Little Tern (Sterna antillarum) Science Article 3 abstract Large post-breeding gatherings of Little Terns Sterna albifrons are regularly observed in the Lagoon of Venice, Italy. Here, during five consecutive trapping seasons, 2956 birds were examined and ringed. Their breeding area, as indicated by 163 direct recoveries (mainly juveniles, ringed as chicks), spans over a broad […]
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Radio telemetry as a tool for impact assessment of wind farms: the case of Little Terns Sterna albifrons at Scroby Sands, Norfolk, UK
Little Tern (Sterna antillarum) Science Article 4 abstract Many seabirds travel widely to exploit variably distributed prey resources, utilizing even profitable patches only briefly as prey become available. Assessing the relative importance of areas occupied by wind farms relies on sufficient survey effort to increase the probability of detection and later assessment to an acceptable […]
Radio telemetry as a tool for impact assessment of wind farms: the case of Little Terns Sterna albifrons at Scroby Sands, Norfolk, UK
Little Tern (Sterna antillarum) Science Article 4 abstract Many seabirds travel widely to exploit variably distributed prey resources, utilizing even profitable patches only briefly as prey become available. Assessing the relative importance of areas occupied by wind farms relies on sufficient survey effort to increase the probability of detection and later assessment to an acceptable […]
Habitat selection and nesting association in four species of Charadriiformes in the PoDelta (Italy).
Little Tern (Sterna antillarum) Science Article 2 abstract Colony, nest site selection and interspecific associations of four breeding Charadriiformes werestudied in the Po Delta, Italy, in 1991. Physical characteristics (such as length, size, distance from mainlandand other islands, occurrence of small dunes, etc.) of eighteen islands and two peninsulas were considered;random points were selected on […]
Presence et nidification d’une Sterne voyageuse (Sterna bengalensis) dans unecolonie de Sterne caugek (Sterna sandvicensis) sur Ie Banc d’Arguin (France).
Lesser Crested Tern (Thalasseus bengalensis) Science Article 1 abstract Le Ier juin 1974, je photographiais une Sterne voyageuse (Sternabengalensis) en vol au-dessus de l’importante colonie de Sterne caugek(Sterna sandvicensis) du Banc d’Arguin (Bassin d’Arcachon, littoral atlantiquefranl;ais). Pierre Petit, Ardea, vol. 64, 1976 Download article download full text (pdf)
Initial orientation in two species of doves (Streptopelia senegalensis and Turtur abyssinicus) displaced from their home site
Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) Science Article 3 abstract The authors report data on initial orientation of laughing doves (Streptopelia senegalensis) and black-billed wood doves (Turtur abyssinicus) displaced to sites, on land and at sea, 1-40 km from their home ground which was near the coast, in the area of the ORSTOM Ornithological Station of Mbour, […]
aeRIAL SURVEY OF BREEDING LAPPET-FACED VULTURES AND MARKING OFCHICKS IN THE NAMIB-NAUKLUFT PARK
Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus) Science Article 3 abstract The monitoring and ringing of Lappet-faced Vultures (LFV) in the Namib-Naukluft Park (NNP) started in 1991. Annually more areas were investigated until most of the known breeding areas were checked and the chicks ringed. Peter Bridgeford, Vultures Namibia Download article download full text (pdf)
The Northern Lappet-faced Vulture in Palestine
Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus) Science Article 2 abstract I have deposited in the aviaries of the Zoological Society of London at Regents Parka living specimen of the Northern Lappet-faced or Sociable ulture (Torgost racheliotusnubicus (synonym, Otogyps auricularis)) which has not previously been recordedin Asia to our knowledge. Eric Hardy, The AUK, vil. 64 Download article […]
The use of (GACA)4 PCR to sex Old World vultures (Aves: Accipitridae)
Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotus) Science Article 1 abstract A PCR method was developed employing a single primer (GACA)4 to sex Black vultures (aegypius monachus), Lappet-faced vultures (Torgos tracheliotus), and Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus). Using the (GACA)4 primer several PCR products were generated. M. WINK et al., Molecular Ecology, Vol. 7(6), p 779-782 Download article download […]
Multiple nest use by the Laughing DoveStreptopelia senegalensis
Laughing Dove (Spilopelia senegalensis) Science Article 1 abstract Rowan (1983) made reference to multiple use of nests by the Laughing Dove: ‘