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Britain's First Two-Barred Crossbill
Britain’s first Two-barred Crossbill Andrew H. J. Harrop, Alan G. Knox and Robert Y. McGowan, on behalf of the British Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee Introduction isations that suggest that the three forms would Until 1998, the British Ornithologists’ Union be best treated as separate species (Benkman (BOU) compiled a single List of the birds of 1992; Elmberg 1993; Cramp & Perrins 1994; Britain & Ireland. Following a request from the AOU 1998). These differences are sufficiently Irish Rare Birds Committee, the BOU has since marked to be observable in the field. The His- then maintained a List for Britain alone (BOU paniolan Crossbill, now treated as a separate 1999). This has entailed ongoing work to sepa- species by the AOU (2003), is not discussed rate the two Lists and establish, among other here; for further information see Benkman things, the first acceptable records for Britain of (1994), Smith (1997) and Boon et al. (2006). those species and subspecies whose first British As a species, Loxia leucoptera was given its and Irish record came from Ireland. A number formal scientific name by Gmelin in 1789, of these were listed in recent BOURC reports in based on specimens of the American White- Ibis and by Bradshaw (2003). winged Crossbill brought to Europe from The first Two-barred Crossbill Loxia leu- Hudson Bay and New York. Therefore, early ref- coptera for Britain & Ireland was a female of the erences to this bird in Britain were generally Old World race L. l. bifasciata (hereafter under the name ‘White-winged Crossbill’ and referred to as bifasciata), shot at Grenville, near believed to relate to birds from America (e.g. -
RSPB CENTRE for CONSERVATION SCIENCE RSPB CENTRE for CONSERVATION SCIENCE Where Science Comes to Life
RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE Where science comes to life Contents Knowing 2 Introducing the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science and an explanation of how and why the RSPB does science. A decade of science at the RSPB 9 A selection of ten case studies of great science from the RSPB over the last decade: 01 Species monitoring and the State of Nature 02 Farmland biodiversity and wildlife-friendly farming schemes 03 Conservation science in the uplands 04 Pinewood ecology and management 05 Predation and lowland breeding wading birds 06 Persecution of raptors 07 Seabird tracking 08 Saving the critically endangered sociable lapwing 09 Saving South Asia's vultures from extinction 10 RSPB science supports global site-based conservation Spotlight on our experts 51 Meet some of the team and find out what it is like to be a conservation scientist at the RSPB. Funding and partnerships 63 List of funders, partners and PhD students whom we have worked with over the last decade. Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com) Conservation rooted in know ledge Introduction from Dr David W. Gibbons Welcome to the RSPB Centre for Conservation The Centre does not have a single, physical Head of RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Science. This new initiative, launched in location. Our scientists will continue to work from February 2014, will showcase, promote and a range of RSPB’s addresses, be that at our UK build the RSPB’s scientific programme, helping HQ in Sandy, at RSPB Scotland’s HQ in Edinburgh, us to discover solutions to 21st century or at a range of other addresses in the UK and conservation problems. -
Engelsk Register
Danske navne på alverdens FUGLE ENGELSK REGISTER 1 Bearbejdning af paginering og sortering af registret er foretaget ved hjælp af Microsoft Excel, hvor det har været nødvendigt at indlede sidehenvisningerne med et bogstav og eventuelt 0 for siderne 1 til 99. Tallet efter bindestregen giver artens rækkefølge på siden. -
The Flight Calls of Crossbills Migrating Over a Southern Pennine Watch Point in Autumn 2019
THE FLIGHT CALLS OF CROSSBILLS MIGRATING OVER A SOUTHERN PENNINE WATCH POINT IN AUTUMN 2019 D.H. Pennington, January 2020 INTRODUCTION In recent years, my birding interest has increasingly been focussed on autumn visible migration in the South Pennines. This has mostly taken place at Harden, on the border of South and West Yorkshire, in the company of Nick Mallinson and, until 2016, Mick Cunningham. In 2014, I began experimenting with sound recording at this site, and this, among several other benefits, soon had the effect of drawing attention to the variations in the flight calls of migrating Common Crossbills. At first, virtually all of these variations were shown by sonograms to belong to one or the other of just two ‘types’. However, this all changed in 