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	Palearctic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This boreal and temperate European-Siberian region is the Palearctic's largest biogeographic region, which transitions from Tundra in the northern reaches of Russia and Scandinavia to the vast Taiga, the boreal coniferous forests which run across the continent.
		This scheme includes these desert ecoregions in the palearctic ecozone; other biogeographers identify the ecozone boundary as the transition zone between the desert ecoregions and the Mediterranean basin ecoregions to the north, which places the deserts in the Afrotropic, while others place the boundary through the middle of the desert.
		The middle altitude foothills of the Himalaya between about 2000-2500 m form the boundary between the Palearctic and Indomalaya ecoregions, and further east in eastern Asia, high mountain ranges form tongues of Palearctic flora and fauna in northern Myanmar and southern China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palearctic (1351 words)

	Buteo Books: Bird Books, Ornithology Texts, Birding Gear - Palearctic
		Palearctic Birds: A Checklist of the Birds of Europe, North Africa and Asia North of the Foothills of the Himalayas, Harrier Publications, 1994.
		The Handbook of Bird Identification for Europe and the Western Palearctic.
		The Birds of the Western Palearctic: Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
	www.buteobooks.com /palearctic.html (1505 words)

	Palearctic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight (Click link for more info and facts about ecozone) ecozones dividing the Earth surface (see).
		East Asia was not much affected by glaciation in the (Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface) ice ages, and retained 96 percent of Pliocene tree genera, while Europe retained only 27 percent.
		One (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) bird family, the (Small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia) accentors (Prunellidae) is endemic to the Palearctic region.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pa/Palearctic.htm (3894 words)

	Guide to Palearctic Flea Beetle Genera, Overview
		At the same time, we acknowledge that the border between the Palearctic and Oriental regions is a wide transition zone, where Palearctic and Oriental faunistic complexes mix together.
		The Palearctic fauna is notably impoverished compared with that of the Oriental or Neotropical regions, possibly due to late tertiary aridization and quaternary glaciation.
		In summary, it would appear that the present-day diversity of the Palearctic flea beetle fauna can be explained through immigration from Asia, Middle East and Africa, combined with local speciation under the influence of tertiary aridization and quaternary glaciation.
	www.sel.barc.usda.gov /Coleoptera/fleabeetles/overview.htm (811 words)

	Atlas of the distribution of palearctic birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The project "Atlas of the distribution of palearctic birds" was founded by the famous German ornithologist Erwin Stresemann in the nineteen fifties, and from 1960 onwards 20 issues were published treating now 226 species.
		The aim of this atlas project initially was and still is to delimit distributional boundaries of palearctic bird species as meticulous as possible.
		A further step to better investigate the rich east palearctic avifauna is to incorporate also Chinese scientists, and this luckily happened in the present Lieferung.
	www.staff.uni-mainz.de /martens/atlas/english.html (325 words)

	Morphology of Palearctic Flea Beetle Genera
		A number of works exist which describe the morphology of a single species or genus of Alticinae (Teotia 1958, Reid 1988, Konstantinov in press), but these works are too few and their scope too limited to allow for the determination of complex structural homologies within the subfamily.
		The epistome is situated on the anterior margin of the head, delineated from it by the frontoclypeal suture.
		The maxilla of flea beetles consists of a basal segment (cardo), basi- and mediastypes, galea, and lacinia; a 4-segmented maxillary palpus is attached to each basistipe.
	www.sel.barc.usda.gov /Coleoptera/fleabeetles/morpho.htm (1118 words)

	BirdLife - Iran. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Tow main factors are responsible for this; the great range of habitats-from permanent snows to deep deserts and from lush deciduous forest in the north to palm groves and mangrove in the south — and Iran's position at a crossroads between three major faunal regions.
		Iran's bird fauna includes a large western Palearctic faunal element, reaching its eastern extremity in the central Alborz and Zagros mountains, and a smaller, which extends into north-east Iran in the highlands of Khorasan.
		Eighty-one are western Palearctic species, reaching the easternmost extremities of their ranges in Iran, while 19 are typically eastern Palearctic species, reaching the westernmost tip of their ranges in Iran.
	www.birdlifemed.org /Contries/iran/iran.html (3364 words)

	Western Palearctic
		The Western Palearctic is composed of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
		The Western Palearctic does not have any truly tropical habitat (and therefore the entire Regional list is comparatively small) but it does have habitats ranging from high elevation in the Alps (like around Grossglockner Glacier in Austria, 3rd photo) to the barren wastes below sea-level at the Dead Sea between Israel and Jordan (4th photo).
		Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris although a portion of the (former) breeding population is in Russian taiga and steppes east of the BWP boundary, this is thought of as a bird of the Western Palearctic since almost everything that is known about it is from its (former) wintering grounds in Italy, Tunisia, and Morocco.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/wp.html (2127 words)

