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Rare Birds of California Now Available! Price $54.00 for WFO Members, $59.99 for Nonmembers
Volume 40, Number 3, 2009 The 33rd Report of the California Bird Records Committee: 2007 Records Daniel S. Singer and Scott B. Terrill .........................158 Distribution, Abundance, and Survival of Nesting American Dippers Near Juneau, Alaska Mary F. Willson, Grey W. Pendleton, and Katherine M. Hocker ........................................................191 Changes in the Winter Distribution of the Rough-legged Hawk in North America Edward R. Pandolfino and Kimberly Suedkamp Wells .....................................................210 Nesting Success of California Least Terns at the Guerrero Negro Saltworks, Baja California Sur, Mexico, 2005 Antonio Gutiérrez-Aguilar, Roberto Carmona, and Andrea Cuellar ..................................... 225 NOTES Sandwich Terns on Isla Rasa, Gulf of California, Mexico Enriqueta Velarde and Marisol Tordesillas ...............................230 Curve-billed Thrasher Reproductive Success after a Wet Winter in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona Carroll D. Littlefield ............234 First North American Records of the Rufous-tailed Robin (Luscinia sibilans) Lucas H. DeCicco, Steven C. Heinl, and David W. Sonneborn ........................................................237 Book Reviews Rich Hoyer and Alan Contreras ...........................242 Featured Photo: Juvenal Plumage of the Aztec Thrush Kurt A. Radamaker .................................................................247 Front cover photo by © Bob Lewis of Berkeley, California: Dusky Warbler (Phylloscopus fuscatus), Richmond, Contra Costa County, California, 9 October 2008, discovered by Emilie Strauss. Known in North America including Alaska from over 30 records, the Dusky is the Old World Warbler most frequent in western North America south of Alaska, with 13 records from California and 2 from Baja California. Back cover “Featured Photos” by © Kurt A. Radamaker of Fountain Hills, Arizona: Aztec Thrush (Ridgwayia pinicola), re- cently fledged juvenile, Mesa del Campanero, about 20 km west of Yecora, Sonora, Mexico, 1 September 2007. -
Birdlife International for the Input of Analyses, Technical Information, Advice, Ideas, Research Papers, Peer Review and Comment
UNEP/CMS/ScC16/Doc.10 Annex 2b CMS Scientific Council: Flyway Working Group Reviews Review 2: Review of Current Knowledge of Bird Flyways, Principal Knowledge Gaps and Conservation Priorities Compiled by: JEFF KIRBY Just Ecology Brookend House, Old Brookend, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, GL13 9SQ, U.K. June 2010 Acknowledgements I am grateful to colleagues at BirdLife International for the input of analyses, technical information, advice, ideas, research papers, peer review and comment. Thus, I extend my gratitude to my lead contact at the BirdLife Secretariat, Ali Stattersfield, and to Tris Allinson, Jonathan Barnard, Stuart Butchart, John Croxall, Mike Evans, Lincoln Fishpool, Richard Grimmett, Vicky Jones and Ian May. In addition, John Sherwell worked enthusiastically and efficiently to provide many key publications, at short notice, and I’m grateful to him for that. I also thank the authors of, and contributors to, Kirby et al. (2008) which was a major review of the status of migratory bird species and which laid the foundations for this work. Borja Heredia, from CMS, and Taej Mundkur, from Wetlands International, also provided much helpful advice and assistance, and were instrumental in steering the work. I wish to thank Tim Jones as well (the compiler of a parallel review of CMS instruments) for his advice, comment and technical inputs; and also Simon Delany of Wetlands International. Various members of the CMS Flyway Working Group, and other representatives from CMS, BirdLife and Wetlands International networks, responded to requests for advice and comment and for this I wish to thank: Olivier Biber, Joost Brouwer, Nicola Crockford, Carlo C. Custodio, Tim Dodman, Roger Jaensch, Jelena Kralj, Angus Middleton, Narelle Montgomery, Cristina Morales, Paul Kariuki Ndang'ang'a, Paul O’Neill, Herb Raffaele and David Stroud. -
Evolution of Correlated Complexity in the Radically Different Courtship Signals of Birds-Of-Paradise
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/351437; this version posted June 20, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. Evolution of correlated complexity in the radically different courtship signals of birds-of-paradise 5 Russell A. Ligon1,2*, Christopher D. Diaz1, Janelle L. Morano1, Jolyon Troscianko3, Martin Stevens3, Annalyse Moskeland1†, Timothy G. Laman4, Edwin Scholes III1 1- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca, NY, USA. 10 2- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. 3- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Science, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK 4- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 15 † Current address: Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK *Author for correspondence: [email protected] ORCID: Russell Ligon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0195-8275 20 Janelle Morano https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5950-3313 Edwin Scholes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7724-3201 [email protected] [email protected] 25 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 30 keywords: ornament, complexity, behavioral analyses, sensory ecology, phenotypic radiation 35 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/351437; this version posted June 20, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. -