2019, when despite it being a very poor autumn in terms of the number of birds passing over (see here for a yearly comparison), at least five different crossbill flight calls were detected. The aims of this article are to document these latest occurrences and, drawing on recently published research, put them into a wider context. CROSSBILL ‘TYPES’? Variability in the vocalisations of Common Crossbills has long been acknowledged, with their flight calls and excitement calls showing the most obvious diversification. However, several studies over the past three decades have shown that individuals are in fact very limited in their call repertoire, and that birds using any particular flight call will invariably use the same associated excitement call. Hence, each individual can be assigned to a vocal ‘type’ (see e.g. Groth 1993, Robb 2000). -
PARROT CROSSBILL Loxia Pytyopsittacus Borkhausen, 1793
HANDBOOK OF WESTERN PALEARCTIC BIRDS FINCHES PARROT CROSSBILL Loxia pytyopsittacus Borkhausen, 1793 Fr. – Bec-croisé des perroquet feeds on seeds of other conifers too, including Ger. – Kiefernkreuzschnabel spruce. Range usually restricted to N Europe and Sp. – Piquituerto lorito; Swe. – Större korsnäbb NW Siberia, but after irruptions may stay and A larger cousin of the Common Crossbill, with a breed elsewhere, e.g. in Scotland. Often associates proportionately heavier bill adapted to opening the with Common Crossbill, making similar irruptions harder cones of Pinus species. However, it also though less numerous. L. c. scotica, o, presumed ad, Scotland, Apr: drop of water on lower mandible makes bill appear L. c. poliogyna, 1stY a, Morocco, Mar: aa average somewhat duller red than curvirostra as can very chunky, but lower mandible still seems rather strong, and culmen is quite sharply curved. be seen from this extreme example photographed in the Atlas Mts. However, it is an imm a, and 1stS a, Finland, Mar: strongly curved mandibles, and depth Although amount of yellowish-green in plumage would indicate ad, as do seemingly greenish edges some older aa attain a somewhat redder plumage than this. Biometrics by and large the same as of lower mandible c. 45% of upper, while tip of lower in profile to most wing-feathers, safe ageing without handling unwise. (F. Desmette) for W & N European populations. (A. B. van den Berg) projects at most marginally. Post-juv moult tends to be rather limited, with 1stY often showing many old feathers. Note moult & Kalko (2009) we prefer to await further research before limit in greater coverts. -
EUROPEAN BIRDS of CONSERVATION CONCERN Populations, Trends and National Responsibilities
EUROPEAN BIRDS OF CONSERVATION CONCERN Populations, trends and national responsibilities COMPILED BY ANNA STANEVA AND IAN BURFIELD WITH SPONSORSHIP FROM CONTENTS Introduction 4 86 ITALY References 9 89 KOSOVO ALBANIA 10 92 LATVIA ANDORRA 14 95 LIECHTENSTEIN ARMENIA 16 97 LITHUANIA AUSTRIA 19 100 LUXEMBOURG AZERBAIJAN 22 102 MACEDONIA BELARUS 26 105 MALTA BELGIUM 29 107 MOLDOVA BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 32 110 MONTENEGRO BULGARIA 35 113 NETHERLANDS CROATIA 39 116 NORWAY CYPRUS 42 119 POLAND CZECH REPUBLIC 45 122 PORTUGAL DENMARK 48 125 ROMANIA ESTONIA 51 128 RUSSIA BirdLife Europe and Central Asia is a partnership of 48 national conservation organisations and a leader in bird conservation. Our unique local to global FAROE ISLANDS DENMARK 54 132 SERBIA approach enables us to deliver high impact and long term conservation for the beneit of nature and people. BirdLife Europe and Central Asia is one of FINLAND 56 135 SLOVAKIA the six regional secretariats that compose BirdLife International. Based in Brus- sels, it supports the European and Central Asian Partnership and is present FRANCE 60 138 SLOVENIA in 47 countries including all EU Member States. With more than 4,100 staf in Europe, two million members and tens of thousands of skilled volunteers, GEORGIA 64 141 SPAIN BirdLife Europe and Central Asia, together with its national partners, owns or manages more than 6,000 nature sites totaling 320,000 hectares. GERMANY 67 145 SWEDEN GIBRALTAR UNITED KINGDOM 71 148 SWITZERLAND GREECE 72 151 TURKEY GREENLAND DENMARK 76 155 UKRAINE HUNGARY 78 159 UNITED KINGDOM ICELAND 81 162 European population sizes and trends STICHTING BIRDLIFE EUROPE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION. -
