Mohring, Bertille Brischoux, François Angelier, Frédéric
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Avian Research
BackgroundLand-use change is one of the main drivers of the global erosion of biodiversity. In that context, it is crucial to understand how landscape characteristics drive the presence of rare endangered species. Nevertheless, it is also important to study common species in multiple habitats, because they represent a large proportion of biodiversi...
Cauchard, Laure Macqueen, Elise Isabella Lilley, Rhona Bize, Pierre Doligez, Blandine
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Avian Research
BackgroundIn bird species where offspring growth and survival rely on parents’ food provisioning, parents can maximise their fitness by increasing the quantity and/or the quality of preys delivered to their offspring. Many studies have focused on inter-individual variation in feeding rate, yet this measure may not accurately reflect the total amoun...
Zhang, Yashuai Wang, Fang Cui, Zhenxia Li, Min Li, Xia Ye, Xinping Yu, Xiaoping
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Avian Research
BackgroundOne of the most challenging tasks in wildlife conservation and management is clarifying which and how external and intrinsic factors influence wildlife demography and long-term viability. The wild population of the Crested Ibis (Nipponia nippon) has recovered to approximately 4400, and several reintroduction programs have been carried out...
Londei, Tiziano
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Avian Research
The study of seed dispersal, biotic seed dispersal, and even less, the role of birds in it, have been almost neglected in deserts. Virtually absent from the literature on seed dispersal are the ground-jays, genus Podoces, four species of the crow family that inhabit arid environments, even true deserts, from Iran to Mongolia. Although they are omni...
Nefla, Aymen Ouni, Ridha Selmi, Slaheddine Nouira, Saïd
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Avian Research
BackgroundThe Maghreb Magpie (Pica mauritanica) is an endemic North African species. Available knowledge on this species is limited to historic descriptive data with no ecological information provided. Populations continue to dramatically decline in Tunisia, where only one relic population survives. Investigating the breeding biology of this specie...
Fan, Liqing Gao, Lifang Zhu, Zhenqin Zhang, Xiaodan Zhang, Wen Zhang, Haiyang Li, Jianchuan Du, Bo
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Avian Research
BackgroundGreat diversity exists in the parenting pattern of altricial birds, which has long been considered as an adaptive response to specific environmental conditions but not to their life-history style.MethodsWe examined the egg-laying and nestling-raising pattern of the Grey-backed Shrike (Lanius tephronotus) that breeds only once a year on th...
Huang, Xiao Zhao, Yanyan Liu, Yang
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Avian Research
The Beijing Swift (Apus apus pekinensis) is a typical cavity-nesting bird that often nests inside holes and crevices in old architectures. Direct observation of their breeding behaviour is challenging and their breeding ecology is thus poorly studied. In this study, we analysed light-level geolocation data collected from six Beijing Swifts for the ...
Meshcheryagina, Swetlana G. Opaev, Alexey
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Avian Research
BackgroundIn the last decade, enigmatic male-like cuckoo calls have been reported several times in East Asia. These calls exhibited a combination of vocal traits of both Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus) and Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) advertising calls, and some authors therefore suggested that the enigmatic calls were produced by either Commo...
Li, Shi Li, Dan Zhang, Lishi Shang, Weiping Qin, Bo Jiang, Yunlei
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Avian Research
BackgroundThe Rufous-backed Bunting, Emberiza jankowskii, is an endangered species that is primarily distributed in Inner Mongolia, China. The main threats to the continued persistence of this species are habitat loss and degradation. However, the impact of population loss on genetic diversity remains unclear. To support future conservation and man...
Gustin, Marco Ferrarini, Alessandro
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Avian Research
The Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus) is a species of high international conservation interest. We analyzed its hunting behavior at the two largest colonies in Italy during the nestling period. Using accurate data-loggers, we tracked three adult Red-footed Falcons in June and July, 2019 and collected 4703 GPS points. We detected clear patterns ...
