Titre : | Bird Study 61(3) - 2014 |
Type de document : | Bulletin |
Paru le : | 01/07/2014 |
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Article
Eva Banda, Auteur ;
Guillermo Blanco, Auteur
Capsule Red-billed Choughs showed strict mate and high nest-site fidelity. Changes of mate or nesting site were recorded only in cases of widowhood or collapse of the nesting sites (buildings). Aims To evaluate the relationships between mate fid[...]
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Matt J. Wood, Auteur ;
Peter J. Morgan, Auteur ;
Julia C. Webb, Auteur ;
Anne E. Goodenough, Auteur ;
Frank M. Chambers, Auteur ;
Adam G. Hart, Auteur
Capsule Pollen encrusted around the bill of migrating warblers can reveal marked differences in foraging ecology between bird species. Aims To examine patterns of the prevalence and diversity of pollen in four species of warbler, and explore the[...]
Article
Guillermo Blanco, Auteur ;
Oscar Frias, Auteur ;
Jesus A. Cuevas, Auteur ;
Jose L. Gonzalez, Auteur ;
Felix Martinez, Auteur
Capsule The hypothesized regional population size of a common species in Spain was found to be unreliable when compared with a complete and simultaneous single-species direct census. Aims To provide a regional census of Eurasian Jackdaws Corvus [...]
Article
Alison Johnston, Auteur ;
Stuart E. Newson, Auteur ;
Kate Risely, Auteur ;
Andy J. Musgrove, Auteur ;
Dario Massimino, Auteur ;
Stephen R. Baillie, Auteur ;
James W. Pearce-Higgins, Auteur
Capsule Heterogeneous detectability amongst species may impact multi-species bird surveys and if not accounted for, may bias community level conclusions. Estimates of detectability were produced for 195 UK bird species, and detectability was sig[...]
Article
Jennifer A. Bright, Auteur ;
Rob H. Field, Auteur ;
Antony J. Morris, Auteur ;
Andrew I. Cooke, Auteur ;
Jeremy Fern, Auteur ;
Philip V. Grice, Auteur ;
Will Peach, Auteur
Capsule Bunting densities decreased in winter wheat stubbles between November/December and January/February, but not in spring barley stubbles. Aims We investigated bird use and vegetation in relation to Agri-Environment Scheme over-winter stubb[...]
Article
Jan E. Ostnes, Auteur ;
Rolf T. Kroglund, Auteur ;
John A. Kalas, Auteur
Capsule By using a GIS-model to identify suitable breeding habitats for Great Snipe in Central Norway, we estimated a total of 276 leks holding approximately 2700 males. Aim To estimate the size of the Great Snipe population in central parts of [...]
Article
Will J. Peach, Auteur ;
Danaë K. Sheehan, Auteur ;
Will B. Kirby, Auteur
Capsule Mealworm provisioning increased clutch size and chick survival in garden-nesting House Sparrows. Aim We tested experimentally whether invertebrate availability limits reproductive success in garden-nesting House Sparrows Passer domesticu[...]
Article
Zuzana Musilová, Auteur ;
Petr Musil, Auteur ;
Jan Zouhar, Auteur ;
Vladimir Bejcek, Auteur ;
Karel Šťastný, Auteur ;
Karel Hudec, Auteur
Capsule Two nationwide monitoring schemes, the International Waterbird Census (IWC) and Atlas of Wintering Birds (AWB), provide comparable estimates of national population sizes of wintering waterbirds. Differences between these estimates for se[...]
Article
Conor T. Graham, Auteur ;
Mark W. Wilson, Auteur ;
Tom Gittings, Auteur ;
Thomas C. Kelly, Auteur ;
Sandra Irwin, Auteur ;
Oisin F. McD Sweeney, Auteur ;
John O'Halloran, Auteur
Capsule In Ireland, which has relatively low diversity of bird species, commercially mature plantation oak forests (aged 72-151 years old) have similar bird diversity to typical semi-natural oak woodlands, and higher bird diversity than over-bro[...]
Article
Ellen Magnusdottir, Auteur ;
Eliza H. K. Leat, Auteur ;
Sophie Bourgeon, Auteur ;
Jón E. Jónsson, Auteur ;
Richard A. Phillips, Auteur ;
Hallvard Strom, Auteur ;
Aevar Petersen, Auteur ;
Sveinn A. Hanssen, Auteur ;
Jan O. Bustnes, Auteur ;
Robert W. Furness, Auteur
Capsule Great Skuas Stercorarius skua wintering in different areas spent different amounts of time in flight (foraging or searching for food) and so may be experiencing different feeding conditions. Aims To compare the daily percentage of time s[...]
Article
John Calladine, Auteur ;
Robin J. Pakeman, Auteur ;
Elizabeth Humphreys, Auteur ;
Sally Huband, Auteur ;
Robert J. Fuller, Auteur
Capsule Changing agricultural activity and soil chemistry appear to be associated with some changes in breeding wader assemblages on the machair of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, between the 1980s and 2000s. Aims To identify potential factors in [...]
Article
Tim Hipkiss, Auteur ;
Edward Moss, Auteur ;
Birger Hörnfeldt, Auteur
Capsule Breeding productivity of 86 occupied Golden Eagle territories in northern Sweden varied greatly, with the upper quartile of the most productive territories being responsible for 44% of the total productivity of the studied territories. T[...]
Article
Gianpasquale Chiatante, Auteur
Capsule Habitat selection of Dartford Warbler Sylvia undata on Elba Island (Tuscan Archipelago, Italy) was analysed, considering 1-ha square plots (104 occupied and 104 unoccupied). Dartford Warbler occurrence was positively associated with garr[...]
Article
Martina Kasova, Auteur ;
Ladislav Nado, Auteur ;
Peter Kaňuch, Auteur
Capsule In pastured old oak woodland, breeding pairs of Eurasian Nuthatch selected territories with significantly higher densities of trees and cavities. Aims To define territorial borders that exist within a nuthatch population and to compare d[...]
Article
Richard K. Broughton, Auteur ;
Paul E. Bellamy, Auteur ;
Ross A. Hill, Auteur ;
Shelley A. Hinsley, Auteur
Capsule Radio-tracking and remote sensing showed Marsh Tits selected for English Oak Quercus robur trees within large winter home-ranges. Aims To investigate winter habitat selection by Marsh Tits in a British wood, testing for preferences in tr[...]
Article
Joël Broyer, Auteur ;
Olga Sukhanova, Auteur ;
Alexander Mischenko, Auteur
Capsule Improving habitat quality through late or intermittent mowing may increase passerine population density without reducing reproductive success. Aim To describe the relationship between passerine territory density (TD) and Whinchat Saxicol[...]
Article
Sarah H. Watts, Auteur
Capsule Chick age influenced female prey size and the provisioning rate of each parent while rainfall increased female brooding in a single sparrowhawk territory in Edinburgh. Aims To study the details of prey delivery, female brooding and the f[...]
Article
Tim Hipkiss, Auteur ;
Edward Moss, Auteur ;
Birger Hörnfeldt, Auteur
Capsule Breeding productivity of 86 occupied Golden Eagle territories in northern Sweden varied greatly, with the upper quartile of the most productive territories being responsible for 44% of the total productivity of the studied territories. T[...]
Article
Martina Kasova, Auteur ;
Ladislav Nado, Auteur ;
Peter Kaňuch, Auteur
Capsule In pastured old oak woodland, breeding pairs of Eurasian Nuthatch selected territories with significantly higher densities of trees and cavities. Aims To define territorial borders that exist within a nuthatch population and to compare d[...]