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   THE RING, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2000, Proceedings of Shrike Symposium

CONTENTS:

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL SHRIKE SYMPOSIUM

DRIES VAN NIEUWENHUYSE, PRZEMYS£AW BUSSE, REUVEN YOSEF, LORENZO FORNASARI, NORBERT LEFRANC, FRED LOHRER
Introduction to the 3rd International Shrike Symposium, 15-18 September 1999, Gdansk, Poland
[74kB]

Food and hunting behaviour

JAN KUPER, GERT-JAN VAN DUINEN, MARIJN NIJSSEN, MARTEN GEERTSMA and HANS ESSELINK
Is the decline of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) in the dutch coastal dune area caused by a decrease in insect diversity?
Key words: Lanius collurio, degrading habitats, food ecology, food availability, insect diversity
[146kB]

CLAIRE L. DEVEREUX, ROB SLOTOW and MIKE R. PERRIN
Fiscal Shrike (Lanius collaris) foraging behaviour in natural and human-modified habitats
Key words: Lanius collaris, habitat change, foraging success
[107kB]

GRZEGORZ LOREK, PIOTR TRYJANOWSKI and JOLANTA LOREK
Birds as prey of the Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor)
Key words: food, foraging behaviour, Great Grey Shrike, Lanius excubitor, prey choice, hunting tactics
[116kB]

IGOR GORBAN
Wintering behaviour of the Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) in the western Ukraine
Key words: Great Grey Shrike, Ukraine, hunting methods
[69kB]

CSABA MOSKÁT, YUZO FUJIMAKI and SATOSHI YAMAGISHI
Perch site preference of the Bull-headed Shrike (Lanius bucephalus) during the breeding season in Japan
Key words: shrike, Lanius bucephalus, habitat, perch site, Japan
[113kB]

Habitat selection and distribution of shrikes

FRANCISCO CAMPOS and ALBERTO LIZARRAGA
The Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) - an indicator of climate and vegetation type?
Key words: bioindicator, climate, Lanius collurio, Red-backed Shrike, Spain, vegetation type
[121kB]

DRIES VAN NIEUWENHUYSE
Dispersal patterns of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) in Gaume, Belgium
Key words: Lanius collurio, dispersal, site fidelity
[140kB]

MARTEN GEERTSMA, HANS VAN BERKEL and HANS ESSELINK
Are high fitness values sufficient to maintain a dutch population of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)?
Key words: Lanius collurio, population size, reproduction, survival, dispersal, immigration, sink
[123kB]

STANIS£AW KUZNIAK and PIOTR TRYJANOWSKI
Distribution and breeding habitat of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) in an intensively used farmland
Key words: Lanius collurio, habitat selection, farmland, conservation
[75kB]

CLAIRE L. DEVEREUX, ROB SLOTOW and MIKE R. PERRIN
Territoriality and habitat use of Fiscal Shrikes (Lanius collaris) in South Africa
Key words: Lanius collaris, territorial behaviour, perches, habitat selection, savannah
[152kB]

CSABA VADASZ, GERGO HALMOS, LASZLO KOVATS, TIBOR CSORGO
Autumn migration of the Isabelline Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) in Mongolia
Key words: Isabelline Shrike, Mongolia, migration
[79kB]

Reproductive ecology of shrikes

REUVEN YOSEF
The Mayfield method for standarisation of shrike breeding studies: the case of the Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) in south-central Florida
Key words: Loggerhead Shrike, nesting ecology, Florida
[104kB]

REUVEN YOSEF, CHRISTIAAN MARITZ, ABRIE MARITZ and GERHARD VERDOORN
Physical properties of nests of the Common Fiscal Shrike (Lanius collaris subcoronatus) in the Kalahari desert, South Africa
Key words: Fiscal Shrikes, nests, Kalahari Desert, South Africa
[66kB]

ROBERT HORVATH, ROLANDFARKAS and REUVEN YOSEF
Nesting ecology of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) in northeastern Hungary
Key words: Lanius collurio, Red-backed Shrike, nesting ecology, Hungary
[86kB]

BORIS P. NIKOLOV
An investigation of nest building and nests of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) in Bulgaria
Key words: Red-backed Shrike, Lanius collurio, nest building, nest composition, nest structure, Bulgaria
[142kB]

Nest site selection and reproductive success of shrikes

LORENZO FORNASARI and RENATO MASSA
Habitat or climate? Influences of environmental factors on the breeding success of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)
Key words: Lanius collurio, breeding success, habitat, climate, nest predation
[121kB]

PÉTER LOVASZI, ISTVAN BARTOL and CSABA MOSKAT
Nest-site selection and breeding success of the Lesser Grey Shrike (lanius minor) in Hungary
Key words: shrike, Lanius minor, nest-site selection, breeding success, Hungary
[142kB]

AMBER E. BUDDEN and JONATHAN WRIGHT
Nestling diet, chick growth and breeding success in the Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor)
Key words: Lanius meridionalis, brood demand, parental care, prey selection
[105kB]

MATTHEW A. ETTERSON
Monte Carlo simulation tests for non-randomness in the spatial distribution of breeding shrikes
Key words: Loggerhead Shrike, aggregation, Monte Carlo
[156kB]

V. V. IVANOVSKY and V. J. KUZMENKO
Breeding biology and ecology of the Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) in northern Belarus
Key words:
[58kB]

General

MARTIN HROMADA, VLADIMIR DUDINAK and REUVEN YOSEF
An inside-out perspective of the true shrikes - a review of the helminthofauna
Key words:
[150kB]

BARBARA DIEHL, GRZEGORZ LOREK and PIOTR TRYJANOWSKI
Shrikeology in Poland - a review and bibliography
Key words: shrikes, review, bibliography
[122kB]

REUVEN YOSEF and PIOTR TRYJANOWSKI
Phenology and biometric measurements of migratory Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator) at Eilat, Israel
Key words:
[84kB]