Category: Passeriformes

FIRST RECORD OF LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH (SEIURUS MOTACILLA) FROM COZUMEL ISLAND, QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) Science Article 2 abstract Cozumel Island is located in the Caribbean Sea between 20 16 and 20 36N and 86 44 and 87 02W, 17.5 km off the northeastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. We visited the island monthly from August 1994 to August 1995. During each visit, we performed 25 […]

FIRST RECORD OF LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH (SEIURUS MOTACILLA) FROM COZUMEL ISLAND, QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) Science Article 2 abstract Cozumel Island is located in the Caribbean Sea between 20 16 and 20 36N and 86 44 and 87 02W, 17.5 km off the northeastern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. We visited the island monthly from August 1994 to August 1995. During each visit, we performed 25 […]

SUCCESSFUL NESTING OF LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH IN WOODYARD HAMMOCK, LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) Science Article 1 abstract There are few published records of Louisiana Waterthrushes (Seiums motacilla) breedingin Florida (Stevenson 1961, 1978) and none indicating a successful nesting. Althoughterritorial birds were recorded at Woodyard Hammock, Tall Timbers Research Station,Leon County, during three breeding-bird censuses RICHARD BREWER, Fla. Field Nat. 20(3):77-78. 1992 Download article download […]

SUCCESSFUL NESTING OF LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH IN WOODYARD HAMMOCK, LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA

Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) Science Article 1 abstract There are few published records of Louisiana Waterthrushes (Seiums motacilla) breedingin Florida (Stevenson 1961, 1978) and none indicating a successful nesting. Althoughterritorial birds were recorded at Woodyard Hammock, Tall Timbers Research Station,Leon County, during three breeding-bird censuses RICHARD BREWER, Fla. Field Nat. 20(3):77-78. 1992 Download article download […]

The effect of helping behaviour on the survival of juvenile and adult long-tailed tits aegithalos caudatus

Long-tailed Tit (aegithalos caudatus) Science Article 2 abstract In the cooperative breeding system of the long-tailed tit aegithalos caudatus failed breeders may become helpers at the nest of another pair to whom they are usually related. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of helping behaviour on the survival of helpers and […]

The effect of helping behaviour on the survival of juvenile and adult long-tailed tits aegithalos caudatus

Long-tailed Tit (aegithalos caudatus) Science Article 2 abstract In the cooperative breeding system of the long-tailed tit aegithalos caudatus failed breeders may become helpers at the nest of another pair to whom they are usually related. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of helping behaviour on the survival of helpers and […]

Determinants of lifetime fitness in a cooperative breeder, the long-tailed tit aegithalos caudatus

Long-tailed Tit (aegithalos caudatus) Science Article 1 abstract Long-tailed tits (aegithalos caudatus) are a cooperatively breeding species in which helpers often invest effort in the provisioning of young that are not their own. We quantified the lifetime reproductive success (LRS) and the individual fitness, lambda, of 228 long-tailed tits using 8 years of field data. […]

Determinants of lifetime fitness in a cooperative breeder, the long-tailed tit aegithalos caudatus

Long-tailed Tit (aegithalos caudatus) Science Article 1 abstract Long-tailed tits (aegithalos caudatus) are a cooperatively breeding species in which helpers often invest effort in the provisioning of young that are not their own. We quantified the lifetime reproductive success (LRS) and the individual fitness, lambda, of 228 long-tailed tits using 8 years of field data. […]

THE NESTING OF SOME VENEZUELAN BIRDS

Long-billed Gnatwren (Ramphocaenus melanurus) Science Article 1 abstract I passed the interval from 15 March to 24 July 1966 at ‘La Araguata,’ a large cattle farmsituated among the hills near Pirapira, some 20 miles south of Valencia in the state ofCarabobo, Venezuela. Although most of my time was devoted to the study of the RufousfrontedThornbird […]

THE NESTING OF SOME VENEZUELAN BIRDS

Long-billed Gnatwren (Ramphocaenus melanurus) Science Article 1 abstract I passed the interval from 15 March to 24 July 1966 at ‘La Araguata,’ a large cattle farmsituated among the hills near Pirapira, some 20 miles south of Valencia in the state ofCarabobo, Venezuela. Although most of my time was devoted to the study of the RufousfrontedThornbird […]