Disaggregation of Bird Families Listed on Cms Appendix Ii
Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals 2nd Meeting of the Sessional Committee of the CMS Scientific Council (ScC-SC2) Bonn, Germany, 10 – 14 July 2017 UNEP/CMS/ScC-SC2/Inf.3 DISAGGREGATION OF BIRD FAMILIES LISTED ON CMS APPENDIX II (Prepared by the Appointed Councillors for Birds) Summary: The first meeting of the Sessional Committee of the Scientific Council identified the adoption of a new standard reference for avian taxonomy as an opportunity to disaggregate the higher-level taxa listed on Appendix II and to identify those that are considered to be migratory species and that have an unfavourable conservation status. The current paper presents an initial analysis of the higher-level disaggregation using the Handbook of the Birds of the World/BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World Volumes 1 and 2 taxonomy, and identifies the challenges in completing the analysis to identify all of the migratory species and the corresponding Range States. The document has been prepared by the COP Appointed Scientific Councilors for Birds. This is a supplementary paper to COP document UNEP/CMS/COP12/Doc.25.3 on Taxonomy and Nomenclature UNEP/CMS/ScC-Sc2/Inf.3 DISAGGREGATION OF BIRD FAMILIES LISTED ON CMS APPENDIX II 1. Through Resolution 11.19, the Conference of Parties adopted as the standard reference for bird taxonomy and nomenclature for Non-Passerine species the Handbook of the Birds of the World/BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, Volume 1: Non-Passerines, by Josep del Hoyo and Nigel J. Collar (2014); 2. -
Management and Breeding of Birds of Paradise (Family Paradisaeidae) at the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation
Management and breeding of Birds of Paradise (family Paradisaeidae) at the Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation. By Richard Switzer Bird Curator, Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation. Presentation for Aviary Congress Singapore, November 2008 Introduction to Birds of Paradise in the Wild Taxonomy The family Paradisaeidae is in the order Passeriformes. In the past decade since the publication of Frith and Beehler (1998), the taxonomy of the family Paradisaeidae has been re-evaluated considerably. Frith and Beehler (1998) listed 42 species in 17 genera. However, the monotypic genus Macgregoria (MacGregor’s Bird of Paradise) has been re-classified in the family Meliphagidae (Honeyeaters). Similarly, 3 species in 2 genera (Cnemophilus and Loboparadisea) – formerly described as the “Wide-gaped Birds of Paradise” – have been re-classified as members of the family Melanocharitidae (Berrypeckers and Longbills) (Cracraft and Feinstein 2000). Additionally the two genera of Sicklebills (Epimachus and Drepanornis) are now considered to be combined as the one genus Epimachus. These changes reduce the total number of genera in the family Paradisaeidae to 13. However, despite the elimination of the 4 species mentioned above, 3 species have been newly described – Berlepsch's Parotia (P. berlepschi), Eastern or Helen’s Parotia (P. helenae) and the Eastern or Growling Riflebird (P. intercedens). The Berlepsch’s Parotia was once considered to be a subspecies of the Carola's Parotia. It was previously known only from four female specimens, discovered in 1985. It was rediscovered during a Conservation International expedition in 2005 and was photographed for the first time. The Eastern Parotia, also known as Helena's Parotia, is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Lawes's Parotia, but differs in the male’s frontal crest and the female's dorsal plumage colours. -
Karl Jordan: a Life in Systematics
AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Kristin Renee Johnson for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History of SciencePresented on July 21, 2003. Title: Karl Jordan: A Life in Systematics Abstract approved: Paul Lawrence Farber Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the modem evolutionary synthesis. These accounts, while useful, have primarily examined the natural history of the period in view of how it led to developments in the 193 Os and 40s, removing pre-Synthesis naturalists like Jordan from their research programs, institutional contexts, and disciplinary homes, for the sake of synthesis narratives. This dissertation redresses this picture by examining a naturalist, who, although often cited as important in the synthesis, is more accurately viewed as a man working on the problems of an earlier period. This study examines the specific problems that concerned Jordan, as well as the dynamic institutional, international, theoretical and methodological context of entomology and natural history during his lifetime. It focuses upon how the context in which natural history has been done changed greatly during Jordan's life time, and discusses the role of these changes in both placing naturalists on the defensive among an array of new disciplines and attitudes in science, and providing them with new tools and justifications for doing natural history. One of the primary intents of this study is to demonstrate the many different motives and conditions through which naturalists came to and worked in natural history. -
