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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
doaj   +1 more source

Solent Disturbance and Mitigation Project Phase II: Predicting the impact of human disturbance on overwintering birds in the Solent. [PDF]

, 2012
The Solent coastline provides feeding grounds for internationally protected populations of overwintering waders and wildfowl, and is also extensively used for recreation.
Clarke, Ralph T., Liley, D., Stillman, Richard A., West, Andrew D.   +3 more
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UAVs unveil the role of small scale vegetation structure on wader nest survival

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
In this study, we combine high‐resolution vegetation structural metrics derived from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery with on‐field wader nest survival monitoring. We show that the immediate vegetation height and heterogeneity within a 2‐meter buffer surrounding the clutch of the recorded ground‐nesting wader species positively influenced its ...
Miguel Silva‐Monteiro, Miguel Villoslada, Thaisa Bergamo, Triin Kaasiku, Camilo Carneiro, David Kleijn   +5 more
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Þéttleiki og samfélög fugla á svæðum sem hafa verið grædd upp með framandi eða innlendum plöntutegundum [PDF]

, 2016
This paper was prepared as a part of the M.Sc. thesis of the first author at the Agricultural University of Iceland. We are grateful for the contribution of The Icelandic Soil Conservation Service, Náttúrusjóður Pálma Jónssonar and Kvískerjasjóður to ...
Davíðsdóttir, Brynja, Gunnarsson, Tomas Gretar, Halldórsson, Guðmundur, Sigurdsson, Bjarni D.   +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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Managing the Threat of Subsidized Predators for a Threatened Shorebird

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Subsidized predators—native predators that have become more common due to human activities—challenge the persistence of many at‐risk prey species and require creative solutions beyond lethal predator control. In an 8‐year study, we placed small wire cages over western snowy plover nests that allow passage of plovers, but not their predators, and ...
R. R. Swaisgood, R. L. Smith, J. G. Schuetz, T. Wooten, L. I. Vilchis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of nonnative Pacific oyster reefs as supplementary feeding areas for coastal birds on estuary mudflats [PDF]

, 2018
1. A combined empirical and modelling approach was used to investigate the value of a Pacific oyster reef to feeding shorebirds and to observe and predict the impact of reef clearance on bird populations in the Colne Estuary, a protected area in south ...
Baptist, Bax, Bowgen, Bowgen, Cadée, Cadée, Caldow, Clarke, Clarke, Escapa, Ferns, Fey, Goss-Custard, Goss-Custard, Goss-Custard, Guy, Hall, Herbert, Humphreys, Lejart, Lejart, Markert, Markert, McKnight, Nehring, Padilla, Piersma, Reise, Reise, Ruesink, Scheiffarth, Smaal, Spencer, Stillman, Stillman, Stillman, Stroud, Thomas, Thomas, Troost, Utting, Walles, Wonham, Wood, Zwarts   +44 more
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When and why to give shorebirds a head start

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Headstarting is a translocation technique involving the hatching or rearing of wild eggs or young in captivity and the release of those individuals back to the wild at or before independence. It has been trialed as a conservation intervention for shorebirds over recent decades to improve the population trend of target populations by increasing
Lynda Donaldson, Alex Nicol‐Harper, Rebecca Lee, Nigel S. Jarrett, Geoff M. Hilton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Free‐living Black‐tailed Godwits maintain constant intake rates across varying grassland habitat conditions by adjusting their foraging behaviour

Ibis, EarlyView.
Free‐living birds need to acquire enough food to fulfil their energetic needs, which may require more effort in habitats with less favourable conditions. Therefore, to maintain their necessary energy intake, birds need to adjust their foraging behaviour in response to varying habitat conditions.
Renée Veenstra, Mohamed Henriques, Timo Keuning, Jeroen Onrust, Matty P. Berg, Theunis Piersma   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source