Dear colleagues,
could somebody recommend publications dedicated to efforts and results on increasing the nesting success in waterbirds preferring low banks for breeding (waterfowl, gulls, waders, etc) in habitats being vulnerable of severe water table variation? I mean samples for constructing artificial islands/banks, floating islands, or artificial nests; attracting birds to safer but unusual habitats with sound playing and dummies; and any other measures... and their results. In other words, what was been made ny humans for more number of successful nests in such unstable circumstances, and how much effective were such efforts?
Results, which were published in journals or at Internet pages, are interesting. Of course, I'm most interesting in trials being successful, but unsuccessful trials add us some experience as well. Having already found few publications on this subject, I'd like to find more ones though.
I suggested you these papers, see the link below :
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273960858_Aspects_of_the_breeding_ecology_of_the_Purple_Swamphen_Porphyrio_porphyrio_in_the_wetland_complex_of_Guerbes-Sanhadja_north-east_Algeria?_sg=bMg5WngsAxPC52UZ7C-RxcAbf95dmX_hWg_kCniXtSNZaCf6b76fPg1Jt1VCQlbCJ0xak37d92wpzKKz7J1ni9IyyDlA0zsi09lNVFHz.waZv-u6ySMx5FDJpiM3F05htYeeYm37Jd5Z74flkhXVNX1mtmCLh0HU5uy3QvWWGwn6p1OPO5byvzSAb6_DQGg
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40103271_Effects_of_Climate_Variation_on_the_Breeding_Ecology_of_Arctic_Shorebirds
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.5248
I Hope that this Can help you ...
Sincerely,
Dear Igor
1. Your question seems to cover both birds of freshwater wetlands and birds of coastal/marine habitats, termed "wading birds" in Australia and I think "shorebirds" in US English.
2. Given your location in Siberia, which is the nesting area for a large number of migratory wading birds that migrate to spend the summer in Australia, notably Moreton Bay in Queensland, there is considerable interest in Australia in the welfare of the birds who fly to Siberia every year to breed.
3. There is a body called the Queensland Wader Study Group which includes in its members some seriously competent scientists and naturalists who are very expert in the migratory birds that travel between our two countries. Please see their group's website at https://waders.org.au/ . I advise you to contact the Secretary using the contact details on their website. If you can't establish access, get back to me at my Griffith address [email protected] .
4. The QWSG is affiliated with Birds Queensland and in turn Birds Australia which include scientists and naturalists expert in freshwater wading birds. QWSG may be prepared to pass on an enquiry from you.
Dear Bara Mouslim and Geoff Edwards ,
thank you very much! Tthe information you refer is important, but it's not that I'd like to find. It seems I have formulated the main point of my question not so good as wished (revisited). I need to find certain results of that was made by humans on certain water pools (artificial ponds or natural lakes with highly variable water level) to decrease the loss of bird nests on low banks and spits due to severe variation (mainly, periodical fast increases) of water table. A sample: the Serre-Ponçon Dam the artificial floating islands were made there (but unfortunatey I couldn't find results of its work having being published, especially none was published in Engish while there is too little info about this project in their presentations in French)
Thanks Igor for that further explanation. Most of my previous answer still applies. Most "civil society" ornithological societies in Australia (and no doubt in other countries) would include some members who would have experience about your subject for freshwater wetlands; and the Queensland Wader Study Group would have knowledge about tidal areas.
I am attaching a copy of a report written more than 25 years ago about an artificial roosting site in Moreton Bay for marine wading birds threatened by the absence of roosting sites at high tide (because the shoreline has been developed or is populated with humans or domestic dogs that disturb them while they are resting). I do not know how successful this facility has been after it was constructed, but members of the Queensland Wader Study Group might know. Contact me again if you can't find anyone with experience of how successful it was.
This facility was not constructed in the preferred location. The preferred location was refused because staff in the Environment Department were concerned about damage to marine seagrass beds.
Much more recently, a proposal has been suggested to purchase old jetty pontoons to anchor them offshore so that at high tide, birds have a platform above water level that is out of reach of wandering dogs. I don't know of any place where this has been constructed yet but it's a promising idea.
Dear Geoff Edwards thank you! It is closer to my need. However, I'm interested in namely saving nests on breeding grounds rather than in saving foraging sites etc.
No worries Igor. I am not an expert in the field so can only suggest the names of some groups that include experts. Try Birds Australia or its affiliated groups.
Hi Igor,
In Spain, for example, work has been done on a good number of wetlands that included natural, artificial, fixed or floating islands. However, few have condensed the results in publications in English. I give you two examples in articles, although I have reports of other examples and I know a good number of other cases.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256460347_Greater_Flamingo_monitoring_and_conservation_at_Fuente_de_Piedra_Lake
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297759454_El_charran_comun_Sterna_hirundo_en_la_bahia_de_Santander_evolucion_de_la_colonia_y_propuestas_de_conservacion
Hi Igor,
I add some very interesting papers published by my colleague Esther Sebastián-González about habitat and pond characteristics affect the waterbird occupation and population dynamics in artificial water reservoirs and ponds.
Article Habitat Use by Waterbirds in Relation to Pond Size, Water De...
Article Linking cost efficiency evaluation with population viability...
Article Effect of landscape configuration and habitat quality on the...
Article Key Factors Controlling the Metapopulation Dynamics of the L...
Hi Xurxo Piñeiro Alvarez namy thanks ! Unfortunately I couldn't find that I'm seeking for in two papers you refer to (see below)
Hi Juan Manuel Pérez-García , many thanks too! Yes, I know some publications of Esther. In this case, however, I search for more local information about, namely, which constructions humans made/make/can make artificially to increase the breeding success of bank birds in a water-unstable situation, and how much successful/unsuccessful these measures are.
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