| Titre : | Ardea 95(2) - FAL 2007 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Ross M. Wanless, Auteur ;
John W. Wilson, Auteur
The Gough Moorhen is endemic to Gough island and is classified by the IUCN as Threatened. We present several observations of Gough Moorhens preying on introduced House Mice Mus musculus and on eggs and chicks of burrow-nesting procellarifform se[...]
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Beneharo Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Manuel Siverio, Auteur ;
Airam Rodriguez, Auteur ;
Felipe Siverio, Auteur
We studied density, habitat selection and reproduction of Barbary Falcons Falco peregrinus pelegrinoides on Tenerife Island during 2004 and 2005. A total of 26 breeding pairs were counted, all of them occupying natural cliffs around the island. [...]
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Susana I. C. O. Santos, Auteur ;
Johannes T. Lumeij, Auteur ;
Paul Westers, Auteur ;
Bob B. I. van Wandelen, Auteur
Reflectance spectrometry, in the avian visible range, is currently a standard methodological approach for plumage colour assessment in birds. However, the method generally employed, whereby only one observation and illumination angle is used, ca[...]
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E. Costillo, Auteur ;
C. Corbacho, Auteur ;
R. Maron, Auteur ;
A. Villegas, Auteur
The current feeding habits of the Cinereous Vulture Aegypius monachus remain largely unknown since most studies were carried out in the 1970s. To update the information, we studied the diet of the species in different colonies in Extremadura by [...]
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Sofie Vandendriessche, Auteur ;
Eric W. M. Stienen, Auteur ;
Magda Vincx, Auteur ;
Steven Degraer, Auteur
The influence of floating seaweed patches on the distribution and behaviour of seabirds was investigated using the European Seabirds At Sea database (ESAS). The percentage of observations that seabirds were observed with floating seaweed differe[...]
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Carla Pimentel, Auteur ;
Jan-Ake Nilsson, Auteur
Since 1997, a population of the Pine Processionary Moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa exhibited a shifted life cycle in a restricted area of a managed pine forest, at the central west coast of Portugal. Rather than during the regular winter period, la[...]
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Catherine Hickey, Auteur ;
Nils Warnock, Auteur ;
John Y. Takekawa, Auteur ;
Nicole D. Athearn, Auteur
We examined space use by Black-necked Stilts Himantopus mexicanus in the San Francisco Bay estuary, USA, to better understand how shorebirds use their Pacific Flyway landscape. These efforts are particularly important in the San Francisco Bay es[...]
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Heinz Duettmannn, Auteur ;
Karsten Lettau, Auteur ;
Andreas Barkow, Auteur
in search for an alternative to lethal methods of predator control, we tested the efficacy of two noxious odours, Hukinol and Hundeschreck, as predator repellents in field experiments with artificial and real nests. Hukinol produces a strong hum[...]
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José A. Masero, Auteur ;
Sora M. Estrella, Auteur ;
Juan M. Sánchez-Guzmán, Auteur
The foraging behaviour of typical plovers is highly stereotyped, and short-billed plovers all forage visually in a run-stop-search manner. To date, the use of a sandpiper-like foraging method by typical plovers is considered anecdotal in non-bre[...]
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Piotr Tryjanowski, Auteur ;
Artur Golawski, Auteur ;
Stanislaw Kuzniak, Auteur ;
Tornasz Mokwa, Auteur ;
Marcin Antczak, Auteur
Nesting in the same breeding area in successive years provides information to help understand the cues used by birds in habitat selection. Moreover, such information may also be an important tool for the conservation and management of endangered[...]
Article
Simon Gillings, Auteur ;
William J. Sutherland, Auteur
Knowledge of diet and intake rates are useful first steps in understanding the distribution and behaviour of foragers. The diet of Golden Plovers and Lapwings feeding on arable farmland has been rarely studied, yet these species increasingly occ[...]
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Boris P. Nikolov, Auteur ;
Iva P. Hristova, Auteur
This study, conducted in the region of Sofia (western Bulgaria), investigated activity patterns of juvenile Woodchat Shrikes Lanius senator after fledging. Time spent to flying, social interactions, ground hunting and solitarily behaviour increa[...]
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Serguei M. Kossenko, Auteur ;
Evgeniya Yu Kaygorodova, Auteur
The Nerussa-Desna woodland (south-western Russia) is one of the core areas for the Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos medius, a habitat specialist restricted mainly to mature oak forests. Recent studies have shown a lower breeding density of [...]
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Xin Lu, Auteur ;
Guangmei Zheng, Auteur
The Tibetan Eared-pheasant Crossoptilon harmani is a high-altitude galliform endemic to south Tibet. At a macrohabitat scale, we have shown that populations of this species are limited by a lack of suitable roosts in their scrub-covered montane [...]
