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Scottish Birds 22: 9-19
Scottish Birds THE JOURNAL OF THE SOC Vol 22 No 1 June 2001 Roof and ground nesting Eurasian Oystercatchers in Aberdeen The contrasting status of Ring Ouzels in 2 areas of upper Deeside The distribution of Crested Tits in Scotland during the 1990s Western Capercaillie captures in snares Amendments to the Scottish List Scottish List: species and subspecies Breeding biology of Ring Ouzels in Glen Esk Scottish Birds The Journal of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club Editor: Dr S da Prato Assisted by: Dr I Bainbridge, Professor D Jenkins, Dr M Marquiss, Dr J B Nelson, and R Swann Business Editor: The Secretary sac, 21 Regent Terrace Edinburgh EH7 5BT (tel 0131-5566042, fax 0131 5589947, email [email protected]). Scottish Birds, the official journal of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, publishes original material relating to ornithology in Scotland. Papers and notes should be sent to The Editor, Scottish Birds, 21 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 SBT. Two issues of Scottish Birds are published each year, in June and in December. Scottish Birds is issued free to members of the Scottish Ornithologists' Club, who also receive the quarterly newsletter Scottish Bird News, the annual Scottish Bird Report and the annual Raplor round up. These are available to Institutions at a subscription rate (1997) of £36. The Scottish Ornithologists' Club was formed in 1936 to encourage all aspects of ornithology in Scotland. It has local branches which meet in Aberdeen, Ayr, the Borders, Dumfries, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, New Galloway, Orkney, St Andrews, Stirling, Stranraer and Thurso, each with its own programme of field meetings and winter lectures. -
Two Oriental Turtle-Doves (Streptopelia Orientalis) Reach California Jon L
NOTES TWO ORIENTAL TURTLE-DOVES (STREPTOPELIA ORIENTALIS) REACH CALIFORNIA JON L. DUNN, 52 Nevada Street, Bishop, California 93514; [email protected] KEITH HANSEN, P. O. Box 332, Bolinas, California 94924 The Oriental Turtle-Dove (Streptopelia orientalis), also known as the Rufous Turtle-Dove (e.g., Cramp 1985) or the Eastern Turtle-Dove (Goodwin 1983), is a widespread polytypic Asian species that breeds from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific coast of the Russian Far East, including Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands. It also breeds in Japan (south to the Ryukyu Islands) and on Taiwan. It breeds south to west-central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Myanmar, and northern Indochina. In the Russian Far East its breeding range extends east to the Sea of Okhotsk and as far north as 64° N in the Lena River valley (Wilson and Korovin 2003). Although the species is resident in parts of its range, it vacates the entire northern portion of the breeding range (e.g., all of Russia) in the fall (Wilson and Korovin 2003). These migratory birds winter mostly within the range of residency farther south. Over large portions of northern, central, and western China, the species is only a passage migrant (see range map in Wilson and Korovin 2003). We report here on two records from California, both in the late fall and early winter: 29 October 1988 at Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, and 9–31 December 2002 at Bolinas, Marin County (California Bird Records Com- mittee 2007); archived photos and a videotape of the latter bird are stored with the record (2003-036) in the files of the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC) at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in Camarillo, California. -
Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula Albicilla in Gujarat: Status and Distribution, with Notes on Its Identification Prasad Ganpule
