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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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Breeding record of Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius jerdoni Legge, 1880 (Charadriidae: Charadriformes) from Tamil Nadu, India

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, Yoganathan Natarajan, N. Raveendran, R. Kishore   +3 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, Martin Sládeček, Miroslav Šálek   +2 more
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Brood parasitism: the first nest of the Eurasian Oystercatcher in Lazio (Italy) could be an example

Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology
During the 2025 monitoring of the Kentish Plover, Anarhynchus alexandrinus, population nesting along the Lazio coast, a nest of a Eurasian Oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus, was found.
Loris Pietrelli
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Breeding populations of Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius and Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula in the United Kingdom in 2007

Bird Study, 2019
Capsule: The 2007 national survey of the UK breeding population of Little Ringed Plovers shows a further spread into Scotland and Wales since the previous survey in 1984. In contrast, there has been a significant decrease in the Ringed Plover breeding population.
Greg J. Conway, Graham E. Austin, Markus Handschuh, Allan L. Drewitt, Niall H. K. Burton   +4 more
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Estimating sex specific apparent survival and dispersal of Little Ringed Plovers (Charadrius dubius)

Ornis Fennica, 2015
Sex differences in survival have consequences to population dynamics making information on sex specific survival important. In birds, females often have lower survival than males, and one of the main mechanisms is considered to be differential reproductive investment.
Pakanen, Veli-Matti, Lampila, Satu, Arppe, Heikki, Valkama, Jari   +3 more
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Environmental Contaminant Accumulation in Freshwater Turtles Inhabiting Three Rivers of the Permian Basin, New Mexico, USA

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Freshwater turtles are valuable sentinels of aquatic systems due to their long lifespans and resilience in environments impacted by contaminants. The Permian Basin, dominated by the oil and gas sector, spans western Texas and southeastern New Mexico, USA, including the Pecos River and its tributaries, the Delaware and Black Rivers.
Ana G. G. Sapp, W. Gregory Cope, Christopher E. Moorman, Frank X. Weber, Ivana Mali   +4 more
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Breeding Under Pressure: Shorebird Reproductive Success Amid Urban Disturbance Along a Mediterranean Urban Waterfront

Birds
Ground-nesting shorebirds face growing pressure from recreational activities in coastal urban areas. We monitored the breeding success of Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) and Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) over six consecutive years ...
Selmane Chabani, Ghollame Ellah Yacine Khames, Imad Djemadi, Khalil Draidi, Imad Eddine Rezouani, Badreddine Mezhoud, Abdenour Moussouni, Kamel Eddine Mederbal, Salah Telailia, Badis Bakhouche   +9 more
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Exploring sources of uncertainty in the estimate of waterfowl harvest in the United Kingdom

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
There is an urgent need to gather data on harvest rates of waterbirds in Europe to assess the sustainability of hunting. Estimates of total waterbird harvest in the United Kingdom (UK) and the relative harvest of different huntable species come from two separate surveys, the Value of Shooting (PACEC 2014) and National Gamebag Census (NGC), and these ...
Matthew B. Ellis, Hannah M. Lewis, Tom C. Cameron   +2 more
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Artificial incubation and feeding of the Eastern Kentish Plover and the Little Ringed Plover

Japanese Journal of Ornithology, 1972
The results of the artificial feedings on two kinds of plovers are as follows;1. In chick stage the foods, mainly consisted of a mixture of boiled eggs and chickf oods, dried water-fleas and millet were given with larvae of grasshoppers, bees and cultured insects.
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