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	AVIFAUNA - Picchio Verde. . . l'altro web site
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	digilander.libero.it /avifauna/classificazione/passeriformes27.htm (7516 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		The northeast corner of British Columbia consists of semi-open country of deep river valleys, moist shrub-lands and groves of trembling aspen, and, in the higher elevations are spruce and lodge-pole pine.
		The exception is an isolated area in northeastern British Columbia that lies to the east of this barrier; the Peace River Parklands.
		The purposes of the society are: To promote the study and enjoyment of wild birds in British Columbia To disseminate knowledge and appreciation of birds to our members and to the general public through the regular publication of a journal and newsletter.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/america_canada/british_columbia.html (5220 words)

	Conservation Ecology: Urban bird diversity and landscape complexity: Species—environment associations along a ...
		Parks, reserves, and the surrounding residential areas should be integrated into urban planning and development designs to maintain resident avifauna and overall species diversity in urban environments.
		The occupancy of poor-quality or marginal areas by resident birds could be influenced by the surrounding landscape (regional parks vs. high-density housing) because the surrounding habitats may act as resource areas for residential birds and as “source” areas for dispersing birds.
		We were also interested in examining whether or not species incidence (the proportion of sites occupied) increased with park proximity, possibly because birds disperse from high-density park areas or because parks contribute critical resources to nearby marginal residential areas.
	www.ecologyandsociety.org /vol7/iss1/art5/main.html (7967 words)

	Catalog 31 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A detailed study of the avifauna of this West African country with lengthy species descriptions and distribution maps.
		Monographic study of the avifauna of this region of northwestern India covering 430 species with 320 species in full color.
		A comprehensive discussion of the African avifauna with particular reference to the insular bird faunas.
	www.naturalhistorybooks.biz /catalog-31.html (7969 words)

	British avifauna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British avifauna consists of the birds which have occurred in Great Britain.
		In general the avifauna of Britain is, of course, similar to that of Europe, consisting largely of Palaearctic species.
		A large number of these are insectivores such as warblers, flycatchers and Common Cuckoo, as would be expected from the scarcity of insects in British winters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_avifauna (799 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| A comparison of random draw and locally neutral models for the avifauna of an English ...
		When differences in the number of species selected are accounted for, the accuracies of the random draw and neutral models, in terms of correctly predicting the identities of the species inhabiting Eastern Wood, are almost identical (Table 1), as are species' mean predicted abundances (see Additional file 1).
		Therefore, the best null model is not one that generates a mean avifauna identical to that of any one specific woodland, but rather a model that will produce a distribution of expectations within which the majority of woodland avifaunas fall.
		In the case of the random draw model, communities were assembled by drawing individuals with replacement at random from a pool of individual birds of species known to breed in woodlands in Britain, where the probability of an individual of species i being drawn was equal to that species' relative abundance in the source pool.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1472-6785/4/8 (6544 words)

	George Glazer Gallery - Keuleman Birds - Goose
		In 1890, the British natural history collector Lionel Walter Rothschild sent a sailor named Henry Palmer on a collecting expedition to Hawaii, then known as the Sandwich Islands, with special emphasis on Laysan.
		Lionel Walter Rothschild, 3rd baronet and 2nd Baron Rothschild, was a member of British branch of the wealthy and influential Rothschild family.
		Rothschild was elected a Trustee of the British Museum in 1899 and elected to the Royal Society in 1911.
	www.georgeglazer.com /prints/nathist/birds/keulgoose.html (803 words)

	The UK's Topsy-Turvy Wildlife - National Zoo\| FONZ
		For decades, British conservationists have been trying to protect the country’s rarest habitats and birds—wetlands, open habitats called sandy and shrubby heaths, and oak forests top their target lists.
		In 1997, biologist Christopher Lever wrote of the British population of gaudy mandarin duck: “The British population is of major conservation importance, the total of circa 3,500 breeding pairs…equaling that of Japan, and surpassing that of the rest of Asia.”
		According to British mammalogist Keith Laidler in his 1980 book Squirrels in Britain, prior to the introduction of the gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), the European red squirrel was the only herbivorous, arboreal mammal native to the British Isles.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Publications/ZooGoer/2003/3/UKwildlife.cfm (3407 words)

	Bibliography of Books and monographs on Indian Birds
		Murray, J.A. The Avifauna of the Island of Ceylon.
		Musavi, A.H. and Urfi, A.J. Avifauna of the Aligarh Region.
		Oates, E.W. Handbook of the Birds of British Burma.
	www.kolkatabirds.com /biblio.htm (2833 words)