152 Indian BirDS Vol. 9 Nos. 5&6 (Publ. 2 December 2014) Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla in Gujarat: Status and distribution, with notes on its identification Prasad Ganpule Ganpule, P., 2014. Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla in Gujarat: Status and distribution, with notes on its identification. Indian BIRDS 9 (5&6): 152–154. Prasad Ganpule, C/o Parshuram Pottery Works, Opp.Nazarbaug Station, Morbi 363642, Gujarat, India. Email: [email protected] Manuscript received on 11 May 2014. Introduction The record from Thol, near Ahmedabad (Maheria 2014), The Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla is a winter migrant to identified as an Asian Brown FlycatcherM. dauurica is actually India. Its winter distribution is mainly to north-eastern, eastern, a F. albicilla. and central India, and the Eastern Ghats, reaching up to western Maharashtra, and Goa (Rasmussen & Anderton 2005; Grimmett Identification et al. 2011). No sightings from Gujarat are given in these texts, Since it is now established that F. parva, F. albicilla, and the but it has been reported from Morbi, Gujarat (Ganpule 2013), Kashmir Flycatcher F. subrubra occur in Gujarat (Grimmett et with the sighting of an adult male in April 2011. al. 2011; Ganpule 2012), identification and separation of the three in first winter plumage is quite challenging. Cederroth et Observations al. (1999) deal with the identification ofparva and albicilla. For I always suspected that the Taiga Flycatcher was more common the identification of first winterF. subrubra, see Ganpule (2012). in Gujarat than previously expected, and it could have been Some additional notes on identification of first-winterF. albicilla overlooked since it was considered a subspecies of the Red- are presented below: breasted Flycatcher F. -
A „Szőke Tisza” Megmentésének Lehetőségei
A „SZŐKE TISZA” MEGMENTÉSÉNEK LEHETŐSÉGEI Tájékoztató Szentistványi Istvánnak, a szegedi Városkép- és Környezetvédelmi Bizottság elnökének Összeállította: Dr. Balogh Tamás © 2012.03.27. TIT – Hajózástörténeti, -Modellező és Hagyományőrző Egyesület 2 TÁJÉKOZTATÓ Szentistványi István, a szegedi Városkép- és Környezetvédelmi Bizottság elnöke részére a SZŐKE TISZA II. termesgőzössel kapcsolatban 2012. március 27-én Szentistványi István a szegedi Városkép- és Környezetvédelmi Bizottság elnöke e-mailben kért tájékoztatást Dr. Balogh Tamástól a TIT – Hajózástörténeti, -Modellező és Hagyományőrző Egyesület elnökétől a SZŐKE TISZA II. termesgőzössel kapcsolatban, hogy tájékozódjon a hajó megmentésének lehetőségéről – „akár jelentősebb anyagi ráfordítással, esetleges városi összefogással is”. A megkeresésre az alábbi tájékoztatást adom: A hajó 2012. február 26-án süllyedt el. Azt követően egyesületünk honlapján – egy a hajónak szentelt tematikus aloldalon – rendszeresen tettük közzé a hajóra és a mentésére vonatkozó információkat, képeket, videókat (http://hajosnep.hu/#!/lapok/lap/szoke-tisza-karmentes), amelyekből szinte napi ütemezésben nyomon követhetők a február 26-március 18 között történt események. A honlapon elérhető információkat nem kívánom itt megismételni. Egyebekben a hajó jelentőségéről és az esetleges városi véleménynyilvánítás elősegítésére az alábbiakat tartom szükségesnek kiemelni: I) A hajó jelentősége: Bár a Kulturális Örökségvédelmi Hivatal előtt jelenleg zajlik a hajó örökségi védelembe vételére irányuló eljárás (a hajó örökségi -
Ectoparasites of the Laughing Dove Streptopelia Senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) (Aves: Columbidae) in Zaria, Nigeria
Lundiana 9(1):67-71, 2008 © 2009 Instituto de Ciências Biológicas - UFMG ISSN 1676-6180 Ectoparasites of the Laughing Dove Streptopelia senegalensis (Linnaeus, 1766) (Aves: Columbidae) in Zaria, Nigeria 1Lucas K. Adang, 2Sonnie J. Oniye, 2Augustine U. Ezealor, 3Paul A. Abdu, 4Joseph O. Ajanusi & 1Kennedy P. Yoriyo 1 Department of Biological Sciences, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Department of Biological Sciences, 3 Department of Surgery and Medicine, 4 Department of Veterinary Parasitology and Entomology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. Abstract A survey of ectoparasites of the Laughing Dove (Streptopelia senegalensis Linnaeus, 1766) was carried out in Zaria, Nigeria, to determine the prevalence, intensity and mean intensity of infestation. A total