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The Scottish Crossbill – what we know and what we don’t Ron W. Summers and Stuart B. Piertney Alan Harris ABSTRACT The Scottish Crossbill Loxia scotica is Britain’s only endemic bird. Given this status, together with its small population size and its assumed association with the few remaining scraps of native pinewood, the Scottish Crossbill has the highest of conservation designations. Its biology is poorly known, however, making it difficult to implement conservation measures. Here, we review some recent work which is investigating different aspects of the biology of crossbills in general and the Scottish Crossbill in particular. Museum, field and laboratory-based studies examining biometrics, vocalisations, feeding ecology, movements and genetics have now clarified some of the inter- relationships between the three crossbill species which are now recognised as breeding in Britain. Such efforts are also helping to identify the future research priorities required to maintain populations. 100 © British Birds 96 • March 2003 • 100-111 The Scottish Crossbill – what we know and what we don’t he Scottish Crossbill Loxia scotica is one so potential hybridisation between Scottish and of Britain’s most charismatic and, at the Parrot Crossbills was not regarded as an issue. Tsame time, one of its most enigmatic It is thought that the Scottish Crossbill is a birds: charismatic in that it is designated as relict species derived from a crossbill popula- Britain’s only avian endemic species and so is a tion which was isolated in the Caledonian pine flagship for natural heritage; but enigmatic in forests of Scotland when Britain became sepa- that there are still considerable gaps in our rated from continental Europe after the last knowledge about fundamental aspects of the glaciation (Nethersole-Thompson 1975; biology and ecology of crossbills in general and Murray 1978; Voous 1978). -
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Noms français des oiseaux du Monde par la Commission internationale des noms français des oiseaux (CINFO) composée de Pierre DEVILLERS, Henri OUELLET, Édouard BENITO-ESPINAL, Roseline BEUDELS, Roger CRUON, Normand DAVID, Christian ÉRARD, Michel GOSSELIN, Gilles SEUTIN Éd. MultiMondes Inc., Sainte-Foy, Québec & Éd. Chabaud, Bayonne, France, 1993, 1re éd. ISBN 2-87749035-1 & avec le concours de Stéphane POPINET pour les noms anglais, d'après Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World par C. G. SIBLEY & B. L. MONROE Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1990 ISBN 2-87749035-1 Source : http://perso.club-internet.fr/alfosse/cinfo.htm Nouvelle adresse : http://listoiseauxmonde.multimania. -
Red Crossbill Percna Subspecies Loxia Curvirostra Percna
COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Red Crossbill percna subspecies Loxia curvirostra percna in Canada THREATENED 2016 COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows: COSEWIC. 2016. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Red Crossbill percna subspecies Loxia curvirostra percna in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. xiii + 62 pp. (http://www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/default_e.cfm). Previous report(s): COSEWIC 2004. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the Red Crossbill percna subspecies Loxia curvirostra percna in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vii + 46 pp. (www.sararegistry.gc.ca/status/status_e.cfm). Production note: COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Tina D. Leonard for writing the status report on Red Crossbill, percna subspecies (Loxia curvirostra percna) in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada. This report was overseen and edited by Marcel Gahbauer, Co-chair of the COSEWIC Birds Specialist Subcommittee. For additional copies contact: COSEWIC Secretariat c/o Canadian Wildlife Service Environment Canada Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3 Tel.: 819-938-4125 Fax: 819-938-3984 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.cosewic.gc.ca Également disponible en français sous le titre Ếvaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le Bec-croisé des sapins de la sous- espèce percna (Loxia curvirostra percna) au Canada. Cover illustration/photo: Red Crossbill percna subspecies — Image courtesy of D.M. Whitaker. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2016. -
Parrot Crossbills in Britain
