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Brood desertion by female shorebirds: A test of the differential parental capacity hypothesis on Kentish plovers [PDF]

, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine whether the energetic costs of reproduction explain offspring desertion by female shorebirds, as is suggested by the differential parental capacity hypothesis.
Amat, Juan A., Arroyo, Gonzalo M., Pérez-Hurtado, Alejandro, Visser G. Henk   +3 more
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Deteriorating rural ponds : A threat to overseas migratory wetland birds in Kurukshetra suburbs, Haryana, India [PDF]

, 2014
The present study addresses the problem of ongoing destruction of traditional age old rural wetlands in Haryana in the last 10 years. It is a grave issue which stands accelerated due to anthropogenic unawareness and in deliberate destruction.
Gupta, Rohtash Chand, Kaushik, Tirshem Kumar   +1 more
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Piping plover and least tern populations and habitat in western Iowa : final report, 1989. [PDF]

, 1989
During the 1900s, humans have converted much of the middle Missouri River from a slow-moving, meandering river into a narrow, fast-moving stream. These changes have been dramatically documented in Iowa.

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Threat-sensitive anti-predator defence in precocial wader, the northern lapwing Vanellus vanellus [PDF]

, 2016
Birds exhibit various forms of anti-predator behaviours to avoid reproductive failure, with mobbing—observation, approach and usually harassment of a predator—being one of the most commonly observed. Here, we investigate patterns of temporal variation in
A Amar, A Berg, A Liker, AG Paassen van, AM Wilson, B Hönisch, BA Crawford, BG Palestis, C Listøen, CK Ghalambor, D Baines, D Clode, D Holyoak, D Ratcliffe, DH Brunton, DMB Parish, DP Barash, E Rhoades, G Orłowski, G Orłowski, GB Grønstøl, GE Brown, GJ Fernández, GL Maclean, GS Helfman, H Akaike, H Galbraith, H Mayfield, H Schekkerman, I Byrkjedal, I Krams, I Krams, I Newton, J Gromadzka, J Kis, J Klicka, JA Vickery, Jakub Szymkowiak, JE Jónsson, JM Luginbuhl, JR Krebs, JR Walters, JR Walters, K Fletcher, KJ Mathot, KL Evans, L Sandoval, Lechosław Kuczyński, LY Zanette, M Andersson, M Bolton, M Marquiss, M Strnad, M Weggler, M Šálek, M Šálek, MA MacDonald, MCO Ferrari, NA Schneider, NA Schneider, Natalia Królikowska, OC Johansson, P Hendricks, P Kontiainen, PF Donald, PJ Ewins, R Development Core Team, R Montgomerie, R Parr, RA Laidlaw, RD Elliot, RE Green, RE Green, RE Ricklefs, Rebecca Anne Laidlaw, RL Knight, RM Coleman, RM Whittam, S Cramp, S Dale, S Eggers, S Rytkönen, S Wood, SC Stearns, SL Lima, SL Lima, T Caro, T Krama, T Krama, T Larsen, TA Sordahl, TA Sordahl, TE Martin, TH Clutton-Brock, TJ Hastie, V Ruusila, W Teunissen, Ǻ Berg   +97 more
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Avian diversity and their status in and around Bhindawas bird sanctuary, Haryana (India) [PDF]

, 2017
One year survey conducted in and around Bhindawas bird sanctuary in district Jhajjar, Haryana (India) from January, 2015 to December, 2015; revealed a total of 104 bird species belonging to 15 orders and 39 families.
Chopra, Girish, Jyoti, Jyoti, Rai, Deepak   +2 more
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Bird ringing report 1967-1968 [PDF]

, 1969
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Backhurst,G. C.
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Nest site selection and hatching success of Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius at the coast of Gulf of Riga, eastern Baltic Sea

Ornis Svecica, 2000
Nest site selection and hatching success of the Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius was studied on two sections of sand beaches in the Gulf of Riga (West coast and East coast), Latvia, in 1995—1996. The distance from each nest to the sea and to the forest, as well as nest success, was recorded.
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How common is albinism really? Colour aberrations in Indian birds reviewed [PDF]

, 2016
The file attached is the Published/publisher’s pdf version of the ...
Mahabal, A, Sharma, RM, Thakur, S, Van Grouw, H   +3 more
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Meadow birds in Sweden – population trends, effects of restoration and management [PDF]

, 2010
The area of Swedish wet meadows has decreased drastically during the last century due to cultivation and abandonment. During the same time the meadow bird fauna have changed considerably.
Berg, Åke, Gustafson, Tomas
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The avifauna of the Ghadira Nature Reserve [PDF]

, 1990
The Għadira Nature Reserve covers an area of about six acres of saltmarsh and has a protective, no-shooting zone of SOOm radius around it Excavation work, consisting of the removal of several tons of soil and the formation of islands in an open shallow
Gauchi, Charles
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