<b>BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE PARIAH KITE <i>MILVUS MIGRANS</i> AT DELHI ZOOLOGICAL PARK</b>

Desai, J. H.; Malhotra, Anita

doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1979.tb06849.x

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“…The present study highlights the hatching success of 83%, which is greater than that found in New Delhi (55%) (Desai and Malhotra 1979), but similar to the results (84%) obtained in Italy (Sergio and Boto 1999). According to Bustamante and Hiraldo (1989), juveniles started their first flights from 42 to 62 days after hatching.…”

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Nest characteristics and breeding success of Black Kites (Milvus migrans migrans) in the High Plateau (Algeria)

Messabhia

Bensaci

Telailia³

et al. 2019

Zoology and Ecology

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The breeding ecology of the Black Kite Milvus migrans migrans in Algeria was first studied in 2014 and 2015 on Tarf Mountain in the semi-arid High Plateaus region. The nearest-neighbour nest distance was found to range from 130 to 550 m for colonial pairs and from 1,730 to 2,390 m for the solitary ones. All 12 monitored nests were placed on cliffs at different heights ranging from 149 to 155 m. The mean egg laying period was 15 days, and the mean clutch size was 2.83 ± 0.31 and 3 ± 00 eggs per nest in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The mean hatching success was 83% and that of fledging 75%. Only 2 nests were predated. Our results disagree with those of the previous studies that were carried out mainly in the Mediterranean basin and Asia, differing in such nest characteristics as the nearest - neighbour nest distance, cliff and nesting heights, egg laying period and hatching success. Otherwise, no consistent differences in clutch size and fledging success were revealed. Finally, we determined that Black Kites tend to build their nest on the eastern side of cliffs. However, our analysis showed no effect of nest placement on breeding parameters and success.

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“…In Europe and Asia, the Black Kite's breeding ecology and its breeding success have been widely studied (Desai and Malhotra 1979;Koga, Siraishi, and Uchida 1989;Viñuela and Veiga 1992;Sergio and Boto 1999). However, no study on the Black Kite's breeding ecology and its breeding success has been carried out in North Africa.…”

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Nest characteristics and breeding success of Black Kites (Milvus migrans migrans) in the High Plateau (Algeria)

Messabhia

Bensaci

Telailia³

et al. 2019

Zoology and Ecology

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“…The breeding season of Black kite is starting from January and ending in June attested in the present study is also pointed out in certain other studies (Sivakumar andJayabalan, 2004, Desai andMalhotra, 1979). Both partners of the study species engaged in nest building and parental caring no- ticed present study also pointed out (Ricklefs, 1974;Ridley, 1978;Subhendu et al, 2017).…”

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“…: http://doi.org/10.53550/EEC.2022.v28i02.069 breeding sites; Flood light, mobile tower and masjid top (Sharma and Soni, 2016). The nest tree selection of black kites demands lots of parameters (Bhuiyan and Khan, 1981), (Cain and Hallgarth (1974), colonial nesting behavior is a unique system among black kites (Desai and Malhotra (1979) Another behaviors like territory change to avoid natural predation and anthropogenic stress were also noticed in black kites (Donazar and Hiraido (1999).…”

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Breeding success of Black kite (Milvus migrans) on Mobile Towers of Malappuram and Calicut Districts of Kerala

Chullakkattil¹,

Seedikkoya²

2022

EEC

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Adaptive selection and utilization of the nesting and foraging resources utilized by Milvus migrans makes them more successful predators. High degree of nest loss due to predation is the major threatening in natural habitat, easiness in nest construction and camouflage from predators leads to a high degree of nest success and fledging success on the mobile tower is observed to be the major factor to such a selection behavior. Survival rate of fledglings on mobile tower in 2013- 74 %, 2014- 81%, 2015- 96 % and in 2016 - 100% with total of 89 % survival for all four years. In natural habitat 2013- 65%, 2014 -63%, 2015-65%, 2016 -55% and the black kites (Milvus migrans) conventionally use nesttrees as Cocosnucifera, fig species, Azadirachta indica, Tamarindus indica, Mangifera indica etc., while nowadays due to various anthropogenic stress including wetland depletion, drastic urbanization leads to habitat fragmentation and shortage of appropriate nest trees would compel them to select an alternative remedy to tolerate the short comings in the breeding ground. Shrinkage of ideal habitat make their life more competitive in both intraspecifically and interspecifically. As a part of that there would be a strong trend to select mobile towers as nesting habitat among black kites. Test association between nest type and survival has a chi-square value of 19.44 with P value <0.0001. Therefore, there is strong association between survival and nest type (tower/tree) i.e., nests in tower have significantly higher survival rate. The higher survival rate in the tower is mainly due to low predation rate, while it is higher in natural habitat. Black kites considering as potential scavengers and their ecosystem services also considerably high. So, retaining and protection of natural habitat is a strong recommendation initiative to protect these umbrella species insitu.

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“…Black Kite in India has been studied by Desai and Malhotra [8] Verghese [25] and Malhotra [21] and Black Kite has been studied elsewhere by Oddi and Moltoni [20], Arroyo [1], Arroyo and Alarcón [3], Bustamante and Hiraldo [5][6], Veiga and Hiraldo [24], Blanco [4], Vinuela [26] and Sergio et.al [23]. Some work on various birds of Kurukshetra has been done by Gupta and Kaushik [10][11][12][13][14] and Gupta et al [15][16][17][18].…”

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Black Kite Populations Are Suffering Declining Trends In Kurukshetra And Likely To Get Further Depleted: An Analysis Of Causes

Kaushik¹,

Gupta²

2014

JTLS

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Black Kite Milvus migrans was seen capturing and captivating everything nearby the offal and garbage sites in Kurukshetra environs until recent past. Today it has been observed that between 2000 and 2010, its depletion is speeding fast, although not noticed in the scientific and social world. The skies in late morning hours are empty. Garbage sites demonstrate the absence of criss-crossing flights of this Kite. The popular sites of the roosting in the shape of Peepal Ficus religiosa, Banyan Ficus benghalensis and Mango Mangifera indica trees have been cut down in the first place. In Kurukshetra, the prime reason for the depletion could be attributed to destruction of foraging grounds (Elimination of garbage dumping sites), cutting down of traditional roosting and nesting sites and construction of colonies in the nearby erstwhile agriculture fields. The contiguous agriculture fields are devoid of any traditional trees like Peepal, Mango and hence no roosting and nesting places. The soaring Kites in the high skies in the forenoon and afternoon sessions were more or less absent. So much so that huge Garbage sites at Panipat Railway compound had no Black Kites. Shockingly, it seems that like Vultures, Black Kites are on their way to elimination in Haryana.

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**BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE PARIAH KITE MILVUS MIGRANS AT DELHI ZOOLOGICAL PARK**

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

Nest characteristics and breeding success of Black Kites (Milvus migrans migrans) in the High Plateau (Algeria)

Nest characteristics and breeding success of Black Kites (Milvus migrans migrans) in the High Plateau (Algeria)

Breeding success of Black kite (Milvus migrans) on Mobile Towers of Malappuram and Calicut Districts of Kerala

Black Kite Populations Are Suffering Declining Trends In Kurukshetra And Likely To Get Further Depleted: An Analysis Of Causes

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