Parrot Crossbills in Britain Graham P. Catley and David Hursthouse ollowing an exceptional influx of Parrot Crossbills Loxia pytyopsittacus Finto Britain in the autumn of 1982 (Brit. Birds 76: 46, plates 12, 13 & 220) and subsequent wintering records, we decided to summarise all known past records of this species in Britain and to analyse the 1982/83 influx in the light of previous records and information from other European coun tries. Notes on those observed in 1982/83 also led to points regarding field identification and behaviour. Status of the species The Parrot Crossbill's breeding range is generally quoted (e.g. Vaurie 1959) as extending from Norway, Finland and Sweden east to northern Russia and sporadically south to the Baltic provinces, Poland, the German Democratic Republic and occasionally Denmark. It is nowhere very common, and in the USSR is comparatively common only in the northwest (Dementiev & Gladkov 1954). Breeding densities, like those of the Crossbill L. curvirostra, tend to be higher where there is a good crop of the preferred food source, in the case of Parrot Crossbills cones of pines Pinus. As the pine has a more consistent cone crop than the spruce Picea, the preferred food of the Crossbill, however, Parrot Crossbills can usually adjust to local food shortages by making smaller migratory movements than the highly migratory Crossbill (Nethersole-Thompson 1975). Thus, the Parrot Crossbill may be described as more of a resident or partly erratically eruptive species than the eruptive Crossbill. Migrants regularly reach southern Sweden and Denmark, mostly in late autumn and winter, and occasionally the Federal German Republic, and the species has been recorded exceptionally as far west as Britain and central Europe and also east into Siberia. -
Origin, Paleoecology, and Extirpation of Bluebirds and Crossbills in the Bahamas Across the Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition
Origin, paleoecology, and extirpation of bluebirds and crossbills in the Bahamas across the last glacial–interglacial transition David W. Steadmana and Janet Franklinb,c,1 aFlorida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611; bSchool of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287; and cDepartment of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 Contributed by Janet Franklin, July 19, 2017 (sent for review May 9, 2017; reviewed by Helen F. James and Joseph M. Wunderle) On low islands or island groups such as the Bahamas, surrounded Sink are the only evidence that either of these species ever re- by shallow oceans, Quaternary glacial–interglacial changes in cli- sided in the Bahamas. We chose these species to compare the mate and sea level had major effects on terrestrial plant and an- paleobiology of two extirpated passerines, one restricted today to imal communities. We examine the paleoecology of two species of continents and the other to an island. Breeding populations of songbirds (Passeriformes) recorded as Late Pleistocene fossils on S. sialis are confined today to continental North and Central the Bahamian island of Abaco—the Eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) America (Fig. 2). (The population on Bermuda arrived there and Hispaniolan crossbill (Loxia megaplaga). Each species lives to- within the past 400 y, with human assistance) (14). Vagrant day only outside of the Bahamian Archipelago, with S. sialis occur- (nonbreeding) records of S. sialis exist from the Bahamas ring in North and Central America and L. megaplaga endemic to (Harbour Island off Eleuthera) (15), Cuba, and St. -
Parc National La Visite, Haiti: a Last Refuge for the Country’S Montane Birds
Parc National La Visite, Haiti: a last refuge for the country’s montane birds Liliana M. Dávalos and Thomas Brooks Cotinga 16 (2001): 32–35 Le Parc National La Visite, situé au sud est d’Haîti, abrite le seul grand ensemble forestier de montagne du Massif de la Selle, composé de feuillus et de conifères. Cet article présente les archives et les données actuelles concernant la liste des espèces menacées et endémiques, bases sur des références bibliographiques et sur une visite effectuée début janvier 2000. Au moins 24 espèces endémiques et 12 espèces considérées comme menacées/presque-menacées dans la liste Birds to watch 23 sont présentes dans le parc La Visite, qui est de plus une zone privilégié pour le Pétrel diablotin Pterodroma hasitata et pour la Merle de la Selle Turdus swalesi. A cause de la déforestation important du reste de l’île, le parc de La Visite constitue clairement une zone de conservation pour la faune endémique et menacée d’Haîti. Nous espérons avec cet article attirer l’attention des visiteurs et des scientifiques sur ce parc, et ainsi accroître les efforts de conservations déjà entrepris. El Parque Nacional La Visite, al sureste de Haití, contiene el único remanente considerable de bosque montano y de pinos en el Macizo de la Selle. En este artículo resumimos los registros contemporáneos e históricos para el parque de especies globalmente amenazadas o endémicas, con base en la literatura y una breve visita en enero del 2000. Por lo menos 24 especies endémicas y 12 especies señaladas como amenazadas/casi amenazadas en Birds to watch 23 han sido reportadas en La Visite, y el parque es un refugio global para el Diablotín Pterodroma hasitata y el Zorzal de la Selle Turdus swalesi.