| Titre : | Raptors drowning in farm reservoirs in South Africa |
| Auteurs : | M. D. Anderson, Auteur ; A. W. A. Maritz, Auteur ; E. Oosthuysen, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Ostrich (70(2) SEP 1999) |
| Article en page(s) : | 139-144 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : | In the arid areas of southern Africa, the drowning of raptors in small reservoirs on farms is a significant cause of mortality. Records of 322 raptors of 29 species which drowned during 163 separate incidents have been collated. Whitebacked Gyps africanus and Cape Vultures Gyps coprotheres, and Martial Polemaetus bellicosus and Black Eagles Aquila verreauxii, were the species most frequently recovered from reservoirs. There are few records of small raptors ( |



