| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 20(4) - DEC 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Martin Dallimer, Auteur ;
Martim Melo, Auteur ;
Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ;
Peter J. Jones, Auteur
Recently recognised as specifically distinct, the Principe Thrush Turdus xanthorhynchus is endemic to the island of Principe in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa. Formerly treated as conspecific with the more abundant T. olivaceofuscus from the ne[...]
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M. de L. Brooke, Auteur ;
T. P. Flower, Auteur ;
M. C. Mainwaring, Auteur
Donald (2007) showed that the adult sex ratios of wild bird populations tended to be male-biased, and that this bias was stronger in threatened species than in those of least concern. Here we show that, in 2004, the world population of the Criti[...]
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Fabiane Sebaio, Auteur ;
Erika Martins Braga, Auteur ;
Felipe Branquinho, Auteur ;
Lilian Tonelli Manica, Auteur ;
Miguel Ângelo Marini, Auteur
Deforestation, fragmentation and habitat disturbance may alter the relationship between pathogens and hosts. We tested, apparently for the first time, whether habitat fragmentation and degree of dependence on forests affect the prevalence of avi[...]
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Richard P. Young, Auteur ;
Timotheus Jn Baptiste, Auteur ;
Alwin Dornelly, Auteur ;
Helen Temple, Auteur ;
Hester Whitehead, Auteur ;
H. Glyn Young, Auteur ;
Matthew N. Morton, Auteur
A rapidly developing tourism industry, concentrated in coastal regions, is suspected to seriously impact upon biodiversity in the global conservation priority of the insular Caribbean. In St Lucia, construction of tourism infrastructure in the c[...]
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James C. Ha, Auteur ;
Alyssa Butler, Auteur ;
Renee Robinette Ha, Auteur
The Mariana Crow Corvus kubaryi is a species of forest crow originally found only on the adjacent islands of Guam and Rota in the Mariana Islands of the western Pacific Ocean. Rapid and continuing declines led to it being listed by IUCN as "Crit[...]
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Jody A. O'Connor, Auteur ;
Frank J. Sulloway, Auteur ;
Sonia Kleindorfer, Auteur
Island species typically exist in pathogen and predator sparse environments before human settlement, and are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of invasive species. In this study, we used the variable circular-plot method to estimate the den[...]
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Luca Borghesio, Auteur ;
Daina Samba, Auteur ;
Mwangi Githiru, Auteur ;
Leon Bennun, Auteur ;
Ken Norris, Auteur
The Taita Apalis Apalis fuscigularis (IUCN category: Critically Endangered) is a species endemic to south-eastern Kenya. We assessed population size and habitat use in the three forest sites in which it is known to occur (Ngangao, Chawia and Vur[...]
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Andrew Cristinacce, Auteur ;
Lucy J. H. Garrett, Auteur ;
Ruth E. Cole, Auteur ;
R. V. Vikash Tatayah, Auteur ;
Carl G. Jones, Auteur
The marooning of populations on offshore islands can be used as a conservation technique for species threatened by introduced predators, but post-release breeding success is not always as high as expected. Following the release of Mauritius Fodi[...]
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Luiz dos Anjos, Auteur ;
Robert D. Holt, Auteur ;
Scott Robinson, Auteur
We tested the hypothesis that endemic bird species of the Brazilian Atlantic forest are more sensitive to forest fragmentation than non-endemics in a fragmented landscape in northern Parana state of southern Brazil. Levels of sensitivity (high, [...]
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James H. Fullard, Auteur ;
Robert M. R. Barclay, Auteur ;
Donald W. Thomas, Auteur
The Atiu Swiftlet Aerodramus sawtelli is endemic to the Cook Island of Atiu and has an estimated total population of less than 400, rendering it one of the world's most globally endangered bird species. Over a series of five visits to Atiu, we c[...]
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Juan F. Freile, Auteur ;
Juan Luis Parra, Auteur ;
Catherine H. Graham, Auteur
The current ranges of many tropical species of conservation concern are poorly known, yet this information is critical for assessing their conservation status against the IUCN Red List criteria and implementing species-level management. Antpitta[...]
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Regina De Souza Yabe, Auteur ;
Eliezer Jose Marques, Auteur ;
Miguel Ângelo Marini, Auteur
The ability of birds to move through the landscape is a key parameter for ecological and conservation studies. We studied bird movements among natural vegetation patches surrounded by native grassland and tested the effect of inter-patch distanc[...]
