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Behavioural Adaptation Of A Bird From Transient Wetland Specialist To An Urban Resident, John Martin, Kristine O. French, Richard Major
Behavioural Adaptation Of A Bird From Transient Wetland Specialist To An Urban Resident, John Martin, Kristine O. French, Richard Major
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Dramatic population increases of the native white ibis in urban areas have resulted in their classification as a nuisance species. In response to community and industry complaints, land managers have attempted to deter the growing population by destroying ibis nests and eggs over the last twenty years. However, our understanding of ibis ecology is poor and a question of particular importance for management is whether ibis show sufficient site fidelity to justify site-level management of nuisance populations. Ibis in non-urban areas have been observed to be highly transient and capable of moving hundreds of kilometres. In urban areas the population …
Impacts On A Threatened Bird Population Of Removals For Translocation, David Bain, Kristine French
Impacts On A Threatened Bird Population Of Removals For Translocation, David Bain, Kristine French
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The removal of individuals from a population may occur for several reasons and responses of populations will vary depending on the magnitude and nature of the removal and the life history of the species. An understanding of the effects of loss of individuals on these populations, and the mechanism of replacement, will be important to conservation. This maybe particularly important where wild individuals are used for the increasingly popular conservation strategy of translocation. During the recent translocation of the endangered eastern bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus), two monitoring sites were established in the wild source population, one where removals were to take …