| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 23(3) - SEP 2013 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Claudio Mota-Vargas, Auteur ;
Octavio R. Rojas-Soto, Auteur ;
Carlos Lara, Auteur ;
Citlalli Castillo-Guevara, Auteur ;
Claudia Ballesteros-Barrera, Auteur
Delimiting the distribution of a species is a complex task because many determining factors are difficult to assess in the field. This is important because distribution is a key factor in the decision-making process for conservation. One example[...]
Article
Esther Sebastian-Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Cristina Fuentes, Auteur ;
Marcos Ferrandez, Auteur ;
Jose L. Echevarrias, Auteur ;
Andy J. Green, Auteur
Understanding habitat requirements is vital for developing successful management strategies for threatened species. In this study we analyse the habitat selection of two globally threatened waterbirds (Marbled Teal Marmaronetta angustirostris an[...]
Article
Maria Vidal, Auteur ;
Jesus Dominguez, Auteur
The Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus is the only wader that nests on the beaches of Galicia, north-west Spain. In November 2002, much of that habitat was heavily affected by the Prestige oil spill, considered one of the largest spills ever[...]
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Drastic recent decreases in numbers of the 'Endangered' African Penguin Spheniscus demersus highlight the need for conservation efforts to reverse this trend. Habitat reduction due to former guano scraping forces penguins to breed in surface nes[...]
Article
P. Godfrey C. Jakosalem, Auteur ;
Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ;
Jennifer A. Gill, Auteur
The largely deforested island of Cebu, Philippines, hosts a forest-dwelling hawk-owl identified in the literature as Ninox philippensis spilonota but which is in fact a Cebu island endemic species, soon to be named. To determine the current dist[...]
Article
Yonara Lobo, Auteur ;
Miguel Ângelo Marini, Auteur
Reducing the time that birds' eggs are exposed during incubation in the wild is a management strategy with the potential to reduce nest predation rates, enhance breeding success and increase the population size of endangered species. We tested w[...]
Article
Tomas Aarvak, Auteur ;
Ingar Jostein Oien, Auteur ;
Yuri V. Krasnov, Auteur ;
Maria V. Gavrilo, Auteur ;
Anatoly A. Shavykin, Auteur
Prolonged declines in the number of Steller's Eider Polysticta stelleri wintering in Europe have raised concerns about the conservation status of the Western Palearctic population. Coordinated helicopter surveys of all known wintering areas in N[...]
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Three weeks of intensive surveys in Norfolk Island National Park in 2009 failed to find White-chested White-eye Zosterops albogularis and it was calculated that there was a less than 17% probability that a population of 10 birds had been overloo[...]
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Pedro Rocha, Auteur ;
Manuel B. Morales, Auteur ;
Francisco Moreira, Auteur
We present results on breeding parameters, nesting performance and nest habitat selection of the globally threatened Great Bustard Otis tarda, gathered during a 3-year study in Castro Verde (southern Portugal). A total of 107 nests were located.[...]
Article
Bruno A. Walther, Auteur ;
P. Barry Taylor, Auteur ;
Norbert Schaeffer, Auteur ;
Sue Robinson, Auteur ;
Frédéric Jiguet, Auteur
The Corncrake Crex crex breeds in the Palearctic but overwinters in central and southern Africa. While some information had previously been gathered about the Corncrake's African wintering distribution, we here analyse a much more comprehensive [...]
