| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 28(2) - June 2018 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/06/2018 |
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Article
Pius Korner, Auteur ;
Roman Graf, Auteur ;
Lukas Jenni, Auteur
Large declines of farmland bird species have been observed in the lowlands of Western Europe, whereas important populations of some of these species have survived in parts of Eastern and Southern Europe and in small areas within Western Europe, [...]
Article
Sayam U. Chowdhury, Auteur ;
Mohammad Foysal, Auteur ;
M. Abdullah Abu Diyan, Auteur ;
Sakib Ahmed, Auteur
The Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaeus is one of the most threatened migratory shorebirds in the world, breeding in Russia and wintering in Asia. The global population is declining rapidly and is projected to be extin[...]
Article
Lucas Krüger, Auteur ;
Vitor H. Paiva, Auteur ;
Maria Virginia Petry, Auteur ;
Rosalinda C. Montone, Auteur ;
Jaime A. Ramos, Auteur
The Trindade Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana is a vulnerable species that breeds on Trindade Island, 1,100 km away from the Brazilian coast, and on Round Island in the Indian Ocean. Recent population estimates for Trindade Island by nest counts i[...]
Article
Katharina J. Peters, Auteur ;
Sonia Kleindorfer, Auteur
Floreana Island has the highest proportion of local land bird extinctions on the Galápagos Archipelago, and is home to the range-restricted and critically endangered Medium Tree Finch Camarhynchus pauper. We used acoustic surveys during 2004, 20[...]
Article
Claudia Hermes, Auteur ;
Jeroen Jansen, Auteur ;
H. Martin Schaefer, Auteur
The Chocó-Tumbesian region of western Ecuador is one of the 25 global biodiversity hotspots harbouring high numbers of endemic species, which are heavily threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation. Moreover, ongoing climate change in the tropi[...]
Article
Václav Zámečník, Auteur ;
Vojtech Kubelka, Auteur ;
Miroslav Šálek, Auteur
Only a few studies have assessed the predation risk on artificially marked nests, or have examined ways of marking nests to avoid destruction by machinery. Until now, however, neither type of study has directly addressed this apparent trade-off [...]
Article
Jong Koo Lee, Auteur ;
Ok-Sik Chung, Auteur ;
Jin-Young Park, Auteur ;
Hwa-Jung Kim, Auteur ;
Wee-Haeng Hur, Auteur ;
Sung-Hyun Kim, Auteur ;
Jin-Han Kim, Auteur
The Saemangeum tidal flat, an important staging site for migratory shorebirds that travel the East Asian-Australasian (EAA) Flyway, was isolated from the eastern Yellow Sea in 2006 as part of a large-scale reclamation project. To gain a better u[...]
Article
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ;
Alexander L. Bond, Auteur ;
Nicola J. Crockford, Auteur ;
Johannes Kamp, Auteur ;
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ;
Geoff M. Hilton, Auteur
The breeding areas of the Critically Endangered Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris are all but unknown, with the only well-substantiated breeding records being from the Omsk province, western Siberia. The identification of any remaining[...]
Article
Johannes H. Fischer, Auteur ;
Igor Debski, Auteur ;
Graeme A. Taylor, Auteur ;
Heiko U. Wittmer, Auteur
Small seabird species are often threatened by predation from invasive species at their breeding colonies and considerable efforts are invested into mitigating this threat. However, invasive predators may not be the only onshore threat affecting [...]
Article
José P. Granadeiro, Auteur ;
Letizia Campioni, Auteur ;
Paulo Catry, Auteur
Tracking studies of seabirds have generally focused in identifying areas used for foraging, in the hope of highlighting regions of energy transfer which may be important for seabird and general ecosystem conservation and special management. Howe[...]
Article
Marcela M. Uhart, Auteur ;
Luciana Gallo, Auteur ;
Flavio Quintana, Auteur
Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) and large petrels (Macronectes and Procellaria spp.) are among the world’s most rapidly declining birds. Some of the most endangered species, Amsterdam Albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis, Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross Th[...]
Article
Henning Heldbjerg, Auteur ;
Peter Sunde, Auteur ;
Anthony David Fox, Auteur
The 2020 EU biodiversity strategy aims to halt the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, but this requires effective monitoring to determine whether these aims are achieved. Common bird monitoring continuously assesses changes in the avia[...]
Article
P. McGowan, Auteur ;
R. W. R. J. Dekker, Auteur ;
S. Dowell, Auteur ;
P. Garson, Auteur
Megapodes: an action plan for their conservation 1995-1999 was published in 1995 by the Species Survival Commission of IUCN - The World Conservation Union. It is the twenty-eighth publication in its Action Plan series and the first for any group[...]
Article
Konstantin E. Mikhailov, Auteur ;
Yury B. Shibnev, Auteur
Fieldwork on the distribution, habitat preferences and status of birds was conducted in the Bikin River basin, northern Ussuriland, south-east Russia, during May-July 1992,1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997. The results of this survey combined with data [...]
Article
Thomas Brooks, Auteur ;
Luc Lens, Auteur ;
Jim Barnes, Auteur ;
Roger Barnes, Auteur ;
John Kageche Kihuria, Auteur ;
Christine Wilder, Auteur
The forests of the Taita Hills of south-east Kenya are of great importance to conservation, holding three endemic birds and many other endemic taxa. We surveyed birds in their remaining forest fragments in July-August 1996, and followed up these[...]
