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{"title":"Corrigendum to ‘Achievements, challenges, and recommendations for waterbird conservation in China's coastal wetlands","authors":"Zhijun Ma, C. Choi, Xiaojing Gan, Jing Li, Yang Liu, David S. Melville, Tong Mu, T. Piersma, Zhengwang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100133","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42772588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Scaly-sided Merganser (Mergus squamatus) equalizes foraging costs with depth by switching forage tactics","authors":"Peizhong Liu, Meihan Liu, Dongyang Xiao, Ying He, Rong Fan, Cai Lu, L. Wen, Qing Zeng, G. Lei","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44405839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Data reliability of the emerging citizen science in the Great Bay Area of China","authors":"Hsi-Shou Huang, Yihong Wang, Yang Liu, Zhang Lyubing","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43634476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Responses of breeding waterbird communities to environmental changes in subsidence wetlands in China","authors":"Guangyao Wang, Jinming Zhao, Weiqiang Li, Xiangrong Song, Yong Zhang, Chunlin Li, W. F. de Boer","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44388015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Timing of breeding, nest age, and clutch size as determinants of nest success of the vulnerable chestnut seedeater (Sporophila cinnamomea) in grasslands of southern South America","authors":"Jonas Rafael Rodrigues Rosoni, C. S. Fontana, C. J. Carlos","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45466185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Flexible nest selection of the endangered Oriental Storks (Ciconia boyciana): Trade-off from adaptive strategies","authors":"Lei Cheng, Lizhi Zhou, Chao Yu, Zhen-man Wei, Chunhua Li","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45576058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Modelling the nesting-habitat of threatened vulture species in the caucasus: An ecosystem approach to formalising environmental factors in species distribution models","authors":"Rustam Pshegusov,&nbsp;Victoria Chadaeva","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Abiotic factors play an important role in species localisation, but biotic and anthropogenic predictors must also be considered in distribution modelling for models to be biologically meaningful. In this study, we formalised the biotic predictors of nesting sites for four threatened Caucasian vultures by including species distribution models (wild ungulates, nesting tree species) as biotic layers in the vulture Maxent models. Maxent was applied in the R dismo package and the best set of the model parameters were defined in the R ENMeval package. Performance metrics were continuous Boyce index, Akaike's information criterion, the area under receiver operating curve and true skill statistics. We also calculated and evaluated the null models. Kernel density estimation method was applied to assess the overlap of vulture ecological niches in the environmental space. The accessibility of anthropogenic food resources was estimated using the Path Distance measure that considers elevation gradient. The availability of pine forests (Scots Pine) and wild ungulates (Alpine Chamois and Caucasian Goat) contributed the most (29.6% and 34.3%) to Cinereous Vulture (<em>Aegypius monachus</em>) nesting site model. Wild ungulate distribution also contributed significantly (about 46%) to the Bearded Vulture (<em>Gypaetus barbatus</em>) model. This scavenger nests in the highlands of the Caucasus at a minimum distance of 5–10 ​km from anthropogenic facilities. In contrast, livestock as a food source was most important in colony distribution of Griffon Vulture (<em>Gyps fulvus</em>). The contribution of distances to settlements and agricultural facilities to the model was 45%. The optimal distance from Egyptian Vulture (<em>Neophron percnopterus</em>) nesting sites to settlements was only 3–10 ​km, to livestock facilities no more than 15 ​km with the factor contribution of about 57%. Excluding the wild ungulate availability, the ecological niches of studied vultures overlapped significantly. Despite similar foraging and nesting requirements, Caucasian vultures are not pronounced nesting and trophic competitors due to the abundance of nesting sites, anthropogenic food sources and successful niche sharing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44956496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of diet shift on the gut microbiota of the critically endangered Siberian Crane","authors":"Wenjuan Wang ,&nbsp;Yafang Wang ,&nbsp;Qing Chen ,&nbsp;Huifang Ding","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100108","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100108","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Wetlands worldwide have suffered from serious degradation and transformation, leading to waterbirds increasingly dependent on agricultural fields for feeding. Although gut microbiota is an essential component of host health, the impacts of agricultural feeding on gut microbial community and pathogen transmission