| Titre : | Ibis : The International Journal of Avian Science 153(2) - APR 2011 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Article
Peter Adamik, Auteur ;
Marketa Vanakova, Auteur
In behavioural studies it has been common to quantify plumage colours or ornaments over a range of dates and link them to fitness characteristics without accounting for seasonal changes in these traits. Such changes are likely to be widespread a[...]
Article
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur
There is considerable interest in understanding how management may help species and populations cope with climate change (climate change adaptation). I used a population model describing the demography of a southern range-margin European Golden [...]
Article
Richard B. Bradbury, Auteur ;
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur ;
Simon R. Wotton, Auteur ;
Greg J. Conway, Auteur ;
Phil V. Grice, Auteur
The Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata has recently expanded its range northwards and upwards in the UK, consistent with the hypothesis that this cold-sensitive species has responded to a warming climate. We interrogated distribution data, collected[...]
Article
Nathan J. Dorn, Auteur ;
Mark I. Cook, Auteur ;
Garth Herring, Auteur ;
Robin A. Boyle, Auteur ;
Jennifer Nelson, Auteur ;
Dale E. Gawlik, Auteur
Prey availability is known to limit reproduction of some species of nesting birds, but identifying the primary prey types of a species with a flexible diet can be challenging. For the White Ibis Eudocimus albus, a tactile feeding, medium-sized w[...]
Article
Nickson E. Otieno, Auteur ;
Nicodemus Nalianya, Auteur ;
Shadrack Chirchir, Auteur ;
Barnabus Mitei, Auteur
Article
Lynne E. Stenzel, Auteur ;
Gary W. Page, Auteur ;
Jane C. Warriner, Auteur ;
John S. Warriner, Auteur ;
Kristina K. Neuman, Auteur ;
Douglas E. George, Auteur ;
Carleton R. Eyster, Auteur ;
Frances C. Bidstrup, Auteur
Sex differences in adult mortality may be responsible for male-skewed adult sex ratios and male-skewed parental care in some birds. Because a surplus of breeding males has been reported in serially polyandrous populations of Snowy Plover Charadr[...]
Article
T. Santos, Auteur ;
J. J. Onate, Auteur ;
J. T. Garcia, Auteur
Article
Mark A. Colwell, Auteur ;
Jason J. Meyer, Auteur ;
Michael A. Hardy, Auteur ;
Sean E. Mcallister, Auteur ;
Amber N. Transou, Auteur ;
Ron R. Levalley, Auteur ;
Stephen J. Dinsmore, Auteur
Predation is an important cause of nest failure for many birds and has shaped the life-history characteristics of many species, especially ground-nesting shorebirds. We examined nesting success, causes of clutch failure and nest survival in rela[...]
Article
Magdalena Remisiewicz, Auteur ;
Joel Avni, Auteur
Article
Marianne C. James, Auteur ;
Robert W. Furness, Auteur ;
Alan S. Bowman, Auteur ;
Ken J. Forbes, Auteur ;
Lucy Gilbert, Auteur
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.) is the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis, the most common tick-borne zoonosis of humans in Europe and North America. Here, we assessed the relative importance of different passerine bird species as tick h[...]
Article
David R. Wells, Auteur
Female Calyptomena broadbills have 10 large primaries, whereas adult males have nine. At or before the main post-juvenile moult, males abort what appears to be juvenile P5. This creation of row space is accompanied by a shortening of the wing ti[...]
Article
Samuel A. Iverson, Auteur ;
Andrei Gavrilov, Auteur ;
Todd E. Katzner, Auteur ;
John Y. Takekawa, Auteur ;
Tricia A. Miller, Auteur ;
Ward Hagemeijer, Auteur ;
Taej Mundkur, Auteur ;
Balachandran Sivananinthaperumal, Auteur ;
Carlos C. DeMattos, Auteur ;
Lu'ay S. Ahmed, Auteur ;
Scott H. Newman, Auteur
Waterfowl in the genera Anas and Tadorna are suspected as vectors in the long-distance transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. The former Soviet Republics of Central Asia are situated at an important migratory crossroads for thes[...]