The Avifauna of Mt. Karimui, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea, Including Evidence for Long-Term Population Dynamics in Undisturbed Tropical Forest
Ben Freeman & Alexandra M. Class Freeman 30 Bull. B.O.C. 2014 134(1) The avifauna of Mt. Karimui, Chimbu Province, Papua New Guinea, including evidence for long-term population dynamics in undisturbed tropical forest Ben Freeman & Alexandra M. Class Freeman Received 27 July 2013 Summary.—We conducted ornithological feld work on Mt. Karimui and in the surrounding lowlands in 2011–12, a site frst surveyed for birds by J. Diamond in 1965. We report range extensions, elevational records and notes on poorly known species observed during our work. We also present a list with elevational distributions for the 271 species recorded in the Karimui region. Finally, we detail possible changes in species abundance and distribution that have occurred between Diamond’s feld work and our own. Most prominently, we suggest that Bicolored Mouse-warbler Crateroscelis nigrorufa might recently have colonised Mt. Karimui’s north-western ridge, a rare example of distributional change in an avian population inhabiting intact tropical forests. The island of New Guinea harbours a diverse, largely endemic avifauna (Beehler et al. 1986). However, ornithological studies are hampered by difculties of access, safety and cost. Consequently, many of its endemic birds remain poorly known, and feld workers continue to describe new taxa (Prat 2000, Beehler et al. 2007), report large range extensions (Freeman et al. 2013) and elucidate natural history (Dumbacher et al. 1992). Of necessity, avifaunal studies are usually based on short-term feld work. As a result, population dynamics are poorly known and limited to comparisons of diferent surveys or diferences noticeable over short timescales (Diamond 1971, Mack & Wright 1996). -
Photographic Evidence of Nectar-Feeding by the White-Throated Treecreeper Cormobates Leucophaea
103 AUSTRALIAN FIELD ORNITHOLOGY 2009, 26, 103–104 A White-throated Treecreeper feeding upon the nectar of Umbrella Tree flowers by tongue lapping, near Malanda, north Qld Plate 17 Photo: Clifford B. Frith Photographic Evidence of Nectar-feeding by the White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea CLIFFORD B. FRITH P.O. Box 581, Malanda, Queensland 4885 (Email: [email protected]) Summary. An individual of the north-eastern Australian subspecies of the White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea minor was closely observed and photographed while clearly feeding upon nectar from the flowers of an Umbrella Tree Schefflera actinophylla. Although the few other records of nectar-feeding by treecreepers (Family Climacteridae) are reviewed, this note presents the first substantiated evidence of nectar-feeding by Australasian treecreepers. The most recent review of the biology of the Family Climacteridae as a whole described treecreepers as taking nectar from flowers at times (Noske 2007). However, few published records of nectar-feeding by any of the six Australian treecreeper species exist. Of the five species of the genus Climacteris, only one (the Brown Treecreeper C. picumnus) is known to occasionally drink nectar from ironbarks such as Mugga Eucalyptus sideroxylon (V. & E. Doerr, cited in Higgins et al. 2001) and from paperbarks (Orenstein 1977). The Black-tailed Treecreeper C. melanura has been observed feeding on the Banksia-like inflorescences of the FRITH: AUSTRALIAN 104 White-throated Treecreeper Eating Nectar FIELD ORNITHOLOGY Bridal Tree Xanthostemon paradoxus, another myrtaceous species (R. Noske pers. comm.). The White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea was recently described as ‘Almost wholly insectivorous, mainly bark-dwelling ants; occasionally take some plant material’ (Higgins et al. -
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Volume Eleven Conservation Science 2016 Western Australia Review and synthesis of knowledge of insular ecology, with emphasis on the islands of Western Australia IAN ABBOTT and ALLAN WILLS i TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT 1 INTRODUCTION 2 METHODS 17 Data sources 17 Personal knowledge 17 Assumptions 17 Nomenclatural conventions 17 PRELIMINARY 18 Concepts and definitions 18 Island nomenclature 18 Scope 20 INSULAR FEATURES AND THE ISLAND SYNDROME 20 Physical description 20 Biological description 23 Reduced species richness 23 Occurrence of endemic species or subspecies 23 Occurrence of unique ecosystems 27 Species characteristic of WA islands 27 Hyperabundance 30 Habitat changes 31 Behavioural changes 32 Morphological changes 33 Changes in niches 35 Genetic changes 35 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 36 Degree of exposure to wave action and salt spray 36 Normal exposure 36 Extreme exposure and tidal surge 40 Substrate 41 Topographic variation 42 Maximum elevation 43 Climate 44 Number and extent of vegetation and other types of habitat present 45 Degree of isolation from the nearest source area 49 History: Time since separation (or formation) 52 Planar area 54 Presence of breeding seals, seabirds, and turtles 59 Presence of Indigenous people 60 Activities of Europeans 63 Sampling completeness and comparability 81 Ecological interactions 83 Coups de foudres 94 LINKAGES BETWEEN THE 15 FACTORS 94 ii THE TRANSITION FROM MAINLAND TO ISLAND: KNOWNS; KNOWN UNKNOWNS; AND UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS 96 SPECIES TURNOVER 99 Landbird species 100 Seabird species 108 Waterbird -
