Bird Ecology and Conservation A Handbook of Techniques

Fostering of eggs Eggs may be fostered to nests to add to those already there or to replace non-viable eggs. Fostered eggs shoul ...

pairs. Of ten pairs whose first clutch was removed, six relayed; and following removal of these second clutches, three pairs wen ...

Fostering Three main types of fostering can be distinguished: Augmentation. The addition of young, thus increasing the size of ...

Experience with wild Mauritius Kestrels and Echo Parakeets has shown that, if birds fail in breeding, but are going to be requir ...

location and apparently paired preferentially with their own species rather than with Black-headed Gulls. Harris (1970) swapped ...

Cross-fostering should proceed with care because of the very real problems of sexual imprinting to the foster species (Immelman ...

congeneric Spice Fince Lonchura punctulataeven if they were not themselves either incubating or rearing young at the time (C.G. ...

become extirpated (IUCN 1998), but can also include the addition of individuals to an existing population. This latter category ...

The birds fledge from the artificial nest-site at the usual fledging age and develop their flying and hunting skills gradually a ...

likely to have the necessary survival skills, but are also more likely to leave the release area and return to their site of ori ...

restoration of the Hawaiian Goose Branta sandvicensis(Black and Banko 1994), Whooping Crane (Ellis et al. 1996), and Pink Pigeon ...

waterfowl, parrots, and passerines, although the number of experienced personnel is small. Artificial incubation and hand-rearin ...

294 |Conservation management of endangered birds Table 12.1 The management techniques used in the restoration of four Critically ...

predator control, supplemental feeding, nest-site management, together with reintroductions, and translocations. To be effective ...

15–20 pairs (A. Owen personal communication). The species was also rediscovered at four sites in neighboring Myanmar where there ...

Nancy Bunbury. Drs Andrew Greenwood and Diana Bell commented and greatly improved the manuscript. References Bell, B.D. and Mert ...

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