Long-term monitoring of bird communities over time can provide important data for management, and the adaptation that management time. We examined from surveys across 37 sites sampled in five different years 2009 to 2017 a 56,000-ha tropical savanna conservation reserve, northern Queensland. Because limitations survey method lack environmental sites, we broad patterns abundance small- large-bod...

Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea) is the rarest of Canadian high-arctic gulls, and is listed as Threatened under Canada's Species-At-Risk Act. The large majority of birds breed in Siberia: the origins and affinities of four extremely small breeding colonies observed since 1978 in the Canadian high arctic are unknown. We compared a 515-bp region of the mtDNA Control Region amplified from material...

The miniatures of the Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg incorporate many birds among the leaves and tendrils of their margins, and occasionally another small animal, such as a rabbit or a butterfly. The birds are surprisingly numerous there are almost two hundred, all very small, usually three-eighths of an inch or less in size. Despite their tiny dimensions, well over half these birds are pai...