	BTO - Publications Using Previous Atlas Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Blackburn, T.M., Gaston, K.J., Greenwood, J.J.D. and Gregory, R.D. (1998) The anatomy of the interspecific abundance-range size relationship for the British avifauna: II.
		Gaston, K.J., Blackburn, T.M., Gregory, R.D. and Greenwood, J.J.D. (1998) The anatomy of the interspecific abundance-range size relationship for the British avifauna: I. Spatial patterns.
		Lennon, J.J., Koleff, P., Greenwood, J.J.D., and Gaston, K.J. (2001) The geographical structure of British bird distributions: diversity, spatial turnover and scale.
	www.bto.org /atlases/earlier/atlaspubs.htm (1445 words)

	Birds of the Cayman Islands: An Annotated Checklist, The Auk, The - Find Articles
		Those low-lying islands together have an area of 263 kmz, and compared to their larger neighbors they support a correspondingly depauperate avifauna of 69 extant breeding species, including only 16 passerines.
		Many groups characteristic of the Greater Antilles such as the todies and Saurothera cuckoos are currently absent from the Cayman Islands, and most of the species that breed on the archipelago are widely distributed elsewhere in the West Indies, though a number are represented by subspecies endemic to one or more of the Cayman Islands.
		That pattern is somewhat difficult to reconcile with the large number (17) of land bird subspecies endemic to the Cayman islands, most of which presumably represent populations that have persisted long enough to differentiate morphologically from conspecific populations on other islands.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_200210/ai_n9103133 (765 words)

	Personal Publications
		The seasonal distribution and abundance of marine bird populations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and northern Puget Sound in 1978.
		Status and distribution of breeding seabirds of southeastern Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington.
		Biology and Conservation of the Common Murre in California, Oregon Washington, and British Columbia.
	faculty.washington.edu /auklet/publications.htm (945 words)

	Fresh Fields
		One's first impression, on seeing British fields in spring or summer, is that the cattle and sheep have all broken into the meadow and have not yet been discovered by the farmer; they have taken their fill, and are now reposing upon the grass or dreaming under the trees.
		But you presently perceive that it is all meadow or meadow-like; that there are no wild, weedy, or barren pastures about which the herds toil; but that they are in grass up to their eyes everywhere.
		The bark of the British beech is smooth and close-fitting, and often tinged with a green mould.
	www.wakerobin.org /pages/Fresh_Fields.html (21873 words)

	Black-chinned Hummingbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The female has a dark rounded tail with white tips and no throat patch; they are similar to female Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.
		Their breeding habitat is open semi-arid areas near water in the western United States, northern Mexico and southern British Columbia.
		The female builds a well-camouflaged nest in a protected location in a shrub or tree using plant fibre, spider webs and lichens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black-chinned_Hummingbird (259 words)

	Pamela C
		My research is on a variety of areas within ornithology, focusing on systematics, vocalizations, diversity, and conservation of the avifauna of southern Asia.
		Survey of a Middle Miocene and a very extensive Early Pliocene avifauna from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina.
		Avifauna of three Holocene cave deposits in southern Chile.
	www.msu.edu /user/rasmus39 (473 words)

	Gosford Park review
		So director Robert Altman is trying to tell us that these are not very nice people, but just in case you were completely oblivious to the film hammering this point home over and over again, the main event of the weekend is a pheasant shoot.
		While the gentry are blowing harmless avifauna out of the sky, one of them narrowly misses shooting another.
		They want to observe British society, but they're not very good observers; they miss much of what's going on, and they don't ask sensible questions.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /roygoodman/gosford.html (1126 words)

	BVI Attractions - Island Sun Newspaper
		The British Virgin Islands, with the exception of Anegada,are hilly and therefore constitute a good habitat for birds.
		Reforestation projects during the last twenty years have helped and enhanced this habitat.Sage Mountain in Tortola with its remnants of a rain forest is a perfect bird sanctuary and so is Guana Island.
		A spring and summer resident, the Pimleconests in colonies in rock cavities.The avifauna of the BVI is divided between 80 species of land birds, waders and North American winter migrants and comparably fewer sea bird species.
	www.islandsun.com /aflamstamp.html (1867 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Jones, Birds of Belize
		Because bajo forests are structurally similar to other types of lowland broadleaf forest and their avifauna, for the most part, is similar, they are not classified as a separate habitat type here.
		Together, the meadows, savannas, and woodlands form a complex mosaic that, although quite different at the two extremes, are often almost impossible to delineate as separate vegetation types because of the many broad transition zones.
		Nearly all of these are birds associated with cleared land, urban areas, second-growth scrub, and manufactured wetlands such as rice fields and shrimp farms.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exjonbir.html (8744 words)

	Aves
		Further additions to and deletions from the avifauna of Congo-Brazzaville: Malimbus 20(1), April, 1998: 15-32.
		Prigogine, A. The altitudinal distribution of the avifauna in the Itombwe Forest (Zaire): Johnson, D.n.
		The composition of Itombwe Forest's avifauna: Bonner Zoologische Beitraege 28(3-4) 1977: 369-383, Illustr.
	diglib1.amnh.org /resources/bibliography/bibliographies/aves.htm (5619 words)

