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WhinCHAT IV Paper show 2018 PaperPaper showshow 22019019 II`7`J`Y WGJ`-GWGJ`-G WWWJ`B GG On the following pages you will fi nd abstracts and summaries of new papers with a focus on Whinchats, mostly pu blished in 2019. English summaries are shown as available. Please help us to keep our “paper shows“ as complete as possible and send us abstracts of your newest publica ons (English preferred). Africa/Asia/Interna onal many Siberian Stonechats Saxicola maura Mancuso E, Toma L, Polci A, d’Alessio SG, Di present in the area, a prominent white su Luca M, Orsini M, Di Domenico M, Marcacci percilium and rela vely long wings piqued M, Mancini G, Spina F, Goff redo M, Monaco our curiosity. It had a buff streaked blackish F 2019: CrimeanCongo Hemorrhagic Fever face and crown, a strong white malar stripe, Virus Genome in Tick from Migratory Bird, and a bright orange throat and breast. The Italy. Emerging infec ous diseases 25.7, upperparts and rump were mo led dark, 14181420. DOI: h ps://doi.org/10.3201/ the tail was dark brown with white outer eid2507.181345 feathers. The bird was observed for 10–15 minutes and good photographs were taken They detected CrimeanCongo hemorrhagic (Plates 1,2). SO confi rmed that it was a male fever virus in a Hyalomma rufi pes nymph Whinchat Saxicola rubetra in breeding plu collected from a whinchat ( Saxicola rubet- mage. The Whinchat is a migratory pas ra ) on the island of Ventotene in April 2017. serine breeding in Europe and western Par al genome sequences suggest the virus Asia, east to the Ob river basin in Russia originated in Africa. Detec on of the genome and wintering in tropical Africa. Although of this virus in Italy confi rms its poten al dis Afghanistan could be part of the migratory persion through migratory birds. fl yway of individuals from the easternmost Asian popula ons, there has been so far only a single observer sight record from Afgha Rajabi AM, Ostrowski S 2019: First confi r- nistan and that needs verifi ca on. The med record of Whinchat Saxicola rubetra staff of the Wildlife Conserva on Society from Afghanistan. Sandgrouse 41: 93 94. have been present con nuously in Wakhan „On 29 May 2018 at 15.25 h AMR saw in Qila district (which became a na onal park in e Panja village (Wakhan district, Badakhshan 2014) since July 2006 and have recorded province, Afghanistan), a small passerine all bird observa ons in a database, but moving on the ground with small hops, in ours is the fi rst confi rmed record of Whin a wet meadow with sca ered sea buckt- chat in Wakhan and Afghanistan.“ horn Hippophae rhamnoides shrubs. It was feeding on insects or other small inverte brates. Ini ally thought to be one of the 98 WhinCHAT IV Paper show 2018 Germany suchungsjahr teils deutliche Unterschiede in Evers A, Sohler J, Hötker H 2018: Popu Abhängigkeit zur Intensität der landwirt- la onsökologische Untersuchungen zum scha lichen Nutzung in der Nestumge Braunkehlchen in SchleswigHolstein. Pro bung. Dabei legten Brutvögel an landwirt- jektbericht für das Ministerium für Energie scha lich intensiv genutzten Standorten wende, Landwirtscha , Umwelt und ländli signifi kant längere Distanzen zur Nahrungs che Räume des Landes SchleswigHolstein. suche zurück als solche an extensiv genutz Bergenhusen, 21p. ten / ungenutzten Standorten. Trotz erneut großer Unterschiede hinsichtlich der Habi Zusammenfassung: Im Jahr 2018 wurde das tataussta ung an den Neststandorten konn Projekt „Popula onsökologische Untersu ten diese Diskrepanzen im Jahr 2018 nicht chungen zum Braunkehlchen in Schleswig bestä gt werden. Weder hinsichtlich der Holstein“ im Au rag des MELUND im vierten Flugdistanzen noch der Dauer der Nah Jahr am MichaelO oIns tut im NABU wei rungsfl üge ergaben sich signifi kante Un tergeführt. Es wurden auf 2511 ha Pro terschiede zwischen den einzelnen Nest- befl äche in der EiderTreeneSorgeRegion standorten. In beiden Untersuchungsjahren (ETS) Untersuchungen