Of Vegetation in New Isolated Landslides, Localised Cyclonic
BLUMEA 31 (1986) 341-371 The instability of the tropical ecosystem inNew Guinea R.J. Johns L.J. Brass Memorial Herbarium, P. N. G. University ofTechnology, Lae, Papua New Guinea INTRODUCTION authorities stable The tropical ecosystem has been considered by many as a vege- has tation type that, in some areas, ‘existed uninterruptedly since a very remote geo- logical time’ (Richards, 1952). The long term stability of rainforest ecosystems was showed that there of first questioned when studies was a marked contraction rain- Pleistocene Within New forest areas in the tropics during times (Flenley, 1979). Guinea two major effects are reported: altitudinal fluctuation of the major vegeta- described Powell tion zones at higher altitudes, as by Flenley (1972), Hope (1976), and decrease result of the lower (1970), and Walker (1970); a in precipitation. As a rainfall during the Pleistocene era (17,000—14,000 yrs BP) extensive areas of New Guinea characterised climate & were by a very dry savanna type (Nix Kalma, 1972). This is still reflected in the distribution of savanna elements in the present vegetation, in both lowland and lower montane areas. the Pleistocene However, extensive disturbances are by no means restricted to times. Studies in New Guinea show that the environment has been recently subjected caused These often to major disturbances by natural disasters. phenomena are easily plotted from aerial photographs and by using remote sensing techniques. An under- standing of environmental instability is important, not only for the interpretation of the structure and floristics of the extant vegetation, but is also of major importance in the managementof the tropical environment in New Guinea. -
2018 Proceedings-LLL Grad Student Conf 2018.Pdf
2018 Proceedings L4: Languages, Linguistics & Literature for Life 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature Edited by Mitsuko Suzuki 2018 Proceedings L4: Languages, Linguistics & Literature for Life 22nd Annual Graduate Student Conference College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature Edited by Mitsuko Suzuki Published by 1859 East-West Road #106 Honolulu, HI 96822-2322 nflrc.hawaii.edu cbna 2019 College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Past proceedings in this series are archived in http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/9195 The contents of this publication were developed in part under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (CFDA 84.229, P229A180026). However, the contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and one should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. CONTENTS PREFACE ii PLENARY HIGHLIGHTS iii 2018 LLL EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH AWARD PRESENTATIONS iv TAKING A KNEE: COLIN KAEPERNICK’S PURSUIT OF STASIS 1 Justin Clapp, English THE SIGNIFICANCE OF QUEER SPECIFICITY IN KIM SA-RYANG’S “INTO 5 THE LIGHT” (1939) Yijun Ding, East Asian Languages and Literatures LEARNER SELF-EVALUATION FOR DEVELOPING ENGLISH 10 COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: A PILOT STUDY Hoa T.V. Le, Second -
Cucurbitaceae Enrichment for Our Parrots Study of the Presence Of
Parrots and climate change Cucurbitaceae enrichment for Study of the presence of our parrots pheomelanin in parakeet Page 4 Page 23 feathers VOL 32 Page 24 NO 8-11 CONTENTS 3 VoLume 32 / Number 8-11 Editorial 4 Parrots and climate change 6 MY BREEDING WITH THE AFRICAN DAMARALAND PARROT The Brown parrot, as they are called in Africa, are widely spread in six sub-species over a big part of Africa, from Southern Chad, Sudan and Ethiopia, to the more southern countries like Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. 12 Survey confirms upward trend of the Blue- » p.6 throated Macaw in Bolivia Getting birds to reproduce in controlled spaces is a process that requires dedication, a lot of attention, resources and, above all, knowledge. Only in this way can good results be obtained. In the past, scientists had to resort to museum skins collections to obtain samples or to observe biological parameters in dissected animals. 14 Bleeding Heart Pigeons Gallicolumba is a mid-sized genus of ground-dwelling doves (family Columbidae) which occur in rainforests on the Philippines, Indonesia Islands and in the Pacific region. They are not closely related to the American ground doves (genus Columbina and related genera). Rather, the present genus is closest to the thick-billed ground pigeon. » p.22 22 Calabash for parrots 23 Cucurbitaceae enrichment for our parrots 24 Study of the presence of pheomelanin in par- akeet feathers The colors in a bird’s feathers are formed in two different ways: pigments and light refraction caused by the structure of the feather.