Sickle-Billed Curlew

Long-Billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) Rangewide Survey and Monitoring Guidelines

Animating the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

The proposed rediscovery of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, while celebrated by some ornithologists, was debated by others. Central to the argument is the interpretation of a fuzzy video depicting a large black and white bird taking flight. This thesis describes the creation of a physiologically-accurate animation of a flying Ivory-Billed Woodpecker in hope...

Red-billed oxpeckers: vampires or tickbirds?

Many recent studies have shown that classic examples of mutualism are either far more complicated than originally believed, or that they are not mutualisms at all. Red-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus erythrorhynchus) are just such an example of an ‘‘adaptive story.’’ These small birds feed almost exclusively on what they can glean from the skin of large African mammals. The relationship is obligate ...

Notes on the Red-billed Leiothrix in Hawaii

THE NAME JAPANESE HIL.L ROBIN often used in Hawaii for Leiothrix lutea (Scopoli) is an unfortunate misnomer, as is Pekin Nightingale, because the bird does not occur in the wild in Japan nor does it occur as far north as Shanghai, much less Pekin or Peipmg. Henshaw (1911: 63) recommended the introduction of this species into Hawaii as early as 1911 and noted that it lives to some extent on inse...

The restoration of the Red-billed Chough in Cornwall

The Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax has a restricted range in Britain and has been in long-term decline since at least the early 1800s. Southwest England was a former stronghold and Cornwall was the last county in England from which it was lost as a breeding species, the last successful breeding attempt being in 1947.The reduction of suitable foraging habitat owing to changes in the m...