| Titre : | Emu - Austral Ornithology 120(4) - October, 2020 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/10/2020 |
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Amélie Corriveau, Auteur ;
Marcel Klaassen, Auteur ;
Tara L. Crewe, Auteur ;
Mirjam Kaestli, Auteur ;
Stephen T. Garnett, Auteur ;
David A. Loewensteiner, Auteur ;
Rebecca M. Rogers, Auteur ;
Hamish A. Campbell, Auteur
Waterbirds commonly undertake extensive movements in search of resources. While much is known about waterbird movements within temperate regions where resource distribution is seasonally predictable, less is understood about waterbird movements [...]
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Belén Casalía, Auteur ;
Elisabet Vilacoba, Auteur ;
Pablo D. Lavinia, Auteur ;
Pablo L. Tubaro, Auteur ;
Ana S. Barreira, Auteur
Short wavelength visual sensitivity in birds is determined mostly by the type of photopigment present in the short-wavelength sensitive cone 1 (SWS1) which varies between clades and takes two main forms: the violet sensitive type (VS) and ultrav[...]
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Sam D. Heggie-Gracie, Auteur ;
Cheryl R. Krull, Auteur ;
Margaret C. Stanley, Auteur
Over 50% of the world’s human population lives in cities, and the rate of urbanisation continues to increase globally. Consequences of urbanisation, such as noise pollution and land use change, impact bird communities and movement dynamics. Furt[...]
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Carly E. Hawkins, Auteur ;
Isabel T. Ritrovato, Auteur ;
John P. Swaddle, Auteur
The prevalence of human-generated noise is posing novel challenges to birds, by changing how they communicate or causing them to disperse away from the source of noise. We sought to understand how noise affected space-use and social connectivity[...]
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Christine A. Connelly, Auteur ;
Erin Lennox, Auteur ;
Bronwyn Isaac, Auteur ;
Vincent Aulich, Auteur ;
Raylene Cooke, Auteur ;
Michael A. Weston, Auteur ;
John G. White, Auteur
Local native species that decline in response to urbanisation are often classified as ‘urban avoiders’. Their decline drives the biotic homogenisation seen in cities but the characterisation of these species as urban avoiders may discourage effo[...]
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Heather M. North, Auteur ;
Robert W. Lamont, Auteur ;
Steven M. Ogbourne, Auteur ;
Gabriel C. Conroy, Auteur
Habitat modification and destruction are known to be responsible for declines in avian taxa. Specialist species such as the vulnerable Glossy Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami ssp. lathami) are particularly at risk due to the limited numbe[...]
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Susan A. Robinson, Auteur ;
G. Barry Baker, Auteur ;
Candida Barclay, Auteur
Throughout the world, many parrot species have established wild populations outside their natural range through accidental escapes and deliberate releases from captivity. The Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus), native to coastal norther[...]
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M. T. Lohr, Auteur ;
C. A. Lohr, Auteur ;
A. H. Burbidge, Auteur ;
R. A. Davis, Auteur
In Australia, Toxoplasma gondii is an introduced parasite with a wide host range. House cats (Felis catus) are one of its definitive hosts. Little is known about T. gondii infection rates in Australian wildlife. Since cat abundance varies with l[...]
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Virginia E. Abernathy, Auteur ;
Wei Liang, Auteur
One of the most efficient defences against obligate brood parasitism in birds is egg ejection, where a host recognises and removes the parasitic egg from the nest. This defence often selects for egg mimicry in parasitic species to reduce the lik[...]
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Pascal Villard, Auteur ;
Gavin Hunt, Auteur ;
Jonathan Coll, Auteur ;
Jean-Jérôme Cassan, Auteur
The threatened Fairy Tern (Sternula nereis) is separated into three sub-species: S. n. nereis in Australia, S. n. davisae in New Zealand and S. n. exsul in New Caledonia. Poor breeding success was noted in S. n. exsul but the factors responsible[...]
