| Titre : | Waterbirds 41(2) - June 2018 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/06/2018 |
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Article
Nancy E. Seefelt, Auteur
In 2000, studies began on the Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) in the Beaver Archipelago, Lake Michigan, Michigan, USA, and have continued through the present. Research was conducted to determine whether Double-crested Cormorants[...]
Article
Linda R. Wires, Auteur ;
D. V. Chip Weseloh, Auteur
This paper introduces the special section prepared for Waterbirds from selected papers originally presented at a symposium titled "Recent Advances in Biology and Management of Double-crested Cormorants (Phalocrocorax auritus)", held in Bar Harbo[...]
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Karen McDonald, Auteur ;
Ralph Toninger, Auteur ;
Andrea Chreston, Auteur ;
Ilona R. Feldmann, Auteur ;
Gail S. Fraser, Auteur
Tree mortality incurred through the nesting habits of Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) can cause human-wildlife conflicts, often resulting in the lethal control of cormorants to reduce local population numbers in North America. [...]
Article
Floyd E. Hayes, Auteur
Grebes typically build floating nests that are attached to vegetation and very rarely construct nests on non-floating structures. On 29 August 2017, a pair of Least Grebes (Tachybaptus dominicus) was photographed nesting on top of a non-floating[...]
Article
Abbas Ashoori, Auteur ;
Mauro Fasola, Auteur
Four cases of interspecific mixed broods between Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta; n = 175), Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis; n = 125), Squacco Herons (Ardeola ralloides; n = 25) and Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax; n = 199) were r[...]
Article
Salvador Hernandez-Vazquez, Auteur ;
Jose Alfredo Castillo-Guerrero, Auteur ;
Eric Mellink, Auteur ;
Ana Maria Almaguer-Hernandez, Auteur
The Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aetehreus) is a seabird that breeds on islands in tropical seas. The Mexican government has listed it as threatened; however, the International Union for Conservation of Nature considers it of least concern, a[...]
Article
Peter C. McGowan, Auteur ;
Kaitlyn M. Reinstma, Auteur ;
Jeffery D. Sullivan, Auteur ;
Katie P. DeVoss, Auteur ;
Jennifer L. Wall, Auteur ;
Mia D. Zimnik, Auteur ;
Carl R. Callahan, Auteur ;
Bill Schultz, Auteur ;
Diann J. Prosser, Auteur
The availability of shelter to avoid predation and ameliorate physiologically stressful conditions is often important to the survival of avian hatchlings. However, as changes in habitat availability force birds to nest in nontraditional location[...]
Article
Zhengqiang Xu, Auteur ;
Ying Zhou, Auteur ;
Jianyi Fu, Auteur ;
Zhibing Chen, Auteur ;
Enle Pei, Auteur
Dalmatian Pelicans (Pelecanus crispus; n = 3 breeding pairs) at the Shanghai Zoo, China, were used to study breeding behavior and nest conditions using automated telemetry from 21 February to 25 March 2011. Both sexes were found to participate i[...]
Article
Donald E. Lyons, Auteur ;
Allison G. L. Patterson, Auteur ;
James Tennyson, Auteur ;
Timothy J. Lawes, Auteur ;
Daniel D. Roby, Auteur
For migratory waterbirds, the availability and quality of suitable stopover habitat can affect body condition and demographic parameters throughout the annual cycle. This study investigates the importance of the Salton Sea, a large saline lake l[...]
Article
Monica J. Schwalbach, Auteur ;
Lars Y. Pomara, Auteur ;
William M. Christie, Auteur ;
Stanley J. Zarnoch, Auteur
Consideration of annual population count data, stream flows, water levels, and nesting habitat availability over a 29-year period suggest that Least Terns (Sternula antillarum athalossos) nesting along the Cheyenne River and Oahe Reservoir in So[...]
Article
Alberto Pina-Ortiz, Auteur ;
Salvador Hernandez-Vazquez, Auteur ;
Guillermo Fernández, Auteur ;
Jose Alfredo Castillo-Guerrero, Auteur
The breeding distribution and population size of the Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) in Mexico were reviewed. This species has been confirmed to breed on 14 and potentially breed on six Mexican Pacific islands: two in the North Pacifi[...]
Article
Timothy D. Meehan, Auteur ;
A. Laurie Harvey, Auteur ;
Nicole L. Michel, Auteur ;
Gary M. Langham, Auteur ;
Anna Weinstein, Auteur
Count data suggest that Black Oystercatcher (Haematopus bachmani) has locally variable but globally stable populations. A simple, stage-based matrix population model for Black Oystercatcher was built and Monte Carlo simulations of the model were[...]
Article
Chelsea Batavia, Auteur ;
Michael Paul Nelson, Auteur
Lethal management of Double-crested Cormorants (Phalocrocorax auritus) has been implemented in many areas of the United States. In this paper, the philosophical method of argument analysis is used to assess ethical premises underlying the propos[...]
Article
Bianca P. Vieira, Auteur ;
Robert W. Furness, Auteur ;
Ruedi G. Nager, Auteur
Identifying sexes in birds from visual observations could be a useful and inexpensive method. While sexual dichromatism and ornaments are readily used by observers, sexual size dimorphism can also be used to identify sexes in some bird species. [...]
