| Titre : | Ardea 93(1) - SPR 2005 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
Dépouillements
Article
C. P. Bell, Auteur
A recent presentation of a model of the evolution of avian migration by Rappole and Jones (2002) fails to address issues raised in a critique of an earlier presentation of the model, and instead draws a contrast with the largely discarded idea o[...]
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C. Both, Auteur ;
T. Piersma, Auteur ;
S. P. Roodbergen, Auteur
Long time series allow us to look back in time and examine how birds responded to changes in their environment. During the second half of the 20(th) century, not only did Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus experience an increase in spring temper[...]
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T. Piersma, Auteur ;
K. G. Rogers, Auteur ;
H. Boyd, Auteur ;
E. J. Bunskoeke, Auteur ;
J. Jukema, Auteur
Changes in annual survival and recruitment rates over the second half of the 20th century were calculated from 1834 recoveries and 400 recaptures in the years following ringing of 77 069 Eurasian Golden Plovers ringed in The Netherlands. Almost [...]
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M. L. Mallory, Auteur ;
M. R. Forbes, Auteur
The Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis is a seabird in which both sexes have similar plumage, but sexual dimorphism in body size is apparent. We used data from 63 Northern Fulmars collected at Cape Vera, Nunavut, Canada, to develop a discriminan[...]
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X. Lu, Auteur ;
G. M. Zheng, Auteur
In the mountains of eastern Tibet lives a wild population of hybrids between White Eared-pheasants (Crossoptilon crossoptilon) and Tibetan Eared-pheasants (C. harmani). We studied the social behaviour of this locally dominant galliform, living i[...]
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Roosting behaviour and wintering of Eurasian Marsh Harriers Circus aeruginosus in south-east England
P. J. Oliver, Auteur
Eurasian Marsh Harriers Circus aeruginosus used roosting sites in tidal salt marshes and a reed-filled fleet for 13-15 winters, other sites in reed and crops occasionally. Most wintering birds were female, with males consistently accounting for [...]
Article
D. Bos, Auteur ;
R. H. Drent, Auteur ;
M. Rubinigg, Auteur ;
J. Stahl, Auteur
We studied the relative importance of food biomass and food quality for habitat preference in Brent Geese Branta bernicla by expefimentally manipulating forage parameters. Levels of biomass and ford quality (nitrogen content) were independently [...]
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Article
G. Moreno-Rueda, Auteur
Male House Sparrows Passer domesticas have a white wing stripe that is not present in females, and is displayed during courtship. Chewing lice eat white barbs preferentially, which suggests that the presence of white barbs depends on the presenc[...]
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E. P. Tsachalidis, Auteur ;
V. Liordos, Auteur ;
V. Goutner, Auteur
The growth of White Stork Ciconia ciconia nestlings was studied during the breeding season of 1997 in Serres Prefecture, northern Greece. Body mass and bill length of 29 nestlings were measured at irregular time intervals, a total of 192 measure[...]
Article
J. M. Neto, Auteur ;
A. G. Gosler, Auteur
The breeding biology of a southern population of the little-known Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides is described and compared with other parts of its distribution and other species. Males arrived at the Salreu marshlands, Portugal, in the s[...]
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A. Marcin, Auteur ;
M. Hromada, Auteur ;
P. Tryjanowski, Auteur
We studied temporal and spatial patterns of impaling behaviour in a resident population of the Great Grey Shrike Lanius excubitor throughout the year. The information was collected in western Poland during the years 2000-2003. The presented find[...]
Article
K. G. Rogers, Auteur ;
T. Piersma, Auteur
Over the years, the purpose of the traditional wilsternetting technique of the northern Netherlands for trapping Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria has changed from a hunting practice to bird ringing. In a companion paper, Piersma et al[...]
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R. G. Bijlsma, Auteur ;
B. Van Den Brink, Auteur
A large Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica roost in Pennisetum-covered clearings amid rainforest in SE Nigeria attracted at least eleven species of avian predators. Departure and arrival of Swallows at the roost was highly predictable and synchronised[...]
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J. H. Rappole, Auteur
In Rappole & Jones (2002), a hypothesis was presented explaining how migration between temperate and tropical regions could have evolved from normal dispersal of tropical-breeding resident birds, cit.ng taxonomic, ecological, biogeographic, phys[...]
