| Titre : | Bird Study 66(4) - March, 2020 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/03/2020 |
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Article
P. Warren, Auteur ;
C. Land, Auteur ;
N. Hesford, Auteur ;
D. Baines, Auteur
Capsule: Black Grouse Lyrurus tetrix in southern Scotland are in severe decline, with remaining birds associated with large contiguous patches of moorland.Aims: To inform Black Grouse conservation programmes in southern Scotland we quantified re[...]
Article
Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ;
Ailsa J. McKenzie, Auteur ;
Richard M. Francksen, Auteur ;
David Feige, Auteur ;
Tom Cadwallender, Auteur ;
Matthew Grainger, Auteur ;
Nadheer Fazaa, Auteur ;
Caroline Rhymer, Auteur ;
Catherine Wilkinson, Auteur ;
Pauline Lloyd, Auteur ;
Ben Smurthwaite, Auteur ;
Steve M. Percival, Auteur ;
Tammy Morris-Hale, Auteur ;
Clare Rawcliffe, Auteur ;
Claire Dewson, Auteur ;
Sarah Woods, Auteur ;
Gavin B. Stewart, Auteur ;
Elizabeth Oughton, Auteur
Capsule: Wintering Ruddy Turnstones Arenaria interpres occur in higher densities and their populations decline less on, or close to, offshore refuges than on mainland sites subject to greater levels of human disturbance.Aim: To compare wintering[...]
Article
Samuele Ramellini, Auteur ;
Andrea Simoncini, Auteur ;
Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Auteur ;
Mattia Falaschi, Auteur
Capsule: The introduced Red-billed Leiothrix Leiothrix lutea can greatly expand its range in Italy, with many regions being at high risk of invasion due to their high habitat suitability.Aims: To assess the environmental variables affecting the [...]
Article
Kamilia Farhi, Auteur ;
Saâd Hanane, Auteur ;
Farid Mezerdi, Auteur ;
Asma Kahli, Auteur ;
Mohamed Dhaya El Hak Khemis, Auteur
Capsule: Nest site selection of Black-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles orientalis in an Algerian arid environment is dictated by a combination of topography, human presence, landscape and space.Aims: To disentangle the drivers affecting Black-bellie[...]
Article
Fulvio Genero, Auteur ;
Marcello Franchini, Auteur ;
Yannick Fanin, Auteur ;
Stefano Filacorda, Auteur
Capsule: The movements and spatial ecology of non-breeding Eurasian Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus in northern Italy, Croatia and Austria do not seem to be affected by feeding station use.Aims: The purpose of this study was to assess how the creat[...]
Article
Natalia B. Zielonka, Auteur ;
Robert W. Hawkes, Auteur ;
Helen Jones, Auteur ;
Robert J. Burnside, Auteur ;
Paul M. Dolman, Auteur
Capsule: Within the UK’s largest lowland Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata population, curlew preferentially nested on physically disturbed (treated) than undisturbed (control) grassland, and low nest survival rates were primarily attributable to[...]
Article
Ron Summers, Auteur ;
Nick Christian, Auteur ;
Brian Etheridge, Auteur ;
Stuart Rae, Auteur ;
Ian Cleasby, Auteur ;
Snæbjörn Palsson, Auteur
Capsule: Scottish-breeding Greenshanks Tringa nebularia migrate largely to Ireland.Aims: To describe the migration timings and determine the non-breeding areas (staging and wintering areas) of Scottish-breeding Greenshanks.Methods: Breeding adul[...]
Article
Gaël Aleix-Mata, Auteur ;
Begoña Adrados, Auteur ;
Mathieu Boos, Auteur ;
Evelyn Marty, Auteur ;
Pierre Mourieres, Auteur ;
Gregory Tucat, Auteur ;
Nicolas Thion, Auteur ;
Marc Mossoll-Torres, Auteur ;
Jesús M. Pérez, Auteur ;
Antonio Sánchez, Auteur
Population estimates of male Western Capercaillies Tetrao urogallus were carried out during the mating season using two methods: counts of singing males and non-invasive genetic analysis. Estimates of male numbers were 50% lower using the singin[...]
Article
Bing-Run Zhu, Auteur ;
Chris J. Hassell, Auteur ;
Yvonne I. Verkuil, Auteur ;
Tómas G. Gunnarson, Auteur ;
Jos C. E. W. Hooijmeijer, Auteur ;
Zhengwang Zhang, Auteur ;
Theunis Piersma, Auteur
Capsule: Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa show sexual size dimorphism and size differences between the subspecies. The shape varies slightly between the subspecies, but not between the sexes.Aims: To investigate whether and how the three subsp[...]
Article
Tiago M. Rodrigues, Auteur ;
Marisa Rodrigues, Auteur ;
David Gonçalves, Auteur
Capsule: In comparison to other regions, the Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago in the Azores starts to display earlier and for a longer part of the year, but the laying period, although it starts earlier, does not seem to differ much from that ob[...]
Article
Alejandro A. Schaaf, Auteur
The orientation of the nest entrances of 464 nests of the Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus were explored in relation to vegetation cover along an altitudinal gradient in Argentina. There was no correlation between altitude and orientation for cove[...]
