Has the magnificent frigatebird Fregata magnificens in the Cape Verde Islands reached the end of the road?
- On 6 October 2012, the remains of a frigatebird were recovered at João Barrosa beach (16°01.387’N, 022°43.610’W), southeastern Boavista, Cape Verde Islands. The carcass had been found in mid September 2012, during a beach survey to monitor loggerhead turtle nesting activity in the area and was then buried in the sand. The field assistant of the Cabo Verde Natura 2000 turtle project who found the bird indicated the location of the corpse to the first author. His description of the bird allowed it to be identified as an adult female magnificent frigatebird Fregata magnificens Mathews, 1914. The remains consisted of numerous black and white feathers as well as several bones, including the skull, thorax and wing bones, which are preserved at the Cabo Verde Natura 2000 headquarters at Sal Rei, Boavista. Some feathers, together with remains of an egg and tissue of a mummified male found at Ilhéu de Baluarte in 2005 (see below), were deposited at the Centro de Análise Molecular, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CMA/CIBIO), Vairão, Portugal.
Author: | Pedro López Suárez, Cornelis J. Hazevoet, Luís Palma |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-370226 |
ISSN: | 2074-5737 |
Parent Title (Multiple languages): | Zoologia Caboverdiana = Revista da Sociedade Cabo Veriana de Zoologia |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2015/02/11 |
Year of first Publication: | 2012 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2015/02/11 |
Tag: | Cape Verde Islands; extinction; magnificent frigatebird |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 5 |
First Page: | 82 |
Last Page: | 86 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 368329895 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Zoologia Caboverdiana / Zoologia Caboverdiana Vol. 3, No. 2 (2012) |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-369650 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |