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October 2012

Volume 154, Issue 4

Pages 659–939

  1. COMMENTARY

    1. Top of page
    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents
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      Seeing the bigger picture: how anthropogenic landscape modification in Africa affects declining migratory birds and the need for trans-continental research and conservation (pages 659–662)

      Danaë K. Sheehan and Fiona J. Sanderson

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01275.x

  2. REVIEW ARTICLE

    1. Top of page
    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents
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      A horizon scanning assessment of current and potential future threats to migratory shorebirds (pages 663–679)

      William J. Sutherland, Jose A. Alves, Tatsuya Amano, Charlotte H. Chang, Nicholas C. Davidson, C. Max Finlayson, Jennifer A. Gill, Robert E. Gill Jr, Patricia M. González, Tómas Grétar Gunnarsson, David Kleijn, Chris J. Spray, Tamás Székely and Des B. A. Thompson

      Article first published online: 20 AUG 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01261.x

  3. ORIGINAL ARTICLES

    1. Top of page
    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents

    1. Movements and migration

      Density and behaviour of Whinchats Saxicola rubetra on African farmland suggest that winter habitat conditions do not limit European breeding populations (pages 680–692)

      Mark F. Hulme and Will Cresswell

      Article first published online: 23 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01258.x

    2. Seasonal pre-migratory fattening and increased activity in a nomadic and irruptive migrant, the Red Crossbill Loxia curvirostra (pages 693–702)

      Jamie M. Cornelius and Thomas P. Hahn

      Article first published online: 9 AUG 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01266.x

    3. Modelling seasonal changes in the distribution of Common Quail Coturnix coturnix in farmland landscapes using remote sensing (pages 703–713)

      Francesc Sardà-Palomera, Manel Puigcerver, Lluís Brotons and José Domingo Rodríguez-Teijeiro

      Article first published online: 17 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01254.x

    4. The avian eggshell

      A comparison of indices and measured values of eggshell thickness of different shell regions using museum eggs of 230 European bird species (pages 714–724)

      Golo Maurer, Steven J. Portugal and Phillip Cassey

      Article first published online: 20 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01244.x

    5. Avian life history traits influence eggshell bacterial loads: a comparative analysis (pages 725–737)

      Juan Manuel Peralta-Sánchez, Manuel Martín-Vivaldi, Antonio Manuel Martín-Platero, Manuel Martínez-Bueno, Marta Oñate, Magdalena Ruiz-Rodríguez and Juan José Soler

      Article first published online: 7 AUG 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01256.x

    6. Systematics and taxonomy

      A new species of Cinclodes from the Espinhaço Range, southeastern Brazil: insights into the biogeographical history of the South American highlands (pages 738–755)

      Guilherme H. S. Freitas, Anderson V. Chaves, Lílian M. Costa, Fabrício R. Santos and Marcos Rodrigues

      Article first published online: 14 AUG 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01268.x

    7. New insights into the systematics of the enigmatic Polynesian sandpipers Aechmorhynchus parvirostris and Prosobonia leucoptera (pages 756–767)

      Alice Cibois, René W. R. J. Dekker, Eric Pasquet and Jean-Claude Thibault

      Article first published online: 25 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01260.x

    8. Phylogenetic affinities of evolutionarily enigmatic African galliforms: the Stone Partridge Ptilopachus petrosus and Nahan's Francolin Francolinus nahani, and support for their sister relationship with New World quails (pages 768–780)

      Callan Cohen, Julia L. Wakeling, Tshifhiwa G. Mandiwana-Neudani, Eric Sande, Christine Dranzoa, Timothy M. Crowe and Rauri C. K. Bowie

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01269.x

    9. Feeding ecology

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      Human disturbance of Bewick's Swans is reflected in giving-up net energy intake rate, but not in giving-up food density (pages 781–790)

      Abel Gyimesi, Marycha S. Franken, Nicole Feige and Bart A. Nolet

      Article first published online: 23 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01253.x

    10. Daily variation in markers of nutritional condition in wintering Black-capped Chickadees Poecile atricapillus (pages 791–802)

      Clément Mandin and François Vézina

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01262.x

    11. Energetic consequences of a major change in habitat use: endangered Brent Geese Branta bernicla hrota losing their main food resource (pages 803–814)

      Kevin Kuhlmann Clausen, Preben Clausen, Casper Cæsar Fælled and Kim Nørgaard Mouritsen

      Article first published online: 10 AUG 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01265.x

    12. Populations processes and physiology

      Sex- and age-biased mortality in wild Grey Partridge Perdix perdix populations (pages 815–824)

      Dana Rymešová, Petr Šmilauer and Miroslav Šálek

      Article first published online: 23 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01259.x

    13. Laying date, body mass and tick infestation of nestling tropical Roseate Terns Sterna dougallii predict fledging success, first-year survival and age at first return to the natal colony (pages 825–837)

      David Monticelli and Jaime A. Ramos

      Article first published online: 13 AUG 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01271.x

    14. Body mass dynamics during incubation and duration of parental care in Pacific Dunlins Calidris alpina pacifica: a test of the differential parental capacity hypothesis (pages 838–845)

      Sarah E. Jamieson

      Article first published online: 17 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01255.x

    15. Morphometric differentiation across House Sparrow Passer domesticus populations in Finland in comparison with the neutral expectation for divergence (pages 846–857)

      Jaana Kekkonen, Henrik Jensen and Jon E. Brommer

      Article first published online: 9 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01252.x

  4. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

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    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents
    1. Modelled sensitivity of avian collision rate at wind turbines varies with number of hours of flight activity input data (pages 858–861)

      David J. T. Douglas, Arne Follestad, Rowena H. W. Langston and James W. Pearce-Higgins

      Article first published online: 1 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01239.x

    2. Extrapair paternity in insular African Blue Tits Cyanistes teneriffae is no less frequent than in continental Eurasian Blue Tits Cyanistes caeruleus (pages 862–867)

      Eduardo Garcia-Del-Rey, Oddmund Kleven and Jan T. Lifjeld

      Article first published online: 20 JUN 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01241.x

    3. Feather deuterium as an indicator of age-class in the Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos (pages 868–873)

      Elizabeth Yohannes, Raymond W. Lee, Mihai Valcu and Bart Kempenaers

      Article first published online: 6 JUL 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01245.x

  5. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS

    1. Top of page
    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents
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      Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: eighth report (pages 874–883)

      George Sangster, J. Martin Collinson, Pierre-André Crochet, Alan G. Knox, David T. Parkin and Stephen C. Votier

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01273.x

  6. MEETING REPORT

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    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents
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      Ecosystem services: do we need birds? : A report on the BOU's Annual Conference held at the University of Leicester, 3–5 April 2012 (pages 884–886)

      Martin P. Sullivan

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01267.x

  7. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE

    1. Top of page
    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
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      Alfred Newton's contribution to ornithology: a conservative quest for facts rather than grand theories (pages 887–905)

      Tim R. Birkhead and Peter T. Gallivan

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01274.x

  8. Book reviews

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    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents
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      Book Reviews (pages 906–921)

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.1277.x

  9. News and notices

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    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
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      News and notices (pages 922–925)

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01270.x

  10. Acknowledgement of Reviewers

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    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
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    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
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      Acknowledgement of Reviewers (pages 926–929)

      Article first published online: 18 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01263.x

  11. Author index

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    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents
    1. Author index (pages 930–932)

      Article first published online: 27 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.authorindex_154.x

  12. Volume contents

    1. Top of page
    2. COMMENTARY
    3. REVIEW ARTICLE
    4. ORIGINAL ARTICLES
    5. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
    6. TAXONOMIC RECOMMENDATIONS
    7. MEETING REPORT
    8. ALFRED NEWTON LECTURE
    9. Book reviews
    10. News and notices
    11. Acknowledgement of Reviewers
    12. Author index
    13. Volume contents
    1. Volume contents (pages 933–939)

      Article first published online: 27 SEP 2012 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.volcontent_154.x

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