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High fidelity: extra-pair fertilisations in eight Charadrius plover species are not associated with parental relatedness or social mating system [PDF]
, 2017 Extra-pair paternity is a common reproductive strategy in many bird species. However, it remains unclear why extra-pair paternity occurs and why it varies among species and populations.
Carmona-Isunza, María Cristina +5 more
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Can aggregate quarry silt lagoons provide resources for wading birds? [PDF]
, 2017 Wading birds have declined across Europe as the intensification of lowland agriculture has resulted in the loss and degradation of wetland areas. Lowland aggregate extraction sites that incorporate areas of fine, waste sediments deposited in silt lagoons
Day, George +3 more
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Avian botulism at a sugar beet processing plant inSouth Moravia (Czech Republic)
Veterinární Medicína, 2005 An episode of mortality in waterbirds occurred on a sedimentation reservoir with effluents from the sugar beet processing plant at Hrusovany n.J. (South Moravia, Czech Republic) in summer 2003: tens of black-headed gulls (Larus ridibundus), several ...
Z. Hubalek, V. Skorpikova, D. Horal
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2023 A new breeding record of Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius jerdoni is documented from Tamil Nadu. This observation highlights the need for a more extensive and comprehensive survey and monitoring of this subspecies from wetlands of both protected and unprotected areas of peninsular India.
H. Byju +3 more
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High daily energy expenditure of incubating shorebirds on High Arctic tundra: a circumpolar study [PDF]
, 2003 1. Given the allometric scaling of thermoregulatory capacity in birds, and the cold and exposed Arctic environment, it was predicted that Arctic-breeding shorebirds should incur high costs during incubation.
Amat +38 more
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Inter-specific nest scrape reuse in waders: Little Ringed Plovers taking over the nest scrapes of Northern Lapwings [PDF]
Bird Study, 2014 Capsule Inter-specific nest scrape reuse is rare in waders. We review this phenomenon and document it for the first time in the Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius breeding in vacant nest scrapes excavated by Northern Lapwings Vanellus vanellus.
Vojtěch Kubelka +2 more
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Assessment of Natural Resources Use for Sustainable Development - DPSIR Framework for Case Studies in Portsmouth and Thames Gateway, U.K. [PDF]
, 2014 This chapter reports on the uses of the DPSIR framework to assess the sustainability of the intertidal environments within the two UK case study areas, Portsmouth and Thames Gateway.
Beccari, M. +10 more
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