| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 24(4) - DEC 2014 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Whaldener Endo, Auteur ;
Torbjorn Haugaasen, Auteur ;
Carlos A. Peres, Auteur
The Near-threatened Orinoco Goose Neochen jubata is a poorly known South American sheldgoose with a declining population and range distribution. In this study, we surveyed the Orinoco Goose population along the middle reaches of the Rio Jurua, w[...]
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Erica C. Pacifico, Auteur ;
Eduardo A. Barbosa, Auteur ;
Thiago Filadelfo, Auteur ;
Kleber G. Oliveira, Auteur ;
Luís F. Silveira, Auteur ;
José L. Tella, Auteur
Lear's Macaw Anodorhynchus leari is currently listed as Endangered by IUCN. Although it only breeds on cliffs at two protected sites in Bahia State, Brazil, there is no accurate information on population parameters such as the number of breeding[...]
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Phil Shaw, Auteur ;
Peter Njoroge, Auteur ;
Vincent Otieno, Auteur ;
Edson Mlamba, Auteur
In developing countries, land sparing' may be more effective than land sharing' in partially mitigating the impacts of farming on bird species diversity. We examined the pattern of change in the global and local distribution of Hinde's Babbler T[...]
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Carlos Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Luis Tapia, Auteur ;
Emanuel Ribeiro, Auteur ;
Javier Bustamante, Auteur
We studied foraging habitat selection by Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni throughout the breeding period in south-west Spain by means of transects on which foraging observations were recorded. We focused on the effects of habitat and crop type, but[...]
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Donglai Li, Auteur ;
Yuqing Ding, Auteur ;
Ying Yuan, Auteur ;
Huw Lloyd, Auteur ;
Zhengwang Zhang, Auteur
Staging sites are vital for large-sized migratory cranes, which require high-protein food sources during migration. In this study, we used field surveys and faecal analysis to determine the migration patterns and dietary composition of the globa[...]
Article
C. E. Packman, Auteur ;
D. A. Showler, Auteur ;
N. J. Collar, Auteur ;
Son Virak, Auteur ;
S. P. Mahood, Auteur ;
M. Handschuh, Auteur ;
T. D. Evans, Auteur ;
Hong Chamnan, Auteur ;
P. M. Dolman, Auteur
A census of the Critically Endangered Bengal Florican Houbaropsis bengalensis was conducted between March and May 2012 on and surrounding the Tonle Sap floodplain in Cambodia, which supports the last extant population of the Indochinese subspeci[...]
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Diana V. Solovyeva, Auteur ;
Peiqi Liu, Auteur ;
Alexey I. Antonov, Auteur ;
Andrey A. Averin, Auteur ;
Vladimir V. Pronkevich, Auteur ;
Valery P. Shokhrin, Auteur ;
Sergey L. Vartanyan, Auteur ;
Peter A. Cranswick, Auteur
Based on surveys during 2000-2012 and best available knowledge, we estimate the global population size of the Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus to be c.1,940 pairs (or c.4,660 birds prior to reproduction). In Russia, surveys iden[...]
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Mark Barter, Auteur ;
Xuliang Zhuang, Auteur ;
Xin Wang, Auteur ;
Lei Cao, Auteur ;
Jinyu Lei, Auteur ;
Diana Solovyeva, Auteur ;
Anthony D. Fox, Auteur
The Endangered Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus is amongst the most threatened of sea ducks (Mergini), with an estimated population of c.4,600 individuals based on a recent population estimate on the breeding areas in Primorye, Far East Ru[...]
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Fred Amidon, Auteur ;
Richard J. Camp, Auteur ;
Ann P. Marshall, Auteur ;
Thane K. Pratt, Auteur ;
Laura Williams, Auteur ;
Paul Radley, Auteur ;
Justine B. Cruz, Auteur
The island of Aguiguan is part of the Mariana archipelago and currently supports populations of four endemic species, including one endemic genus, Cleptornis. Bird population trends since 1982 were recently assessed on the neighbouring islands o[...]
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James W. Rivers, Auteur ;
J. Matthew Johnson, Auteur ;
Susan M. Haig, Auteur ;
Carl J. Schwarz, Auteur ;
L. Joseph Burnett, Auteur ;
Joseph Brandt, Auteur ;
Daniel George, Auteur ;
Jesse Grantham, Auteur
Condors and vultures comprise the only group of terrestrial vertebrates in the world that are obligate scavengers, and these species move widely to locate ephemeral, unpredictable, and patchily-distributed food resources. In this study, we used [...]
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Philip W. Atkinson, Auteur ;
William M. Adams, Auteur ;
JOOST Brouwer, Auteur ;
Graeme Buchanan, Auteur ;
Robert A. Cheke, Auteur ;
Will Cresswell, Auteur ;
Chris M. Hewson, Auteur ;
Mark F. Hulme, Auteur ;
Adam Manvell, Auteur ;
Danaë K. Sheehan, Auteur ;
Robert D. S. Small, Auteur ;
William J. Sutherland, Auteur ;
Juliet A. Vickery, Auteur
The Sahel in West Africa is a major wintering area for many western Palearctic migrants. The breeding populations of many of these have declined over the past 50 years. However, there have been few intensive field studies on migrant ecology in t[...]
