Scientific
progress report November 2005
Bruno A. Walther & Carsten
Rahbek
Data
acquisition
After having contacted about 300 individuals or organizations via mail or email
asking for data or references and entered the data that we received into our Access©
database resulting in more than 60000 individual records on Palearctic
migrants in Africa (see previous progress reports), we now have also
incorporated data from several internet sources, e.g. the data made accessible
at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) website
We have also entered
more than 4000 citations into an Endnote© reference library, with most of them
containing data on Palearctic migratory birds in
Database
publication
We have set up a data portal on this website which makes data accessible to any user. We
also updated the entire website, including the species list, the internet
links, and the acknowledgments.
Publications
Schäffer
N, Walther BA, Gutteridge K, Rahbek C (2006). The African
migration and wintering grounds of the Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola. Bird Conservation
International 16 (In press).
Walther BA (2006).
The winter distribution and habitat use of the
near-threatened cinereous bunting Emberiza cineracea. Sandgrouse (In press).
Walther
BA, Wisz MS, Rahbek C (2004). Known and predicted African winter
distributions and habitat use of the endangered
Walther BA,
Rahbek C (2002). Where do Palearctic migratory birds overwinter in