Density and behaviour of Whinchats Saxicola rubetra on African farmland suggest that winter habitat conditions do not limit European breeding populations

The Whinchat Saxicola rubetra is an Afro‐Palaearctic migrant undergoing widespread population decline. Whinchats winter in West Africa but there are almost no data on their habitat use and behaviour there that may help to explain the cause of this decline. We measured the density of Whinchats, the h...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Ibis (London, England) England), 2012-10, Vol.154 (4), p.680-692
Hauptverfasser:	Hulme, Mark F., Cresswell, Will
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abundance Animal and plant ecology Animal behavior Animal populations Animal, plant and microbial ecology Animals Autoecology Aves Biological and medical sciences Birds farmland birds Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology habitat change Habitats Palaearctic migrant declines Population density Vertebrata Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution Whinchat Winter Zea mays
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