| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1984 |
| Authors: | Howard, GW, Aspinwall, DR |
| Journal: | Ostrich |
| Volume: | 55 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Date Published: | 1984 |
| ISBN Number: | 0030-6525 |
| Keywords: | Balaeniceps, Balaeniceps rex, Balaenicipitidae, Bugeranus, Bugeranus carunculatus, Ciconiidae, Ephippiorhynchus, Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, Gruidae, Grus, Grus carunculata, Grus carunculatus, Grus grus, Struthio, Struthio camelus, Struthionidae, Zambia |
| Abstract: | Summary Howard, G. W. & Aspinwall, D. R. 1984. Aerial censuses of Shoebills, Saddlebilled Storks and Wattled Cranes at the Bangweulu Swamps and Kafue Flats, Zambia. Ostrich 55: 207?212. Aerial counts of three wetland species of uncertain conservation status were made in Zambia when the opportunity arose during Lechwe Kobus leche censuses. A portion of the Bangweulu Swamps was estimated to have a minimum population of 232 Shoebills Balaeniceps rex, 275 Saddlebilled Storks Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis and 1718 Wattled Cranes Bugeranus carunculatus. An estimate of 3282 Wattled Cranes on part of the Kafue Flats was very similar to that calculated in a count there nine years previously. Further censuses are recommended.Summary Howard, G. W. & Aspinwall, D. R. 1984. Aerial censuses of Shoebills, Saddlebilled Storks and Wattled Cranes at the Bangweulu Swamps and Kafue Flats, Zambia. Ostrich 55: 207?212. Aerial counts of three wetland species of uncertain conservation status were made in Zambia when the opportunity arose during Lechwe Kobus leche censuses. A portion of the Bangweulu Swamps was estimated to have a minimum population of 232 Shoebills Balaeniceps rex, 275 Saddlebilled Storks Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis and 1718 Wattled Cranes Bugeranus carunculatus. An estimate of 3282 Wattled Cranes on part of the Kafue Flats was very similar to that calculated in a count there nine years previously. Further censuses are recommended. |
| URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1984.9634489 |
| Short Title: | Ostrich |
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