| Titre : | Bird Conservation International 31(3) - July, 2021 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/07/2021 |
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Insular species, particularly birds, experience high levels of speciation and endemism. Similarly, island birds experience extreme levels of extinction. Based on a 2012 taxonomic assessment, historically there were four reed-warbler species in t[...]
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The Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus is one of South-East Asia’s most threatened songbirds due to relentless demand for the regional cage-bird trade. The species was recently uplisted from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Critically Endangered’ only tw[...]
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White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis (WBH) is critically endangered, but we lack data on many aspects of its basic ecology and threats to the species are not clearly understood. The goal of this study was to analyse WBH foraging microhabitat selec[...]
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Min Li ;
Xinping Ye ;
Rong Dong ;
Xuejing Zhang ;
Hu Zhang ;
Xiaoping Yu
Reintroductions aim to re-establish a viable population within the indigenous range of living organisms, especially of threatened species. The population of the Asian Crested Ibis Nipponia nippon, a well-known ‘Endangered’ bird species, has incr[...]
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Alex Rollan ;
Antonio Hernández-Matías ;
Rafel Bosch ;
Albert Tintó ;
Roger Puig-Girones ;
Carles Castell ;
Joan Real
Understanding the environmental drivers of demographic processes is a prerequisite for providing the evidence-based conservation guidance and management actions required to address management goals at population level. Human activities, to which[...]
Article
Francisco Guil ;
M. Ángeles Soria ;
Víctor Ortega ;
Rubén García-Sánchez ;
Silvia Villaverde-Morcillo
Avian species often take advantage of human-made structures, such as perching on power poles, although this can lead to negative effects for both birds and infrastructure. It has been demonstrated that anchor-type pylons, with strain insulators,[...]
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Toby H. Galligan ;
John W. Mallord ;
Vibhu M. Prakash ;
Krishna P. Bhusal ;
A. B. M. Sarowar Alam ;
Fergus M. Anthony ;
Ruchi Dave ;
Alka Dube ;
Kartik Shastri ;
Yogesh Kumar ;
Nikita Prakash ;
Sachin Ranade ;
Rohan Shringarpure ;
Devendra Chapagain ;
Ishwary P. Chaudhary ;
Ankit B. Joshi ;
Khadananda Paudel ;
Tarik Kabir ;
Sakib Ahmed ;
Kazi Z. Azmiri ;
Richard J. Cuthbert ;
Christopher G. R. Bowden ;
Rhys E. Green
The catastrophic declines of three species of ‘Critically Endangered’ Gyps vultures in South Asia were caused by unintentional poisoning by the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac. Despite a ban on its veterinary use in 2006 [...]
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Thura Soe Min Htike ;
Philip D. Round ;
Tommaso Savini ;
Naruemon Tantipisanuh ;
Dusit Ngoprasert ;
George A. Gale
The Giant Nuthatch Sitta magna is a globally endangered species presumed to be declining, for which basic parameters of population and habitat associations remain largely unquantified. We focused on Myanmar, which potentially constitutes ~30% of[...]
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Wenyu Xu ;
Diana Solovyeva ;
Sergey Vartanyan ;
Haifeng Zheng ;
Vladimir Pronkevich ;
Ye Gong ;
Haitao Wang
The Scaly-sided Merganser Mergus squamatus is a globally ‘Endangered’ species breeding in north-east Asia. Limited by information on the geographic distribution of suitable habitat, the conservation management programme has not been comprehensiv[...]
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Mahmood Kolnegari ;
Greg J. Conway ;
Ali Akbar Basiri ;
Connor T. Panter ;
Mandana Hazrati ;
Maryam Shams Rafiee ;
Miguel Ferrer ;
James F. Dwyer
Avian electrocutions are a global conservation problem. Power outages associated with electrocutions are problematic for electric utilities focused on delivering reliable electric power. We used contextual data, photographs, line voltage, outage[...]
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Margaret T. Hirschauer ;
Kerri Wolter ;
Alexandra Howard ;
Brian W. Rolek ;
Christopher J. W. McClure
The ‘Endangered’ Cape Vulture Gyps coprotheres has been monitored across its range for decades through disparate studies varying in geographical scope and length. Yet, no long-term, range-wide survey exists for the species. Coordinated monitorin[...]
