Darwin y las islas
Accepted records of bird rarities in the Balearics. Report for 2005. Fifteenth annual report presented by the GOB Bird Rarities Committee. Thirty-one records were accepted, relating to the following species: mute swan Cygnus olor, merlin Falco columbarius, little crake Porzana parva, Baillon’s crake...
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Grup Balear d'Ornitologia i Defensa de la Naturalesa
2008
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| Online Access: | http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/sites/oai-site/collect/anuariGob/index/assoc/AOB_2008.dir/AOB_2008v23p001.pdf http://ibdigital.uib.es/greenstone/library/collection/anuariGob/document/AOB_2008v23p001 |
| Summary: | Accepted records of bird rarities in the Balearics. Report for 2005. Fifteenth annual report presented by the GOB Bird Rarities Committee. Thirty-one records were accepted, relating to the following species: mute swan Cygnus olor, merlin Falco columbarius, little crake Porzana parva, Baillon’s crake Porzana pusilla, dotterel Charadrius morinellus, Caspian tern Sterna caspia, great spotted cuckoo Clamator glandarius, red-necked nightjar Caprimulgus ruficollis, rufous bush-chat Cercotrichas galactotes, Savi’s warbler Locustella luscinioides, western olivaceous warbler Hippolais opaca, orphean warbler Sylvia hortensis, long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus, coal tit Parus ater, red-backed shrike Lanius collurio and snow bunting Plectrophenas nivalis. We also include 14 sightings in the Balearic Islands of species accepted by the Rarities Committee of the Spanish Society of Ornithology (CR-SEO) in its annual report for 2003. The most notable involve two accepted as first Balearic records: a desert wheatear Oenanthe deserti and a booted warbler Hippolais caligata. The other species are sacred ibis Threskiornis aethiopicus, dotterel Charadrius morinellus , pectoral sandpiper Calidris melanotos, yellow-browed warbler Phylloscopus inornatus, dusky warbler Phylloscopus schwarzi, redbreasted flycatcher Ficedula parva, collared flycatcher Ficedula albicollis, the eastern subspecies of the woodchat shrike Lanius senator niloticus, scarlet rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus and the little bunting Emberiza pusilla. [eng] Darwin and the islands. In his journey of circumnavigation aboard H.M.S. Beagle, Charles Darwin visited several islands. His extraordinary observations lay the foundations of evolutionary thought and influenced the subsequent development of his theories. The islands are also perceptively studied from a geological viewpoint, leading to the proposal of a general hypothesis, still extant, on the formation of coralline atolls. Likewise, Darwin developed some biogeographical hypotheses on the process of colonization ... |
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