supported by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology(No.D171100007217002).
With continually increasing urbanization,the land cover in urban areas continues to change,resulting in the loss of biodiversity.Birds are highly sensitive to changes in habitat.Most forest birds perch on plants that ...
supported by the Hong Kong Environment and Conservation Fund(ECF Project 02/2014);the United College Endowment Fund of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Background:Communal roosting is a common avian social behaviour,which potentially provides foraging benefits,predation avoidance or thermoregulation in birds.To identify the crucial environmental factors associated wi...
RJF (red jungle fowl) (Gallus gallus gallus) is territorial birds. Only males advertise and defend territory by metals of crows and combat fighting in severe cases. Crows are testosterone dependent and use up to 4...
We analyze morphometrics from a sample of 276 White-winged Black Tern(Chlidonias leucopterus) caught in north-west Australia on 4 March 2011. An estimated 40000 terns were present — the largest concentration of this ...
supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada;the K.E Molson Foundation;WWF Canada
Twenty-five characters or suites of characters from bats are considered in light of changes in bat classification. Thecharacters include some associated with flower-visiting (two), echolocation (12), roosting (six), r...
financed by the Wildlife Conservation Program of the State Forestry Administration of China in 2009
Hume's Pheasant(Syrmaticus humiae) and the Silver Pheasant(Lophura nycthemera) are two sympatric bird species at Dazhong Mountain of Yunnan Province,southwestern China.We investigated characteristics of roosting habit...
The habitat selection of Tibetan Snow Cocks in shrub vegetation was investigated in Lhasa,Tibet,China,between March and April,2005.Fourteen parameters were measured.These include altitude,slope,slope aspect,slope posi...