durchgeführt. Insge war erneut eine starke Bindung an lineare samt konnten nur 26 Reviere des Braunkehl Saumstrukturen festzustellen. Diese wurden chens festgestellt werden. Damit verringerte vor allem von den Vögeln an landwirt- sich der Bestand im Untersuchungsgebiet scha lich genutzten Standorten während auf einen neuen Tiefstwert seit Projekt- der Nahrungssuche stark frequen ert. Aus beginn. Verglichen mit den Ergebnissen der diesem Grund erscheint das Ausweiten der SPAKar erung von 20082012 bedeutet dies vorhandenen Säume zu breiten Brachestrei eine Abnahme um etwa 75 % in etwa 10 Jah fen als eine zielführende Schutzmaßnahme ren. Von den 26 Revieren konnte bei 11 für Braunkehlchen im Wirtscha sgrünland, Brutpaaren eine erfolgreiche Brut festge um geeignete Strukturen zur Nestanlage so stellt werden. Neun Brutpaare verblieben wie ein gutes Nahrungsangebot in direkter ohne Bruterfolg und weitere sechs Revie Nestumgebung zu schaff en. Erste Erfahrun re wurden von unverpaarten Männchen gen mit alternierenden Brachestreifen auf besetzt. Eine Betrachtung der Daten aller Flächen der S ung Naturschutz SH wer- Untersuchungsjahre ergab, dass die Wahr- den disku ert. scheinlichkeit, in Revieren mit intensiver landwirtscha licher Nutzung fl ügge Jungvö gel zu erzeugen, signifi kant geringer war als Robra N, Stanik N, Thielen J, Rosenthal G in Revieren mit extensiver Nutzung. Auch 2019: Versuche zur Wiederansiedlung und der Anteil unverpaarter Männchen war in Lebensraumop mierung von Braunkehl Revieren mit intensiver Nutzung höher als chen (Saxicola rubetra) und Wiesenpieper in Revieren mit extensiver Nutzung. Einen (Anthus pratensis ) in der hessischen Rhön. Schwerpunkt der Untersuchungen stellte Jahrbuch Naturschutz in Hessen 18, 111 die Erfassung der zum Nahrungserwerb 115. genutzten Habitate, der notwendigen Flug Abstract: The chapter summarises the results distanzen, sowie der Dauer der Nah from fi eld experiments in largescale pastu rungssuche während der Jungenaufzucht res for the repopula on of the whinchat and dar. Daten aus den Jahren 2017 und 2018 habitat op misa on of the meadow pipit in wurden für insgesamt 16 Brutpaare ausge the Hessian part of the biosphere reserve wertet. Die Untersuchungen hinsichtlich Rhön. In the experiments, measures were der zurückgelegten Distanzen während tested to provide whinchats with more song der Nahrungsfl üge ergaben im ersten Unter- 99 WhinCHAT IV Paper show 2018 posts (bamboo s cks) and to increase habitat not aff ect fi rst-year survival of booted warb heterogeneity for meadow pipits. We found ler and yellow wagtail. The possible reasons that the increased number of song posts had of the observed apparent fi rst-year survival no posi ve eff ects on the repopula on of rates are discussed. We assume that obser- whinchats, which suggests the presence of ved low values could be determined by the addi onal limi ng factors in habitat quality. habitat quality in abandoned fi elds. The stu For meadow pipits, temporarily fallow areas dy was funded by the Russian Founda on for provided more heterogeneous ver cal ve Basic Research, grant number 183400466 geta on structures for nes ng and foraging, and 190401043. which resulted in a higher number of bree ding territories. The fi ndings highlight the specifi c importance of diverse habitat struc Shi kov D 2019: Nest survival of opennes tures and the need of considering landscape ng passerines: species diff erences, tem level limi ng factors for the conserva on of poral variability and the impact of weather these two groundbreeding bird species. condi ons. Zoologicheskiĭ zhurnal 98(12), 1408–1419. Abstract: Nest survival is one of the key life Russia history traits of opennes ng birds, aff ec Grudinskaya V, Makarova T, Samsonov S, ng the popula on numbers both directly, Grabovsky A, Shi kov D 2019: Low fi rst-ye through changes in breeding produc vity, ar apparent survival of passerines in aban and indirectly, via varia ons in the apparent