of 382 (231 males and 151 females) doves trapped from different locations in Zaria, Nigeria, were examined through plumage brushing. Eighty-eight (23.0%) of the birds were infested by the following six species of ectoparasites: lice – 32 (8.4%) Menopon gallinae Linnaeus, 1758, 37 (9.7%) Columbicola columbae Linnaeus, 1758, and 18(4.7%) Goniodes sp.; flies – 19 (5.0%) Pseudolynchia canariensis Macquart, 1840; ticks – 12 (3.1%) Argas persicus Oken, 1818; and mite: 1 (0.23%) Dermanyssus gallinae (Degeer, 1778). The frequency of single infestations (59 – 15.4%), was higher than that of double (27 – 7.1%) and triple (2 – 0.52%) infestations, though the difference was not statistically significant (p > 0.05). The males had a higher prevalence (55 – 23.8%) than the females (33 – 21.9%). However, this difference was also not significant (p > 0.05). Ectoparasites were collected from the birds through out the year, with highest prevalence (60.0%) in November. -
Bird Checklists of the World Country Or Region: Myanmar
Avibase Page 1of 30 Col Location Date Start time Duration Distance Avibase - Bird Checklists of the World 1 Country or region: Myanmar 2 Number of species: 1088 3 Number of endemics: 5 4 Number of breeding endemics: 0 5 Number of introduced species: 1 6 7 8 9 10 Recommended citation: Lepage, D. 2021. Checklist of the birds of Myanmar. Avibase, the world bird database. Retrieved from .https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?lang=EN®ion=mm [23/09/2021]. Make your observations count! Submit your data to ebird. -
India: Kaziranga National Park Extension
INDIA: KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK EXTENSION FEBRUARY 22–27, 2019 The true star of this extension was the Indian One-horned Rhinoceros (Photo M. Valkenburg) LEADER: MACHIEL VALKENBURG LIST COMPILED BY: MACHIEL VALKENBURG VICTOR EMANUEL NATURE TOURS, INC. 2525 WALLINGWOOD DRIVE, SUITE 1003 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78746 WWW.VENTBIRD.COM INDIA: KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK EXTENSION February 22–27, 2019 By Machiel Valkenburg This wonderful Kaziranga extension was part of our amazing Maharajas’ Express train trip, starting in Mumbai and finishing in Delhi. We flew from Delhi to Guwahati, located in the far northeast of India. A long drive later through the hectic traffic of this enjoyable country, we arrived at our lodge in the evening. (Photo by tour participant Robert Warren) We enjoyed three full days of the wildlife and avifauna spectacles of the famous Kaziranga National Park. This park is one of the last easily accessible places to find the endangered Indian One-horned Rhinoceros together with a healthy population of Asian Elephant and Asiatic Wild Buffalo. We saw plenty individuals of all species; the rhino especially made an impression on all of us. It is such an impressive piece of evolution, a serious armored “tank”! On two mornings we loved the elephant rides provided by the park; on the back of these attractive animals we came very close to the rhinos. The fertile flood plains of the park consist of alluvial silts, exposed sandbars, and riverine flood-formed lakes called Beels. This open habitat is not only good for mammals but definitely a true gem for some great birds. Interesting but common birds included Bar-headed Goose, Red Junglefowl, Woolly-necked Stork, and Lesser Adjutant, while the endangered Greater Adjutant and Black-necked Stork were good hits in the stork section. -
Characterization of the Recombination Landscape in Red-Breasted and Taiga Flycatchers