	Western Palearctic water frogs
		The western palearctic water frogs are a group of frogs which are mostly water-bound and commonly found in ponds and rivers throughout Europe, northern Africa and the western parts of Asia.
		Western Palearctic water frogs are very common throughout of Europe, the Middle East.
		Beerli, P. Genetic isolation and calibration of an average protein clock in western Palearctic water frogs of the Aegean region.
	waterfrogs.csit.fsu.edu /waterfrogs_tree.html (270 words)

	Two new water frog species from the Aegean islands Crete and Karpathos
		The western Palearctic water frogs from Crete are characterized by a unique multilocus combination of electrophoretically detected alleles, including fixed allelic differences at 11 or more of 31 loci, with fixed, unique alleles at 7 loci.
		Analysis of the complex tectonic movements in the Aegean region and fossil data suggest that the island Karpathos, between Crete and Rhodos, was connected to Rhodos and the Anatolian mainland in the early Pliocene, and became completely isolated in middle Pliocene (Meulenkamp 1985).
		This scenario indicates that the water frogs living on Crete diverged from the other western Palearctic water frogs a minimum of 5 million years and a maximum of 6 million years ago, and that the water frogs of Karpathos diverged from Anatolian relatives about 3 million years ago.
	tolweb.org /accessory/Two_New_European_Water_Frog_Species?acc_id=581 (2352 words)

	TWSG 12 - Status of North American Ruddy Duck in the Western Palearctic
		Annual spring and summer records of Ruddy Ducks on the Shetland and Orkney Isles and in Iceland during the 1990s suggest this northward range extension may be spreading further afield.
		The number of Ruddy Duck records in the Western Palearctic is still increasing, at a mean annual rate of 21% between 1976 and 1996.
		Although no captive birds from the continent have yet been tested, these are all thought to descend from the original three pairs imported to Slimbridge in the 1940s, therefore DNA fingerprinting may not be able to differentiate between feral or captive UK Ruddy Ducks and birds from collections abroad.
	www.wwt.org.uk /threatsp/twsg/bulletins/12/F3.htm (2536 words)

	Dansk Orn. For. Tids. 03_05_01
		A new EU-funded project at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, is trying to establish a publicly accessible database on the geographical distribution of Palearctic migratory birds in Africa to guide conservation decisions.
		Some 200 species breeding in the Palearctic region migrate in numbers of an estimated 3000-5000 millions to their African wintering grounds (Moreau 1972, Curry-Lindahl 1981).
		Since many of the Palearctic migratory species are endangered, their conservation is of utmost concern (Salathé 1991, Crick and Jones 1992).
	www.zmuc.dk /verweb/staff/bawalther/doftPreprint.htm (1988 words)

	Auk, The: Goose Populations of the Western Palearctic: A Review of Status and Distribution
		Goose Populations of the Western Palearctic: A Review of Status and Distribution.-Edited by jesper Madsen, Gill Cracknell, and Tony Fox.
		The effects of geese on tundra ecosystems in the Palearctic apparently are unstudied, and there appears to be no conflict between urban humans and geese at any time of the year.
		For those unfamiliar with Palearctic geese, this volume provides an opportunity to learn not only about their status, population dynamics, and ecology, but also about processes, both biological and political, that may influence geese on other continents.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_200001/ai_n8886347 (1114 words)

	Waterbird Monitoring - Western Palearctic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In the Western Palearctic and Southwest Asia region, more than 20,000 wetland sites have been covered in the years since IWC started, and in the late 1990s, about 11,000 mostly voluntary counters participated in the counts.
		In addition, detailed estimates of population trends between 1974 and 1996 of 24 species of Anatidae and Common Coot in five areas of the Western Palearctic are presented.
		One of the most readily applicable and widely used of the criteria used to designate Wetlands of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is the so-called 1% criterion.
	www.wetlands.org /IWC/wpal&swa/wpal.htm (1043 words)

	Birds of the Western Palearctic - Jeff Blincow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Then when the next advances are made in avian systematics, data would already exist in the appropriate form for new species that might otherwise have been under observed.
		This list of the Forms of the Western Palearctic is suppose to be a discussion list and is not a difinitive list.
		The list on which this database is based was just for my own use and originally was not intended for distribution.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /jblincow/forms/p1forms.htm (685 words)