doned fi elds. h ps://www.researchgate. survival of adult birds. This determines the net/publica on/335540899 importance of obtaining any reliable es - Abstract: The fi rst-year survival is one of the mates of nest survival and of iden fying the key life history traits in migratory passerines. environmental factors that aff ect this para Quan fying this trait is necessary to iden meter. A wide range of methods have been fy factors aff ec ng popula on dynamics. developed that allow for such es mates to be Here we used a longterm mark–recapture made. The objec ve of the present paper is dataset (2002–2018) to examine apparent to introduce Russianspeaking researchers to fi rst-year survival in three migratory passe the modern technique for es ma ng the nest rine species breeding in abandoned fi elds in survival as implemented in the free so ware northwestern Russia: booted warbler Iduna MARK. The analysis is based on a sample of caligata , whinchat Saxicola rubetra and yel 523 Booted Warbler, Iduna caligata nests and low wagtail Motacilla fl ava . We examined 553 Whinchat, Saxicola rubetra nests moni apparent survival rates of birds ringed as tored on abandoned fi elds of the Vologda nestlings using CormackJollySeber model in Region in 2005–2018. The daily survival rates MARK. The analysis was conducted for each of the nests failed to diff er between the two species separately and within the mul spe species and showed signifi cant interannual cies approach. Addi onally, we tested eff ect varia ons. Intraseasonal varia ons in the dai of the fl edge date on apparent fi rst-year sur- ly survival rates were weaker than interannu vival. Our results showed that apparent fi rst- al ones. The daily survival rate of the nests year survival rates were extremely low in all depended nonlinearly on nest age, this eff ect three species and reached the lower limits showing diff erent direc ons in diff erent ye known for migratory passerines.
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    Behavioural response of a migratory songbird to geographic variation in song and morphology Mortega et al. Mortega et al. Frontiers in Zoology 2014, 11:85 http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/11/1/85 Mortega et al. Frontiers in Zoology 2014, 11:85 http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/11/1/85 RESEARCH Open Access Behavioural response of a migratory songbird to geographic variation in song and morphology Kim G Mortega1,2,4*, Heiner Flinks3 and Barbara Helm2,4 Abstract Introduction: Sexually selected traits contribute substantially to evolutionary diversification, for example by promoting assortative mating. The contributing traits and their relevance for reproductive isolation differ between species. In birds, sexually selected acoustic and visual signals often undergo geographic divergence. Clines in these phenotypes may be used by both sexes in the context of sexual selection and territoriality. The ways conspecifics respond to geographic variation in phenotypes can give insights to possible behavioural barriers, but these may depend on migratory behaviour. We studied a migratory songbird, the Stonechat, and tested its responsiveness to geographic variation in male song and morphology. The traits are acquired differently, with possible implications for population divergence. Song can evolve quickly through cultural transmission, and thus may contribute more to the establishment of geographic variation than inherited morphological traits. We first quantified the diversity of song traits from different populations. We then tested the responses of free-living Stonechats of both sexes to male phenotype with playbacks and decoys, representing local and foreign stimuli derived from a range of distances from the local population. Results: Both sexes discriminated consistently between stimuli from different populations, responding more strongly to acoustic and morphological traits of local than foreign stimuli.