Using birds as indicators of biodiversity - ResearchGate Applications of bird species recognition include environmental monitoring based on changes in bird populations (Bibby, 1999), tracking climate change through bird migration patterns (Charmantier
Bowerbird - Wikipedia There may be an evolutionary "transfer" of ornamentation in some species, from their plumage to their bowers, in order to reduce the visibility of the male and thereby its vulnerability to predation [20] This hypothesis is not well supported because species with vastly different bower types have similar plumage
Bowerbirds: the amazing animal architects of tropical New . . . Fire-maned bowerbirds are the flagship species of the Northern New Guinea Montane Rainforests ecoregion, located in the New Guinea Surrounding Islands bioregion Native to the Austro-Papuan region, there are 20 known species of bowerbirds Eight species are endemic to Australia, ten to New Guinea, and two species are found in both regions
Island Species Richness Increases with Habitat Diversity Habitat diversity is known to affect species richness in-dependent of area per se (Williams 1964; Connor and Mc-Coy 1979); everything else being equal, the more habitats there are in a given territory, the more species there are to be found Habitat diversity is formally defined as the num-
Puffin - Wikipedia Fossils from North Carolina were originally thought to have been of two Fratercula species, [13] but were later reassigned to one Fratercula, the tufted puffin, and a Cerorhinca species [14] Another extinct species, Dow's puffin (Fratercula dowi) was found on the Channel Islands of California until the Late Pleistocene or early Holocene [11]
Species – IOC World Bird List IOC World Bird List Species Concept The IOC World Bird List adopts a modern version of the Biological Species Concept with increased emphasis on monophyletic evolutionary lineages (De Queiroz 1998, 1999; Sangster 2014) Our improved understanding of reproductive isolation in birds and of the genetics of speciation encourages review of the
Birds as Pollinators - Ornithology Pollinator Week was June 21-27, 2021 Birds are key global pollinators of wildflowers and ornithophily (bird pollination) occurs in more than 60 flower families Bird pollinators include the orioles and hummingbirds of the New World, honeycreepers of Hawaii and central and South America, sunbirds of Africa, and the lorikeets and honeyeaters of the Australasian realm […]