Article
Marcin Polak, Auteur ;
Mattia Brambilla, Auteur ;
Jan Jedlikowski, Auteur
Capsule: Wintering Water Rails Rallus aquaticus prefer small and narrow rivers, with large patches of wet emergent vegetation, and showed active response to playback, especially when they occurred in pairs.Aims: To investigate the habitat prefer[...]
Article
Łukasz Myczko, Auteur ;
Zuzana Mizerová, Auteur ;
Anna Maria Kubicka, Auteur ;
Tim H. Sparks, Auteur ;
Martin Hromada, Auteur
Capsule: Different methods of comparing bill morphology between woodpecker species show different, but not contradictory results.Aims: Differences among similar, closely related species which co-occur are still highly debated. In such a scenario[...]
Article
Piotr P. Kazimirski, Auteur ;
Mikołaj Kaczmarski, Auteur ;
Magdalena M. Zagalska-Neubauer, Auteur ;
Katarzyna M. Żołnierowicz, Auteur ;
Marcin Tobółka, Auteur
Capsule: There were no statistically significant differences in digit ratio between male and female chicks of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia.Aims: To test the hypothesis that the ratio of digit lengths was related to sex in White Stork nestling[...]
Article
Robin Séchaud, Auteur ;
Ana Paula Machado, Auteur ;
Kim Schalcher, Auteur ;
Céline Simon, Auteur ;
Alexandre Roulin, Auteur
We report detailed information about relatedness and parental investment in a communal nest in the Barn Owl Tyto alba. Two unrelated females laid their eggs in a single nest cup and successfully raised 4 nestlings out of 11 laid eggs. Apparently[...]
Article
Joana S. Costa, Auteur ;
Steffen Hahn, Auteur ;
Afonso D. Rocha, Auteur ;
Pedro M. Araújo, Auteur ;
Juanita Olano-Marín, Auteur ;
Tamara Emmenegger, Auteur ;
José A. Alves, Auteur
Capsule: A combination of several biometric measures enables the reliable sexing of the European Bee-eater Merops apiaster, a species with subtle sex differences in plumage and morphometry.Aims: To explore variation in biometrics and their suita[...]
Article
Gabrielle Cristina Pestana, Auteur ;
Erick Mateus-Barros, Auteur ;
Rhainer Guillermo-Ferreira, Auteur
Capsule: Parent body colouration and nesting habitat may influence nest predation risk and, therefore, influence parental decisions on offspring care.Aims: To investigate the adaptiveness of bird colouration under two different habitat and light[...]
Article
Jose E. Martinez, Auteur ;
Iñigo Zuberogoitia, Auteur ;
José M. Escarabajal, Auteur ;
Ester Cerezo, Auteur ;
Jose F. Calvo, Auteur ;
Antoni Margalida, Auteur
Capsule: Differences in parental investment between sexes and stage of the breeding period were found in Bonelli’s Eagles Aquila fasciata.Aims: To describe the sexual differences in parental behaviour of Bonelli’s Eagles and to assess the sex-sp[...]
Article
Lishi Zhang, Auteur ;
Xudong Li, Auteur ;
Jiangping Yu, Auteur ;
Shi Li, Auteur ;
Weiping Shang, Auteur ;
Zheng Han, Auteur ;
Yunlei Jiang, Auteur ;
Romain Lorrilliere, Auteur
We report nine cases of brood parasitism in the endangered Jankowski’s Bunting Emberiza jankowskii by cuckoos in Inner Mongolia Province, China in 2018 and 2019. DNA-based and morphological evidence suggested that five chicks and four eggs of br[...]
Article
Marcin Polak, Auteur ;
Mattia Brambilla, Auteur ;
Jan Jedlikowski, Auteur
Capsule: Wintering Water Rails Rallus aquaticus prefer small and narrow rivers, with large patches of wet emergent vegetation, and showed active response to playback, especially when they occurred in pairs.Aims: To investigate the habitat prefer[...]
Article
Tatyana S. Kovinka, Auteur ;
Alexander V. Sharikov, Auteur
Capsule: Voles predated by Long-eared Owls Asio otus were more likely to be female and smaller than the voles in the available population.Aims: Our study aimed to estimate the size and sex of prey in the diet of Long-eared Owls and compare them [...]
Article
Nicolas Strebel, Auteur ;
Hans Schmid, Auteur ;
Marc Kéry, Auteur ;
Thomas Sattler, Auteur ;
Peter Knaus, Auteur
Capsule:We used data from different sources, developed and applied several estimation methods, and confronted the resulting estimates with species experts to achieve breeding size population estimates for all bird species currently breeding in S[...]
Article
Andreia Garcês, Auteur ;
Isabel Pires, Auteur ;
Fernando Pacheco, Auteur ;
Luís Sanches Fernandes, Auteur ;
Vanessa Soeiro, Auteur ;
Sara Lóio, Auteur ;
Justina Prada, Auteur ;
Rui Cortes, Auteur ;
Felisbina Queiroga, Auteur
Capsule: A ten-year study of the causes of mortality in birds brought to a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Portugal, reveals that most deaths were due to trauma.Aims: This study aims to identify the main causes of morbidity and mortality in wi[...]
