| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 21(2) - JUN 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Irene Perez, Auteur ;
Jose Carlos Noguera, Auteur ;
Eduardo Minguez, Auteur
The Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni is one of the most endangered birds in Europe. Spanish populations have suffered large declines and disappeared from large areas of former distribution, thus leading to many reintroduction programmes. One of the[...]
Article
Hugh A. Robertson, Auteur ;
Rogan M. Colbourne, Auteur ;
Peter J. Graham, Auteur ;
Patrick J. Miller, Auteur ;
Raymond J. Pierce, Auteur
The population growth of Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli was measured under four different management regimes: unmanaged, predator trapping, predator poisoning, and Bank of New Zealand Operation Nest Egg (TM) (BNZONE) - the removal of eggs for artif[...]
Article
Jean-Claude Thibault, Auteur ;
Didier Hacquemand, Auteur ;
Pasquale Moneglia, Auteur ;
Herve Pellegrini, Auteur ;
Roger Prodon, Auteur ;
Bernard Recorbet, Auteur ;
Jean-Francois Seguin, Auteur ;
Pascal Villard, Auteur
Endemic to the island of Corsica in the western Mediterranean, the Corsican Nuthatch Sitta whiteheadi only occupies mature stands of Corsican Pine Pinus nigra laricio which cover a very small area. We present estimates of the distribution and po[...]
Article
Tapio Solonen, Auteur ;
Jukka Jokimäki, Auteur
We conducted three-visit surveys of 1-km(2) plots and traditional Finnish single-visit line transects (considering only the 50 m wide main belt) to evaluate these methods in censusing of a predetermined set of
Article
Effects of power lines on flight behaviour of the West-Pannonian Great Bustard Otis tarda population
Rainer Raab, Auteur ;
Peter Spakovszky, Auteur ;
Eike Julius, Auteur ;
Claudia Schuetz, Auteur ;
Christian H. Schulze, Auteur
Flight directions of Great Bustards Otis tarda after take-off were used to analyse effects of power lines on spatial movements of this highly endangered bird species. Data on flight directions came from Great Bustard observations conducted in ea[...]
Article
W. Gregory Shriver, Auteur ;
James P. Gibbs, Auteur ;
Hara W. Woltz, Auteur ;
Nicole P. Schwarz, Auteur ;
Margaret A. Pepper, Auteur
Species on oceanic islands are more likely to be endemic as well as more extinction-prone than those on continents. The Galapagos Rail Laterallus spilonotus, endemic to the Galapagos Archipelago, is presently known to occur on just four of its s[...]
Article
Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ;
Fabio Olmos, Auteur ;
Martim Melo, Auteur ;
W. Richard J. Dean, Auteur
The forests of the Angolan highlands are the smallest and most isolated of the Afromontane centres of endemism. Despite their high biodiversity value and small, fragmented extent of less than 200 ha, they remain entirely unprotected. Here we dra[...]
Article
Ron W. Summers, Auteur ;
Stephen T. Buckland, Auteur
A survey of Scottish Crossbills Loxia scotica was carried out in 3,506 km(2) of conifer woodland in northern Scotland during January to April 2008 to provide the first estimate of the global population size for this endemic bird. Population esti[...]
Article
Grainne S. Maguire, Auteur ;
Andrew K. Duivenvoorden, Auteur ;
Michael A. Weston, Auteur ;
Robyn Adams, Auteur
Artificial chick shelters might improve productivity of beach-nesting birds threatened by anthropogenic disturbance. We investigated the efficacy of three different chick shelter designs against four criteria: accessibility to chicks over time, [...]
Article
Samuel Riou, Auteur ;
Jacky Judas, Auteur ;
Mark Lawrence, Auteur ;
Serguei Pole, Auteur ;
Olivier Combreau, Auteur
A sharp decline in the numbers of Asian Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis macqueenii towards the end of the 20(th) century raised concerns about the conservation status of this species. Yet due to its large breeding range in the remote steppes and des[...]