	Bird and Birding in Venezuela - bird lists, book reviews, tour information, itineraries, conservation projects
		Venezuela’s avifauna is relatively well known thanks to the efforts of William H. Phelps, William H. Phelps Jr.
		Their work created the largest ornithological collection in Latin America and culminated in the production of the first modern field guide to a South American avifauna.
		The standard field guide to Venezuela’s birds is Meyer de Schauensee and Phelps’ A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela (Princeton University Press, 1978) the Spanish version of which was reprinted in 1994 with an appendix adding information on newly recorded species (Ex Libris, 1994).
	www.birdvenezuela.com /venezuela_birds_knowledge.htm (382 words)

	Amazon.fr : Birds of British Columbia: Passerines : Flycatchers Through Vireos: Livres en anglais: R. Wayne ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is the culmination of more than 25 years of effort by the authors who, with the assistance of thousands of dedicated volunteers throughout the province, have created the basic reference work on the avifauna of British Columbia.
		The book concludes with Synopsis: The Birds of British Columbia into the 21st Century, which synthesizes data and information from all four volumes and looks at the conservation challenges facing birds in the new millennium.
		The four volumes in The Birds of British Columbia provide unprecedented coverage of the region’s birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, regional environment, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality and distribution patterns of 472 species of birds.
	amazon.fr /Birds-British-Columbia-Passerines-Flycatchers/dp/0774805722 (513 words)

	Surfbirds News: Records of non-native birds in the UK
		The British Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee (BOURC) is responsible for the maintenance of the British List and the categorisation of species on the List.
		In this way, changes to our national avifauna can be tracked, status changes recorded, official lists updated and information gathered that helps us better understand the effects of humans on bird populations.
		It has become apparent that the data submitted on non-native species, on which the RBBP bases its annual report, are far from comprehensive and that the overall picture of the status of many species is thus incomplete.
	www.surfbirds.com /sbirdsnews/archives/2004/08/records_of_nonn.html (574 words)

	CFZ: The story of the Parrots of Woodbury
		Over the seven issues that were published I wrote a column about the stranger aspects of British natural history.
		Indeed the African ring necked parakeet has now been reported from most counties in England and Wales and has even been described by irate Kentish fruit farmers as a pest on a par with the native bullfinch because of its fondness not only for fruit but for the flower buds of fruit trees.
		Indeed, thirty years ago, one member of the parrot family — the ubiquitous Budgerigar even got the seal of Royal Approval when the Queen Mother, no less, suggested to the Lord Lieutenant of the Scilly Isles that he introduce a flock of free flying budgies to the estates on the island of Tresco.
	www.cfz.org.uk /features/unnat2.htm (844 words)

	Biodiversity of Irian Jaya
		The avifauna is largely Australian, but certain elements such as the Blyth Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus), tree swifts (Hemiprocnidae), shrikes (Laniidae) and sandpipers (Scolopacidae) are not only of an Oriental origin but also do not extend into Australia (Pratt, 1982).
		Probably more than any other group, birds have attracted the attention of all visitors and voyagers to New Guinea, and they are also well-known and utilized by many of the indigenous inhabitants.
		Knowledge of the distribution and endemism among the avifauna has been important guideline in formulating the reserve design for Irian Jaya (see Diamond, 1982; 1986; Petocz, 1983; 1985).
	members.tripod.com /wwfsahul_cs/ffij.htm (3664 words)

	Home
		The official site of the British Trust for Ornithology - an independent, scientific research trust, investigating the populations, movements and ecology of wild birds in the British Isles.
		Formed in 1990 to study the avifauna of this region of Eastern England using bird ringing (banding) as a research tool to study wild birds.
		The mission of the Mammal Society is to work to protect British mammals, to halt the decline of threatened species, and to advise on all issues affecting British Mammals.
	www.dreolin.btinternet.co.uk /Links.htm (790 words)

	travelsrilanka - Bird Watching in Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka
		Sri Lanka is fortunate in having a rich diversity of avifauna, in fact one of the richest in any comparable area of South Asia.
		The British, certainly, were in no doubt that Sri Lanka is one of the finest destinations in the world for bird-watching.
		In Sri Lanka we are fortunate that we still have a good network of parks and reserves, which host a wide diversity of bird life.
	www.travelsrilanka.com /index.cfm?PAGE=1224 (1121 words)

	The Birds of Shetland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		'Because of Shetland’s isolated geographical position in Europe, its avifauna is of special interest far beyond the local context.
		It is therefore pleasing to see a thorough and authoritative new work, compiled by a ‘dream team’ of Shetland bird experts.
		'The tireless and sometimes thankless work of local recorders lay behind the best county avifauna we have seen for years, for one of the best birding regions in Britain.
	www.nature-shetland.co.uk /birdclub/bos.htm (576 words)

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