UPTEC X 19043 Examensarbete 30 hp November 2019 Characterization of the Recombination Landscape in Red-breasted and Taiga Flycatchers Bella Vilhelmsson Sinclair Abstract Characterization of the Recombination Landscape in Red-Breasted and Taiga Flycatchers Bella Vilhelmsson Sinclair Teknisk- naturvetenskaplig fakultet UTH-enheten Between closely related species there are genomic regions with a higher level of Besöksadress: differentiation compared to the rest of the genome. For a time it was believed that Ångströmlaboratoriet these regions harbored loci important for speciation but it has now been shown that Lägerhyddsvägen 1 these patterns can arise from other mechanisms, like recombination. Hus 4, Plan 0 Postadress: The aim of this project was to estimate the recombination landscape for red-breasted Box 536 flycatcher (Ficedula parva) and taiga flycatcher (F. albicilla) using patterns of linkage 751 21 Uppsala disequilibrium. For the analysis, 15 red-breasted and 65 taiga individuals were used. Scaffolds on autosomes were phased using fastPHASE and the population Telefon: 018 – 471 30 03 recombination rate was estimated using LDhelmet. To investigate the accuracy of the phasing, two re-phasings were done for one scaffold. The correlation between the re- Telefax: phases were weak on the fine-scale, and strong between means in 200 kb windows. 018 – 471 30 00 Hemsida: 2,176 recombination hotspots were detected in red-breasted flycatcher and 2,187 in http://www.teknat.uu.se/student taiga flycatcher. Of those 175 hotspots were shared, more than what was expected by chance if the species were completely independent (31 hotspots). Both species showed a small increase in the rate at hotspots unique to the other species. -
The Female/First Winter Kashmir Flycatcher Ficedula Subrubra: an Identification Conundrum Prasad Ganpule
GANPULE: Kashmir Flycatcher 153 The female/first winter Kashmir Flycatcher Ficedula subrubra: an identification conundrum Prasad Ganpule Ganpule, P., 2012. The female/first winter Kashmir Flycatcher Ficedula subrubra: an identification conundrum. Indian BIRDS 7 (6): 153–158. Prasad Ganpule, C/o Parshuram Pottery Works, Opp. Nazarbaug Station, Morbi 363642, Gujarat, India. Email: [email protected] Manuscript first received on 24 May 2011. Introduction Observations The Kashmir Flycatcher Ficedula subrubra is endemic to the The bird in question had orange spotting/mottling on the breast, Indian Subcontinent. It is a Red Data species categorised as which was almost absent on its white throat, extending up to Vulnerable (BirdLife International 2011). It breeds in the Kashmir the flanks. It had a white belly. It had darker/blackish wings, area and Pir Panjal Range (Bates & Lowther 1952; Henry 1955; grey on the sides of the neck, and dark brownish upperparts. Roberts 1992), and is known to winter in the Western Ghats and The tail and rump were completely black. It had a greyish-black Sri Lanka (Zarri & Rahmani 2004b). bill with a pale base to the lower mandible. The bill looked At c. 0900 hrs on 2 January 2009, in a patchwork habitat slightly longer and stronger than the bill of a typical parva. I comprising cultivation, scattered trees, and scrub near Morbi, took numerous photographs, referred books, and prima facie Rajkot district, Gujarat (22º49’N, 70º50’E) I heard a loud and identified the bird as a female Kashmir Flycatcher based on clear bird call: “sweet-sweet,” similar to the call of an Indian Robin the call and other identification features. -
India: Tigers, Taj, & Birds Galore
INDIA: TIGERS, TAJ, & BIRDS GALORE JANUARY 30–FEBRUARY 17, 2018 Tiger crossing the road with VENT group in background by M. Valkenburg LEADER: MACHIEL VALKENBURG LIST COMPILED BY: MACHIEL VALKENBURG VICTOR EMANUEL NATURE TOURS, INC. 2525 WALLINGWOOD DRIVE, SUITE 1003 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78746 WWW.VENTBIRD.COM INDIA: TIGERS, TAJ, & BIRDS GALORE January 30–February 17, 2018 By Machiel Valkenburg This tour, one of my favorites, starts in probably the busiest city in Asia, Delhi! In the afternoon we flew south towards the city of Raipur. In the morning we visited the Humayan’s Tomb and the Quitab Minar in Delhi; both of these UNESCO World Heritage Sites were outstanding, and we all enjoyed them immensely. Also, we picked up our first birds, a pair of Alexandrine Parakeets, a gorgeous White-throated Kingfisher, and lots of taxonomically interesting Black Kites, plus a few Yellow-footed Green Pigeons, with a Brown- headed Barbet showing wonderfully as well. Rufous Treepie by Machiel Valkenburg From Raipur we drove about four hours to our fantastic lodge, “the Baagh,” located close to the entrance of Kanha National Park. The park is just plain awesome when it comes to the density of available tigers and birds. It has a typical central Indian landscape of open plains and old Sal forests dotted with freshwater lakes. In the early mornings when the dew would hang over the plains and hinder our vision, we heard the typical sounds of Kanha, with an Indian Peafowl displaying closely, and in the far distance the song of Common Hawk-Cuckoo and Southern Coucal. -
