Fauna, Zoogeography, and Ecology of Birds in Bulgaria

Boev, Zlatozar; Milchev, Boyan; Popov, Vasil

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5781-6_3

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“…* -a destroyed brood in a respective nest site in the Valley 1. táblázat A gyöngybagoly (Tyto alba) fészkelőhelyei a Kazanlak-völgyben Dél−Közép-Bulgáriában és a szomszédos Délkelet-Bulgáriában (Miltschev et al 2002, B. Milchev unpubl 2007) is not a surprise. This study corroborates the results of Miltschev et al (2002), Milchev et al (2006) and Boev et al (2007) that the flat and hilly agricultural landscapes in south Bulgaria is the most suitable area for Barn Owls breeding in the country. The breeding density in optimal regions of Europe can reach as high as 10-30 bp/100 km², but usually their density is only 5 bp/100 km² of Central Europe (Mebs & Scherzinger 2000, Golawski & Kasprzykowski 2006.…”

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Breeding Distribution and Nest Site Diversity of Barn Owl (Tyto Alba) in the Context of Restoration of Agricultural Sector in Central South Bulgaria

Milchev

Gruychev

2014

Ornis Hungarica

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The Barn Owl (Tyto alba) bred in 15 UTM squares (75%, n = 20) of the Kazanlak Valley (central south Bulgaria) at 33 localities (55% confirmed, 12% probable and 33% possible breeding). Its distribution in the Valley was found to be five times larger and its population size ten times greater during our study period than previously thought. Evidence of one to five breeding localities (mean 2.2±1.3) was detected in each occupied UTM square. A breeding density of 4.1 bp/100 km 2 was close to the average in Central Europe. Nests inside or on metal frames and ducts were typical in the region and gave possibility for its successful breeding in most of the habitable buildings. The Barn Owls were breeding mainly in poorly maintained and abandoned buildings whose supply has not decreased markedly since the agricultural restoration started in Bulgaria after it joined the European Union and intensive industrial agriculture has resumed with EU support. Currently, it appears that Barn Owl is not threatened by a 'housing shortageʼ over the next decade.

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Breeding Distribution and Nest Site Diversity of Barn Owl (Tyto Alba) in the Context of Restoration of Agricultural Sector in Central South Bulgaria

Milchev

Gruychev

2014

Ornis Hungarica

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“…Many Miocene ducks are known from very few finds, sometimes even single incomplete bones (e.g., Boev, 2007Boev, , 2020Gál et al, 2000;Göhlich, 2009;Kessler and Venczel, 2009). This makes it very difficult or even impossible to compare such specimens with those previously described.…”

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An intriguing new species of dabbling duck (Aves: Anseriformes) from the middle Miocene of Austria

Bochenski,

Happ,

Salwa

et al. 2023

Palaeontol Electron

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Several dozen species of Miocene anatids are known worldwide, but few are known from abundant finds and even fewer from nearly complete specimens. Most fossil ducks have been described from very scant fragmentary remains, making it very difficult or impossible to compare them with one another. In Austria, only a few heavily damaged remains of Miocene anatids have been found so far. Here, we describe a new genus and species of a nearly complete medium-sized duck preserved on four slabs from the middle Miocene of Lavanttal, southern Austria. A number of features on various parts of the skeleton including the coracoid, humerus and pelvis indicate that it was a dabbling duck in an ecological sense, and exclude the option of it being a diving duck. The new species shows a unique mosaic of features typical of different groups of ducks and some features specific to it. Its more precise systematic position is uncertain, pending future finding of more fossil specimens.

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“…Both species are migrant, strongly aerial, and linked to nest sites in cliffs and crags (Cramp, 1998). Both species are also known in the fossil record since the Middle Pleistocene (Boev, 1998(Boev, , 2001Tyrberg, 1998Tyrberg, , 2008.…”

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Mid-Late Pleistocene Neanderthal landscapes in southern Italy: Paleoecological contributions of the avian assemblage from Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, southern Italy

Carrera

Scarponi

Martini

et al. 2021

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Fauna, Zoogeography, and Ecology of Birds in Bulgaria

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Breeding Distribution and Nest Site Diversity of Barn Owl (Tyto Alba) in the Context of Restoration of Agricultural Sector in Central South Bulgaria

Breeding Distribution and Nest Site Diversity of Barn Owl (Tyto Alba) in the Context of Restoration of Agricultural Sector in Central South Bulgaria

An intriguing new species of dabbling duck (Aves: Anseriformes) from the middle Miocene of Austria

Mid-Late Pleistocene Neanderthal landscapes in southern Italy: Paleoecological contributions of the avian assemblage from Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, southern Italy

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