	IngentaConnect Niche partitioning of two Palearctic passerine migrants with Afro...
		We studied the ecology of Palearctic migrants in Comoe´ National Park, Ivory Coast, West Africa, during three successive winters to explore the factors of niche partitioning between migrants and residents and to test the hypothesis of whether there are common behavioral traits in migrants.
		Therefore, we compared the ecology of two Palearctic breeding species: pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca, and willow warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus, with resident members of the respective guilds.
		With respect to use of microhabitat, foraging speed, and intake rates, we could not confirm the above-mentioned generalizations, showing that care has to be taken into account when drawing conclusions from few studies for a whole migration system on a huge continent.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/oup/beheco/2003/00000014/00000004/art00493 (541 words)

	Nearctica - Conservation - International - CMS Appendix II
		Ardea purpurea purpurea (populations breeding in the Western Palearctic)
		Rallidae Porzana porzana (populations breeding in the Western Palearctic)
		Sterna hirundo hirundo (populations breeding in the Western Palearctic)
	www.nearctica.com /conserve/internat/cms_app2.htm (342 words)

	English Books > Nature/Animals/Pets > Birds & Birdwatching
		Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: the Birds of the Western Palearctic : Vol 7.
		Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: the Birds of the Western Palearctic : Vol 8.
		Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa: the Birds of the Western Palearctic: I: Ostrich to Ducks
	www.netstoreusa.com /books/index/bkbna400H.shtml (719 words)

	Guide to the Butterflies of the Palearctic Region, Part I: Nymphalidae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Palearctic Region is a natural zoogeographic region that includes Europe, Africa north of the Sahara desert, most of the Middle-East, central Asia from the Himalayas to the Arctic Ocean and east to Korea and Japan.
		This guide includes: All the species occurring in the Palearctic region, the species occurring in the transition areas - at an altitude above 2500-3000 meters, the species that - even flying outside the Palearctic or the transition areas - belong to a Palearctic genus.
		In detail the Palearctic region includes, from west to east: the islands of Azores, Madeira and Canaries, all of Europe, Africa roughly north of the Tropic of Cancer, the Arabian Peninsula north of 26 degrees, Iran, Afghanistan, North and Central Asia, Plateau of Tibet, Yunnan and W. Sichuan, China, north of 34 degrees, and Japan.
	www.coronetbooks.com /books/guid9044.htm (197 words)

	The Palearctic region (from Asia) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Palearctic region (from Asia) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A distinction can be made between the animal life of the tundra in the north and that of the adjacent taiga farther south.
		More results on "The Palearctic region (from Asia)" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-48175?tocId=48175 (951 words)

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		This guide covers all but a few of the Western Palearctic's breeding birds, and includes information on all regularly encountered vagrants.
		It has over 400 color plates and, with distribution maps and illustrations on facing pages, it is practically designed and easy to use.
		Each volume includes color plates of eggs, fl-and-white illustrations, and many text-figures showing such features as display postures, voice sonagrams and melograms, and annual cycles.
	www.birder.com /bookstore/fg_europ.htm (683 words)

	West Palearctic favorites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		My three favorite Western Palearctic photos at this point in time are highlighted below, sometimes in a larger format than on a Family page.
		All were taken in Israeli and the Sinai (then Israeli occupied) in Oct-Nov 1981 while I was on a SCUBA-diving and tourist trip with my father and sister.
		Unfortunately, I have no current recollection of that week -- it is just a blank stop in my memory -- but I did write field notes, and from them I learn the date of this photo.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/wp_favorites.html (464 words)

	The Bird Book Supply Service May
		The Handbook of Bird Identification: Europe and the Western Palearctic by Mark Beaman and Steve Madge.
		A major handbook by the foremost authority on Western Palearctic raptors, with hundreds of colour photographs.
		Palearctic Birds: a Checklist of the Birds of Europe, North Africa and Asia by Mark Beaman.
	www.birdingworld.freeserve.co.uk /Stocklist.htm (13753 words)

	Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region - Accipitridae7
		Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region
		Locally in Palearctic from British Isles and n Scandinavia e across n Russia and n Siberia to Anadyrland and Kamchatka Pen., and s to nw Africa (from Mauritania and Morocco e toTunisia and ne Libya), n Mediterranean region (incl.
		Locally in s Palearctic and s Asia from Morocco to Tunisia and ne Libya, Djibouti, s Europe (Iberian Pen., s France, Greece, probably Albania) and Mediterranean is. (Balearic, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete) e across Turkey, Jordan, Arabia (incl.
	www.scricciolo.com /w_palearctic/accipitridae7.htm (255 words)

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