| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 20(1) - MAR 2010 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Leonardo Esteves Lopes, Auteur ;
Gustavo Bernardino Malacco, Auteur ;
Eduardo Franca Alteff, Auteur ;
Marcelo Ferreira De Vasconcelos, Auteur ;
Diego Hoffmann, Auteur ;
Luís Fábio Silveira, Auteur
Populations of grassland birds are declining in Brazil due to profound alterations to grassland habitats. In this paper, we present recent records and range extensions for 12 threatened or little known Brazilian grassland species: Ocellated Crak[...]
Article
Matthias Waltert, Auteur ;
Charlotte Seifert, Auteur ;
Gerhard Radl, Auteur ;
Bernd Hoppe-Dominik, Auteur
The White-breasted Guineafowl Agelastes meleagrides is one of 15 bird species endemic to the Upper Guinea Forests of West Africa. The Tai region in southwestern Cote d'Ivoire probably holds one of the largest remaining populations of this specie[...]
Article
Richard P. Urbanek, Auteur ;
Lara E. A. Fondow, Auteur ;
Sara E. Zimorski, Auteur ;
Marianne A. Wellington, Auteur ;
Mark A. Nipper, Auteur
From 2001 to 2005, 71 costume-reared juvenile Whooping Cranes Grits americana were led by ultralight aircraft from Wisconsin to a winter release site on the west-central Gulf Coast of Florida. A strategy was developed and implemented to maximize[...]
Article
Adrian S. Di Giacomo, Auteur ;
Peter D. Vickery, Auteur ;
Hernan Casanas, Auteur ;
Oscar A. Spitznagel, Auteur ;
Christian Ostrosky, Auteur ;
Santiago Krapovickas, Auteur ;
Andres J. Bosso, Auteur
The Aguapey river basin in the Pampas grasslands of Argentina is the last refuge for a complete assemblage of globally threatened and Near Threatened birds. We evaluated the influence of landscape characteristics on the occurrence and abundance [...]
Article
H. X. Jiang, Auteur ;
Y. Q. Hou, Auteur ;
G. Z. Chu, Auteur ;
F. W. Qian, Auteur ;
H. Wang, Auteur ;
G. G. Zhang, Auteur ;
G. M. Zheng, Auteur
Saunders's Gull Lams saundersi is a breeding endemic of Common Seepweed Suaeda glauca habitats on the east coast of China and south-west coast of South Korea. Much of this habitat has been lost and degraded due to human land use and expansion of[...]
Article
Antoni Margalida, Auteur ;
Diego Garcia, Auteur ;
Rafael Heredia, Auteur ;
Joan Bertran, Auteur
From 2000-2008 we used transmitting video cameras to document the breeding biology of the endangered Bearded Vulture in the Pyrenees (NE Spain), focusing the study on sibling aggression. Our goals were to study the feasibility of rescuing second[...]
Article
Shin Matsui, Auteur ;
Mariko Hisaka, Auteur ;
Masaoki Takagi, Auteur
The introduction of exotic rats Ratios spp. is one of the most important factors contributing to the reduction in avian diversity and extinctions on oceanic islands. However, little is known about factors other than predation, which are associat[...]
Article
Paula L. Enriquez, Auteur ;
Kimberly M. Cheng, Auteur ;
John E. Elliott, Auteur
The diet patterns and trophic relationships are poorly understood for most tropical owl species. We used stable isotopes of carbon (delta(13)C) and nitrogen (delta(15)N) in 24 feather samples of the rare, endemic, and 'Near Threatened' Bearded S[...]
Article
Paul F. Donald, Auteur ;
Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ;
Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ;
Yilma Dellelegn Abebe, Auteur ;
Merid N. Gabremichael, Auteur ;
M. A. Kiragu Mwangi, Auteur ;
Paul Kariuki Ndang'ang'a, Auteur ;
Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ;
Mengistu Wondafrash, Auteur
The Critically Endangered Liben Lark (formerly Sidamo Lark) is known only from the Liben Plain of southern Ethiopia, where rapid grassland deterioration is driving the species towards extinction. Fieldwork on the Liben Plain in May 2009 to asses[...]
