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Urban green roofs provide habitat for migrating and breeding birds and their arthropod prey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The world is rapidly urbanizing, and many previously biodiverse areas are now mostly composed of impervious surface. This loss of natural habitat causes local bird communities to become dominated by urban dweller and urban utilizer species and reduces ...
Dustin R Partridge, J Alan Clark
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Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012 Sultana J., Borg J.J., Gauci C. & Falzon V. (con la coll. di Cachia D., Coleiro C., Galea R. & Gauci M.), 2011. The Breeding Birds of Malta. BirdLife Malta, 380 pp., € 33. Acquistabile tramite www.birdlifemalta.org o www.bdlbooks.com.
Tommaso La Mantia
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Novel Non-Invasive Biomonitoring Using Avian Faecal Sacs Reveals Dependence of Pesticide Exposure on Field Distance [PDF]
ToxicsPesticides remain among the most significant threats to biodiversity and natural ecosystems. Non-invasive methods, such as the analysis of bird faeces, have shown great potential for detecting pesticide exposure.
Moritz Meinken +5 more
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North American Breeding Bird Survey underestimates regional bird richness compared to Breeding Bird Atlases [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2022 AbstractStandardized data on large‐scale and long‐term patterns of species richness are critical for understanding the consequences of natural and anthropogenic changes in the environment. The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is one of the largest and most widely used sources of such data, but so far, little is known about the degree to which ...
Roi Ankori‐Karlinsky +8 more
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Elevational range and timing of breeding in the birds of Ladakh: the effects of body mass, status and diet [PDF]
, 2009 We studied the effects of body mass, status (resident or migratory) and diet on the breeding elevation range and timing of reproduction of the birds in the Trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, northwestern India.
Namgail, T., Yoram, Y.T.
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Year-round tracking of small trans-Saharan migrants using light-level geolocators [PDF]
, 2010 Since 1899 ringing (or banding) remained the most important source of information about migration routes, stopover sites and wintering grounds for birds that are too small to carry satellite-based tracking systems. Despite the large quantity of migrating
Afanasyev, Vsevolod +7 more
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Journal of Avian Biology, 2022 The northern wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe has an almost circumpolar breeding distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, but all populations migrate to sub‐Saharan Africa in winter.
Christoph M. Meier +4 more
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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2023 Black-throated blue warbler ( Setophaga caerulescens ) populations have been declining at the southern edge of the breeding range in North Carolina over the past two decades.
William B Lewis +4 more
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Foraging Strategies of Laysan Albatross Inferred from Stable Isotopes: Implications for Association with Fisheries. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Fatal entanglement in fishing gear is the leading cause of population decline for albatross globally, a consequence of attraction to bait and fishery discards of commercial fishing operations.
Ann E Edwards +4 more
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Observational study on the breeding performance of emus (Dromaius novaehollandiae) in Brazil [PDF]
Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2020 The objective of this study was to describe emus’ breeding performance in Brazil at different ages, grouped in couples or colonies. The duration of the breeding season and the production of eggs per female housed were recorded, and the productivity and ...
J.C.P. Quintero +5 more
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