| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 21(3) - SEP 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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S. H. Chen, Auteur ;
Z. Y. Fan, Auteur ;
C. S. Chen, Auteur ;
Y. W. Lu, Auteur
The Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini is a Critically Endangered species and very little is known about its breeding biology and behaviour. Only two small breeding colonies have been recorded on the eastern coast of China. Between 2004 [...]
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Peihao Cong, Auteur ;
Lei Cao, Auteur ;
Anthony D. Fox, Auteur ;
Mark Barter, Auteur ;
Eileen C. Rees, Auteur ;
Yong Jiang, Auteur ;
Weitou Ji, Auteur ;
Wenzhong Zhu, Auteur ;
Guoxian Song, Auteur
Approximately 75% of the East Asian Flyway Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii population winters in the Yangtze River floodplain, China. Historically the species was more widely distributed throughout the floodplain but now most of the popu[...]
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Hong-Yan Yang, Auteur ;
Bing Chen, Auteur ;
Mark Barter, Auteur ;
Theunis Piersma, Auteur ;
Chun-Fa Zhou, Auteur ;
Feng-Shan Li, Auteur ;
Zheng-Wang Zhang, Auteur
The coast of Bohai Bay, north-western Yellow Sea, is critical for waterbirds migrating along the East Asia-Australasian Flyway. Between 1994 and 2010, a total of 450 km(2) of offshore area, including 218 km2 of intertidal flats (one third of the[...]
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Andre F. Boshoff, Auteur ;
Johan C. Minnie, Auteur ;
Craig J. Tambling, Auteur ;
Michael D. Michael, Auteur
The global population of the Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres, a threatened southern African endemic, is known to be impacted by electrocutions and collisions on power line infrastructure, but to date this impact has not been estimated or quantifie[...]
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Juan Lopez-Jamar, Auteur ;
Fabián Casas, Auteur ;
Mario Diaz, Auteur ;
Manuel B. Morales, Auteur
Local changes in land use can influence patterns of habitat selection by farmland birds, thus biasing predictions of population responses to land use changes based on wildlife-habitat or niche modelling. This study, based in arable farmland in s[...]
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Andrew R. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Jessica M. Shaw, Auteur ;
Jon J. Smallie, Auteur ;
Bradley Gibbons, Auteur ;
Ronelle Visagie, Auteur ;
Peter G. Ryan, Auteur
Ludwig's Bustard Neotis ludwigii, endemic to Africa's south-west arid zone, is susceptible to collisions with overhead power lines. Limited data from the south-eastern part of its range suggest that this factor may threaten its survival. We esti[...]
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Vitek Jirinec, Auteur ;
Brent R. Campos, Auteur ;
Matthew D. Johnson, Auteur
Recent evidence indicates that insectivorous birds in shade coffee farms provide economically significant ecosystem services by reducing insect pests, which should encourage cultivation practices favouring birds and other wildlife. However, the [...]
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Juan M. Perez-Garcia, Auteur ;
Francisco Botella, Auteur ;
Jose A. Sanchez-Zapata, Auteur ;
Marcos Moleon, Auteur
Electrocution on power lines is one of the principal problems facing raptors and other medium- and large-sized birds at the global scale. The recent European-based Spanish state legislation on avian electrocutions has focused on Special Protecti[...]
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Marta López-Darias, Auteur ;
Javier Luzardo, Auteur ;
Rafael Martinez, Auteur ;
Daniel Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Eduardo A. Garcia, Auteur ;
Jeremias Cabrera, Auteur
Negative effects of poaching on seabird populations are not usually evaluated quantitatively when assessing seabird colony conservation status, nor are they generally considered a major concern. We demonstrate that poaching is still intense in t[...]
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Jeremy A. Lindsell, Auteur ;
Adwan H. Shehab, Auteur ;
Guy Q. A. Anderson, Auteur
A small colony of Northern Bald Ibis Geronticus eremita breeding in the Syrian desert is the only wild remnant of the eastern population of this 'Critically Endangered' species. Since its discovery in 2002, the colony has not increased in size d[...]
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Gianluca Serra, Auteur ;
Claudia Bruschini, Auteur ;
Jeremy A. Lindsell, Auteur ;
Lubomir Peske, Auteur ;
Ahmed Kanani, Auteur
Eight years after the discovery of the last survivors of the eastern population of Northern Bald Ibis in Syria, their breeding grounds within the Palmyra steppe remain threatened by habitat degradation, human disturbance and uncontrolled infrast[...]
