L’Autore descrive un esemplare di Numenius arquata conservato nelle collezioni del Mu-seo Civico di Scienze Naturali di Brescia che, sulla base dei caratteri biometrici, risulta appartenere allassp. orientalis. Cattu...L’Autore descrive un esemplare di Numenius arquata conservato nelle collezioni del Mu-seo Civico di Scienze Naturali di Brescia che, sulla base dei caratteri biometrici, risulta appartenere allassp. orientalis. Catturato a Ghedi (BS) nel 1899, l’esemplare rappresenta il primo ritrovamento per l’Italia. First italian record of Numenius arquata orientalis C.L. Brehm, 1831. The Author descri-bes one specimen of Numenius arquata collected at Ghedi (Brescia) in 1899, actually in the collectionsof the Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali di Brescia. On the basis of its biometrical characters it is tobe attributed to the subspecies orientalis. This is the first specimen of this species so far discovered in Italy.展开更多
The Sociable Lapwing(Vanellus gregarius) was recently categorized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN due to a strong decline and overall range contraction.Until now the only published Chinese record of the species w...The Sociable Lapwing(Vanellus gregarius) was recently categorized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN due to a strong decline and overall range contraction.Until now the only published Chinese record of the species was a vagrant sighting in 1998.We reviewed reports and historic literature from a German ornithological expedition in 1876,which reported the species to be a breeding bird in Xinjiang,western China in the second half of the 19th century.According to local expertise,the species seems since to have become extinct in Xinjiang,but surveys are suggested to clarify its current status.展开更多
文摘L’Autore descrive un esemplare di Numenius arquata conservato nelle collezioni del Mu-seo Civico di Scienze Naturali di Brescia che, sulla base dei caratteri biometrici, risulta appartenere allassp. orientalis. Catturato a Ghedi (BS) nel 1899, l’esemplare rappresenta il primo ritrovamento per l’Italia. First italian record of Numenius arquata orientalis C.L. Brehm, 1831. The Author descri-bes one specimen of Numenius arquata collected at Ghedi (Brescia) in 1899, actually in the collectionsof the Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali di Brescia. On the basis of its biometrical characters it is tobe attributed to the subspecies orientalis. This is the first specimen of this species so far discovered in Italy.
基金funded by the Darwin Initiative of the UK government and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)support from Swarovski optics, The Rufford Foundation and Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (DO-G)
文摘The Sociable Lapwing(Vanellus gregarius) was recently categorized as Critically Endangered by the IUCN due to a strong decline and overall range contraction.Until now the only published Chinese record of the species was a vagrant sighting in 1998.We reviewed reports and historic literature from a German ornithological expedition in 1876,which reported the species to be a breeding bird in Xinjiang,western China in the second half of the 19th century.According to local expertise,the species seems since to have become extinct in Xinjiang,but surveys are suggested to clarify its current status.