remain poorly understood. To fill this knowledge gap, we used 16S rRNA sequencing to characterize the fecal bacterial community of the Siberian Crane (<em>Grus</em> <em>leucogeranus</em>), a Critically Endangered species, that recently has shifted its foraging from largely <em>Vallisneria</em> tubers in Poyang Lake natural wetlands to crops (i.e., rice seeds and lotus rhizomes) in agricultural fields. We compared the bacterial communities between tuber foraging cranes and crop foraging cranes. Our results indicate that diet shift greatly modified the gut microbiota diversity, composition and function. Crop foraging cranes had higher microbiota diversity than tuber foraging cranes. The alteration in microbiota composition and function were correlated with change in food nutrition. Tuber (i.e., high in fiber) foraging cranes were enriched in Clostridiaceae with fiber digestion ability, and crop (i.e., high in carbohydrate) foraging cranes were enriched in bacterial taxa and functions related to carbohydrate metabolism. The flexibility of gut microbiota might enhance Siberian Cranes’ ability to adapt to novel diet and environment. However, many enriched families in crop foraging cranes were pathogenic bacteria, which might increase the susceptibility of cranes to pathogenic infection. Special caution should be taken to agricultural feeding waterbirds in Asia, where the widespread poultry-keeping in over-harvested rice fields might increase the transmission probability of pathogenetic bacteria among wild birds, domestic poultry and humans.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45101928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of anthropogenic noise on nest predation with respect to predator species across different habitats and seasons","authors":"Xiaogang Yao ,&nbsp;Neng Wu ,&nbsp;Yan Cai ,&nbsp;Canchao Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100121","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Noise pollution is a major component of sensory pollution that can disrupt the well-being and functioning of living organisms, affect a variety of life history traits in animals, and reduce their reproductive success. In this study, we used artificial nest experiments with noise manipulation to investigate the influence of anthropogenic noise on nest predation during the breeding and non-breeding seasons and in different forest habitats. We found that the noise treatment did not alter the predation rates or survival probabilities of birds in artificial nests. However, the diversity and species composition of nest predators in artificial pine forests varied between breeding and non-breeding seasons, which may be explained by season-specific adaption of nest predators to bird nests or the unstable ecosystems of artificial forests. The diversity and species composition of nest predators differed between the different forests, probably because of differences in habitat heterogeneity. Predation time varied with treatment, season, and habitat, although most predators were nocturnal mammals. Niche segregation or changes in optimal foraging time may explain this phenomenon.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43114282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Physiological strategies of moult-migrating Black-necked Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) in a polluted staging site according to blood chemistry","authors":"Juan A. Amat ,&nbsp;Nico Varo ,&nbsp;Marta I. Sánchez ,&nbsp;Andy J. Green ,&nbsp;Dámaso Hornero-Méndez ,&nbsp;Juan Garrido-Fernández ,&nbsp;Cristina Ramo","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>After breeding, Black-necked Grebes (<em>Podiceps nigricollis</em>) perform a moult-migration to autumn hypersaline staging sites, where they moult the flight feathers and forage on superabundant brine shrimp (<em>Artemia</em> spp.) before leaving for wintering areas. During the stay in moulting sites, the grebes experience changes in organs and muscle size (atrophy, hypertrophy), and almost double their body mass, which has been suggested to act as an insurance against a collapse in prey availability in late autumn. During two years we collected blood samples from hundreds of individuals at one of the most important European moulting sites (the Odiel marshes, SW Spain), which is a highly polluted area due to mining drainage and chemical industry. We assessed the potential effect of moulting stage, day of the year and body condition on 16 blood biochemical parameters. Because of the changes in prey availability and body composition of grebes, we expected some physiological adjustments during moult. Elevated levels of cholesterol suggested that birds in active moult increased foraging effort to face the costs of moulting. There was increased amount of lactate dehydrogenase, corresponding to periods of breast muscle atrophy. Birds in active moult augmented protein ingestion, likely to account for the requirements of feather growth. We also show that the probability of fasting due to low prey availability increased late in the moulting season, as demonstrated by an increase in plasma <em>β</em>-hydroxy-butyrate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49774712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}