| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 19(3) - SEP 2009 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Taku Awa, Auteur ;
Guillaume Dzikouk, Auteur ;
Ken Norris, Auteur
The Grey-necked Picathartes Picathartes oreas, considered 'Vulnerable', is an enigmatic ground-dwelling bird endemic to the central African equatorial rainforest and belongs to a family of only two species. Its distribution extends to the two En[...]
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A. Green, Auteur
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Katrina A. Hale, Auteur ;
James V. Briskie, Auteur
The small size of many island populations of endangered birds, together with their high density, low genetic diversity and naivety to introduced pathogens, may render them vulnerable to disease epidemics. Such an outbreak Occurred in an isolated[...]
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W. N. Ding, Auteur ;
F. M. Lei, Auteur ;
Z. H. Yin, Auteur ;
R. S. Lin, Auteur
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North-west Iberia is a crucial stopover region for European populations of Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca and Spotted Flycatchers Muscicapa striata during their summer-autumn migration. Both species are almost completely insectivorous durin[...]
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Greet De Coster, Auteur ;
Erik Matthysen, Auteur ;
Jennifer R. A. Cahill, Auteur ;
Luc Lens, Auteur
The Giant Conebill Oreomanes fraseri is a specialist of high Andean Polylepis forest remnants. With the aid of radio-tracking and visual observations, the average 100% minimum convex polygon home range size of seven adult individuals was 7.15 ha[...]
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G. H. Kattan, Auteur ;
J. W. Beltran, Auteur
Grallaria antpittas are a group of little known birds from the understorey of humid forests of the tropical Andes, with several species having very narrow distributions. At Ucumari Regional Park, which protects the Otun River watershed in the Ce[...]
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Jose Jesus, Auteur ;
Dilia Menezes, Auteur ;
Sara Gomes, Auteur ;
Paulo Oliveira, Auteur ;
Manuel Nogales, Auteur ;
Antonio Brehm, Auteur
It is widely accepted that the gadfly petrels of the Macaronesian islands comprise three closely related and morphologically similar taxa, Petrodroma madeira from Madeira island, P. deserta (also treated is R feae deserta) from Bugio and P. feae[...]
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The exceptionally rapid degradation and fragmentation of the Upper Guinea Forest, caused by slash-and-burn farming and selective logging, oblige bird conservationists to examine critically the conservation value of unprotected areas, which may p[...]
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B. Herod, Auteur
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N. J. Shah, Auteur ;
S. Parr, Auteur
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B. Dowling, Auteur ;
M. A. Weston, Auteur
Mornington Peninsula National Park, Victoria, Australia, is heavily used by recreationists. It also holds a breeding population of the Hooded Plover Thinornis rubricollis, a rare endemic shorebird. We monitored the population of plovers over sev[...]
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In this study I compare bird communities along an elevational gradient in an Atlantic forest remnant (Pico do Corcovado in Ubatuba) in coastal Sao Paulo state, Brazil. Forests at low elevations are structurally more complex and more diverse in p[...]
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F. J. Burton, Auteur ;
P. E. Bradley, Auteur ;
E. A. Schreiber, Auteur ;
G. A. Schenk, Auteur ;
R. W. Burton, Auteur
The island of Little Cayman, in the north-west Caribbean, supports a large breeding colony of Red-footed Boobies Sula sula, within a Ramsar site, the Booby Pond Nature Reserve, protected and managed by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands. [...]
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V. J. Zacharias, Auteur ;
A. J. Gaston, Auteur
We surveyed the avifaunas of 24 forest areas in Kerala State, south-western India, over the period 1973-1997, recording 309 species. We give details here of distributions and status for all species endemic to South Asia and all those having isol[...]
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Heqi Wu, Auteur ;
Ke Zha, Auteur ;
Ming Zhang, Auteur ;
Xiaojun Yang, Auteur
From 5 May 2003 to early June 2005, nest site selection of Black-necked Cranes Grits nigricollis was studied at the Ruoergai Wetland Nature Reserve (RWNR), an important breeding area for the species in China. Results showed that the crane nests [...]
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Laura M. Bellis, Auteur ;
Luis Rivera, Auteur ;
Natalia Politi, Auteur ;
Eduardo Martin, Auteur ;
M. Laura Perasso, Auteur ;
Francisco Cornell, Auteur ;
Daniel Renison, Auteur
Many South American hotspots of bird endemism are found in Polylepis dominated forests. Although the avifauna of Polylepis forests has been relatively well studied in the tropical Andes, little is known in Argentina. In this Study, we characteri[...]