Article
Anita M. Donaghy, Auteur ;
Rhys E. Green, Auteur ;
John O'Halloran, Auteur
Knowledge of the timing of migration of young Corncrakes is required for effective implementation of conservation measures. Forty Corncrake chicks were radiotracked during the period between independence and departure from the natal area to dete[...]
Article
Fasheng Zou, Auteur ;
Guizhu Chen, Auteur ;
Qiongfang Yang, Auteur ;
John R. Fellowes, Auteur
A total of 134 bird species were recorded at Jianfengling, Hainan Island, in China from May 2000 to September 2004, of which 44 participated in one or more of 134 mixed-species flocks. These flocks averaged 3.8 +/- 0.2 species and 20.3 +/- 1.2 i[...]
Article
Andres G. Palmerio, Auteur ;
Viviana Massoni, Auteur
The status signalling hypothesis states that conspicuous male plumage varies among males and serves as an honest signal of male quality and competitive ability. We expected immature-plumaged males of the Saffron Finch Sicalis flaveola to feed th[...]
Article
Alexander N. G. Kirschel, Auteur ;
Martin L. Cody, Auteur ;
Zachary T. Harlow, Auteur ;
Vasilis J. Promponas, Auteur ;
Edgar E. Vallejo, Auteur ;
Charles E. Taylor, Auteur
The ability to monitor interactions between individuals over time can provide us with information on life histories, mating systems, behavioural interactions between individuals and ecological interactions with the environment. Tracking individu[...]
Article
Mark D. Walker, Auteur ;
Ian D. Rotherham, Auteur
Previous studies have failed to ascertain negative effects of the Swift Lousefly Crataerina pallida parasitism on Common Swifts Apus apus. Abundances of C. pallida were experimentally manipulated to create broods experiencing either enhanced or [...]
Article
Graham R. Martin, Auteur
Sensory ecology investigates the information that underlies an animal's interactions with its environment. A sensory ecology framework is used here to seek to assess why flying birds collide with prominent structures, such as power lines, fences[...]
Article
Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Auteur ;
Willem Bouten, Auteur ;
Cornelis Jan Camphuysen, Auteur ;
Edwin Baaij, Auteur
Adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus fuscus were followed during the breeding season using a high-resolution GPS tracking system. Little is known about the foraging movements of these birds and what they do when they are away from the colony. T[...]
Article
Daniel J. Mennill, Auteur
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Per Alström, Auteur ;
Takema Saitoh, Auteur ;
Dawn Williams, Auteur ;
Isao Nishiumi, Auteur ;
Yoshimitsu Shigeta, Auteur ;
Keisuke Ueda, Auteur ;
Martin Irestedt, Auteur ;
Mats Björklund, Auteur ;
Urban Olsson, Auteur
The Arctic Warbler Phylloscopus borealis breeds across the northern Palaearctic and northwestern-most Nearctic, from northern Scandinavia to Alaska, extending south to southern Japan, and winters in Southeast Asia, the Philippines and Indonesia.[...]
Article
Catherine E. Grueber, Auteur ;
Ian G. Jamieson, Auteur
The rediscovery of the Takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri in 1948 in the remote mountains of Fiordland, New Zealand, has been described as one of the greatest moments in ornithological history. The subsequent management of the population has become a[...]
Article
Lars E. Johannessen, Auteur ;
Dianhua Ke, Auteur ;
Xin Lu, Auteur ;
Jan T. Lifjeld, Auteur
The Ground Tit is a large parid species endemic to the Tibetan Plateau. Here we describe its genetic breeding system based on 2 years of fieldwork on a population from Damshung, Tibet. Genetic relatedness and parentage were analysed using 16 mic[...]
Article
Mark J. Carey, Auteur
Research procedures can have a detrimental effect on the reproductive success of the study species. In this study, the frequency of investigator disturbance on Short-tailed Shearwaters Puffinus tenuirostris was examined experimentally throughout[...]
