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Aimy Caceres, Auteur ; Martim Melo, Auteur ; Jos Barlow, Auteur ; Ricardo Faustino De Lima, Auteur ; Michael S. L. Mills, AuteurSummary Natural habitats are being rapidly lost due to human activities. It is therefore vital to understand how these activities influence biodiversity so that suitable guidelines can be established for conservation. This is particularly import[...]Article
Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; Callan Cohen, AuteurBrazza's Martin Phedina brazzae is classified by BirdLife International as Data Deficient, and so improving data on population size, distribution and threats is a priority for its proper conservation evaluation. We recorded Brazza's Martin, prev[...]Article
Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; Fabio Olmos, Auteur ; Martim Melo, Auteur ; W. Richard J. Dean, AuteurThe forests of the Angolan highlands are the smallest and most isolated of the Afromontane centres of endemism. Despite their high biodiversity value and small, fragmented extent of less than 200 ha, they remain entirely unprotected. Here we dra[...]Article
Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; Martim Melo, Auteur ; Alexandre Vaz, AuteurAfromontane forest is the most localised and threatened habitat type in Angola. For the past 40 years the estimate of the area covered by this habitat in Angola has been c.200 ha. At present, 85 ha remain at Mt Moco, the most important known sit[...]Article
Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; W. R. J. Dean, AuteurDetails of 12 species and 16 species from species splits that are new to the list of birds for Angola are presented. Range extensions and new distribution records for a further 50 species, including 16 species previously considered to have very [...]Article
Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; Callan Cohen, Auteur ; Julian E. Francis, Auteur ; Negussie Toye, Auteur ; David Hoddinott, Auteur ; Abiy Dagne, Auteur ; Chris Wood, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurThe African lark genus Heteromirafra is thought to consist of three threatened species inhabiting mid-altitude grasslands, one in South Africa and two in the Horn of Africa. One of the latter, Archer's Lark H. archeri of Somaliland, has not been[...]Article
Aimy Caceres, Auteur ; Martim Melo, Auteur ; Jos Barlow, Auteur ; Paulo Cardoso, Auteur ; Francisco Maiato, Auteur ; Michael S. L. Mills, AuteurKumbira Forest is the best representative area of Angola's Central Escarpment and the only site known to hold significant populations of four of the five threatened endemic bird species of this habitat. However, the forest is disappearing as a r[...]Article
Michael S. L. Mills, AuteurDans Ostrich (84(3) 2013)Vocal mimicry is rarely observed among members of the Nectariniidae (sunbirds), with the only African species known to do so regularly being Socotra Sunbird Chalcomitra balfouri. Here I document and describe for the first time vocal mimicry by D[...]