The European Turtle Dove 1970-1990 Since the Nineties the European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia T
Part 2 in a series about the European Turtle Dove 1970-1990 Since the nineties the European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia t. turtur) has been de- clining in numbers in its original habitat. Status and conservation of In 1994 BirdLife International published the reasons why the European Turtle Dove has been decreasing since the 1970’s, namely due to the intensification THE EUROPEAN of agricultural practices on the breed- ing grounds, especially in Western Eu- rope. Secondly due to the hunting of European Turtle Doves on the wintering TURTLE DOVE grounds and during the spring migra- tion. Thirdly due to the droughts on the (Streptopelia turtur) wintering grounds in Africa (BirdLife compilation and photos by Charles van de Kerkhof International, 1994). Apart from the aforementioned specifi- cation of the decline of European Turtle Doves BirdLife International’s Birds in Europe: their conservation status from 1994 also provided solutions, namely to maintain and improve both the breed- ing and wintering grounds, especially reducing the use of agricultural herbi- cides. Secondly the hunting in spring should stop completely and the hunt- ing on the wintering grounds should be better regulated. The reason why little was known about the status of European Turtle Doves in the nineties was that nearly no re- search had been undertaken. Only in Great Britain and France was research conducted on European Turtle Doves. There was not a lot of specific data from other European countries available on population trends of these birds. © Aviornis International Page 2 European Turtle-dove at the front, Eurasian Collared Dove in the background 1990-2018 action plan in order to bring the European Turtle Dove back to a favourable conserva- In 2007 more knowledge was attained on the population of European Turtle Doves tion status in the European Union. -
Migratory Birds of Ladakh a Brief Long Distance Continental Migration
WORLD'S MIGRATORY BIRDS DAY 08 MAY, 2021 B R O W N H E A D E D G U L L MIGRATORY BIRDS OF LADAKH A BRIEF LONG DISTANCE CONTINENTAL MIGRATION the Arctic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and comprises several migration routes of waterbirds. It also touches “West Asian- East African Flyway”. Presence of number of high-altitude wetlands (>2500 m amsl altitude) with thin human population makes Ladakh a suitable habitat for migration and breeding of continental birds, including wetlands of very big size (e.g., Pangong Tso, Tso Moriri, Tso Kar, etc.). C O M M O N S A N D P I P E R Ladakh provides a vast habitat for the water birds through its complex Ladakh landscape has significance network of wetlands including two being located at the conjunction of most important wetlands (Tso Moriri, four zoogeographic zones of the world Tso Kar) which have been designated (Palearctic, Oriental, Sino-Japanese and as Ramsar sites. Sahara-Arabian). In India, Ladakh landscape falls in Trans-Himalayan Nearly 89 bird species (long distance biogeographic zone and two provinces migrants) either breed or roost in (Ladakh Mountains, 1A) and (Tibetan Ladakh, and most of them (59) are Plateau, 1B). “Summer Migrants”, those have their breeding grounds here. Trans-Himalayan Ladakh is an integral part of the "Central Asian Flyway" of migratory birds which a large part of the globe (Asia and Europe) between Ladakh also hosts 25 bird species, during their migration along the Central Asian Flyway, as “Passage Migrants” which roost in the region.