Negative interactions between waterbirds and people are increasing. Waterbirds feeding on agricultural crops cause significant losses to farmers worldwide, but so far most research address these conflicts has been conducted migratory species in the temperate northern hemisphere. We investigated space use habitat selection of magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata), a taxonomically distinct waterbi...

Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) is a widely distributed, common species of the Corvidae family. Since magpies have lived close to humans for centuries, we much information about species. However, there are few data morphological and dietary differences between sexes, primarily due their monomorphic omnivorous, opportunistic characteristics. The aim study was analyse sexual in characteristics, simul...

Adults of Sphaerirostris picae (Rudolphi, 1819) Golvan, 1956 are described from European magpie, Pica pica Linnaeus (Corvidae), collected in 2008 from wooded areas near the northern Iranian town of Tonekabon by the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. Other specimens also were collected from Corvus cornix Linnaeus, Corvus corone Linnaeus, and Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus (Corvidae) in the same loc...

Artificial nests have been used to study factors affecting nest success because researchers can manipulate them more than natural bird nests. Many researchers have questioned the validity of generalizing the results from artificial nests onto naturally occurring nests. Other studies have assessed the validity of artificial nest studies by simultaneously comparing overall depredation or daily su...

The timing of the morning twilight commencement bird song has been linked to mating, stores food energy or territorial declarations, and is known follow a structured, spaced order avoid signal interference. vocalisations widely studied varies with ambient broader environmental variables, including moonlight cloud cover. In this study, for five common species (Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles, Aust...