| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 17(2) - JUN 2007 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Nabin Baral, Auteur ;
Ramji Gautam, Auteur
Following the catastrophic decline in populations of three species of South Asian Gyps vultures, we conducted a study to explore socio-economic variables that could facilitate conservation efforts. A questionnaire survey was carried out in 103 r[...]
Article
Cristián F. Estades, Auteur ;
Juan Aguirre, Auteur ;
Martin A. H. Escobar, Auteur ;
Jorge A. Tomasevic, Auteur ;
Maria Angelica Vukasovic, Auteur ;
Charif Tala, Auteur
We assessed the conservation status of the Chilean Woodstar Eulidia yarrellii, a small hummingbird endemic to a few desert valleys of northern Chile and southern Peru. Although no population studies had been conducted, this rare species was pres[...]
Article
Allan Mee, Auteur ;
Bruce A. Rideout, Auteur ;
Janet A. Hamber, Auteur ;
J. Nick Todd, Auteur ;
Greg Austin, Auteur ;
Mike Clark, Auteur ;
Michael P. Wallace, Auteur
Ingestion of foreign anthropogenic material, here called junk, has been documented in many avian taxa but has become especially problematic in some Old World Gyps vulture populations within the last 30 years. Here, we document the effects of ing[...]
Article
Yanyun Zhang, Auteur ;
Guangmei Zheng, Auteur
Understanding the status of fragmented populations and predicting their fate is an increasingly important part of bird conservation. Population viability analysis (PVA) can help in this process and is widely used for assessing the extinction ris[...]
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A review by Peterson (2006) claims that a new species-level taxonomy leads to improved conservation insights for Philippine birds. However, it does not report how borderline taxonomic cases were dealt with, how many taxa and specimens were exami[...]
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Collar (2007) attacked a recent paper of mine (Peterson 2006) on a number of grounds; he raised some valid points, and detected some errors in detail. Here, I respond to his criticisms, clarify misunderstandings, and urge the field to move beyon[...]
Article
Ping Ping Jiang, Auteur ;
Yun Fa Ge, Auteur ;
Qiu Lei Lang, Auteur ;
Ping Ding, Auteur
Genetic structure among five populations of Elliot's Pheasant sampled from five different provinces - Anhui (AH), Zhejiang (ZJ), Fujian (FJ), Hunan (HN) and Guizhou (GZ) - was assayed using mitochondrial control region sequences from 33 individu[...]
Article
Ronald K. Mulwa, Auteur ;
Leon A. Bennun, Auteur ;
Callistus K. P. O. Ogol, Auteur ;
Luc Lens, Auteur
Our study focused on the Taita White-eye Zosterops silvanus, one of three bird species endemic to the Taita Hill forests, south-east Kenya. Formerly considered Critically Endangered, Taita White-eye has been down-listed to Endangered following t[...]