Article
Mark J. Whittingham, Auteur ;
Ailsa J. McKenzie, Auteur ;
Richard M. Francksen, Auteur ;
David Feige, Auteur ;
Tom Cadwallender, Auteur ;
Matthew Grainger, Auteur ;
Nadheer Fazaa, Auteur ;
Caroline Rhymer, Auteur ;
Catherine Wilkinson, Auteur ;
Pauline Lloyd, Auteur ;
Ben Smurthwaite, Auteur ;
Steve M. Percival, Auteur ;
Tammy Morris-Hale, Auteur ;
Clare Rawcliffe, Auteur ;
Claire Dewson, Auteur ;
Sarah Woods, Auteur ;
Gavin B. Stewart, Auteur ;
Elizabeth Oughton, Auteur
Capsule: Wintering Ruddy Turnstones Arenaria interpres occur in higher densities and their populations decline less on, or close to, offshore refuges than on mainland sites subject to greater levels of human disturbance.Aim: To compare wintering[...]
Article
Piotr P. Kazimirski, Auteur ;
Mikołaj Kaczmarski, Auteur ;
Magdalena M. Zagalska-Neubauer, Auteur ;
Katarzyna M. Żołnierowicz, Auteur ;
Marcin Tobółka, Auteur
CapsuleThere were no statistically significant differences in digit ratio between male and female chicks of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia.AimsTo test the hypothesis that the ratio of digit lengths was related to sex in White Stork nestlings, a[...]
Article
P. Warren, Auteur ;
C. Land, Auteur ;
N. Hesford, Auteur ;
D. Baines, Auteur
CapsuleBlack Grouse Lyrurus tetrix in southern Scotland are in severe decline, with remaining birds associated with large contiguous patches of moorland.AimsTo inform Black Grouse conservation programmes in southern Scotland we quantified recent[...]
Article
Natalia B. Zielonka, Auteur ;
Robert W. Hawkes, Auteur ;
Helen Jones, Auteur ;
Robert J. Burnside, Auteur ;
Paul M. Dolman, Auteur
CapsuleWithin the UK’s largest lowland Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata population, curlew preferentially nested on physically disturbed (treated) than undisturbed (control) grassland, and low nest survival rates were primarily attributable to p[...]
Article
Anthony Caravaggi, Auteur ;
Sandra Irwin, Auteur ;
John Lusby, Auteur ;
Marc Ruddock, Auteur ;
Allan Mee, Auteur ;
Tony Nagle, Auteur ;
Lorcan O'Toole, Auteur ;
Shane O'Neill, Auteur ;
John O’Halloran, Auteur
CapsulePatterns in the frequency and co-occurrence of anthropogenic pressures associated with suitable breeding habitat for Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus demonstrates the need for specific, focussed management and policy options aimed at mitigatin[...]
Article
Tiago M. Rodrigues, Auteur ;
Marisa Rodrigues, Auteur ;
David Gonçalves, Auteur
Capsule: In comparison to other regions, the Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago in the Azores starts to display earlier and for a longer part of the year, but the laying period, although it starts earlier, does not seem to differ much from that ob[...]
Article
Robin Séchaud, Auteur ;
Ana Paula Machado, Auteur ;
Kim Schalcher, Auteur ;
Céline Simon, Auteur ;
Alexandre Roulin, Auteur
We report detailed information about relatedness and parental investment in a communal nest in the Barn Owl Tyto alba. Two unrelated females laid their eggs in a single nest cup and successfully raised 4 nestlings out of 11 laid eggs. Apparently[...]
Article
Gaël Aleix-Mata, Auteur ;
Begoña Adrados, Auteur ;
Mathieu Boos, Auteur ;
Evelyn Marty, Auteur ;
Pierre Mourieres, Auteur ;
Gregory Tucat, Auteur ;
Nicolas Thion, Auteur ;
Marc Mossoll-Torres, Auteur ;
Jesús M. Pérez, Auteur ;
Antonio Sánchez, Auteur
Population estimates of male Western Capercaillies Tetrao urogallus were carried out during the mating season using two methods: counts of singing males and non-invasive genetic analysis. Estimates of male numbers were 50% lower using the singin[...]
Article
Alejandro A. Schaaf, Auteur
The orientation of the nest entrances of 464 nests of the Rufous Hornero Furnarius rufus were explored in relation to vegetation cover along an altitudinal gradient in Argentina. There was no correlation between altitude and orientation for cove[...]
Article
Tonio Schaub, Auteur ;
Arndt H. J. Wellbrock, Auteur ;
Jan Rozman, Auteur ;
Klaudia Witte, Auteur
Capsule: We developed a protocol for efficient monitoring of potential Common Swift Apus apus nest sites which considers variation in nest visit frequency across the breeding season and in relation to time of day and weather.Aims: To investigate[...]
