wing length for four bird species shows trends broadly in line with predictions from Bergmann\'s and Allen\'s rules but with species- and sex-specific trends in terms of body size variation with latitude in B[...]
Article
Kendrew Colhoun, Auteur ;
Kevin Mawhinney, Auteur ;
Will J. Peach, Auteur
Capsule The third survey of breeding waders in Northern Ireland showed large declines in the abundance of Eurasian Curlew, Northern Lapwing and Common Snipe since 1987.Aims To estimate the size of the breeding populations of selected breeding wa[...]
