The Greater Flamingo

Contents
......Page 4
Preface
......Page 7
Acknowledgements
......Page 8
1. Introduction
......Page 10
Flamingos and man
......Page 11
Interest in flamingos: recent history
......Page 12
Focus on the Camargue......Page 13
The flamingo specialist group
......Page 16
About this book
......Page 17
2. The flamingos
......Page 19
Ancestry and relationships of flamingos
......Page 20
Morphology and general description
......Page 23
Life history
......Page 33
Discussion
......Page 38
The pioneers and early years of discovery
......Page 43
Contemporary research – what have we learned?
......Page 46
Distribution and numbers
......Page 49
Capturing and marking flamingos
......Page 52
Capture-resighting: estimating demographic parameters from marked individuals
......Page 58
Foraging ecology
......Page 62
Breeding ecology
......Page 64
Captive flocks
......Page 67
Distribution
......Page 78
Numbers
......Page 83
Regional summaries
......Page 90
Population trends
......Page 94
5. Movements
......Page 98
Flight behaviour
......Page 99
Types of movements
......Page 101
Spatial patterns
......Page 110
Some concluding remarks
......Page 116
6. Foraging ecology
......Page 119
Feeding apparatus
......Page 120
Food
......Page 121
Feeding behaviour and foraging methods
......Page 122
Foraging and drinking flights
......Page 129
7. Mating system and mate choice
......Page 135
Group displays
......Page 136
Pair formation and copulation
......Page 140
Seasonal monogamy in Greater Flamingos......Page 142
Age-assortative pairing
......Page 147
8. Breeding biology
......Page 150
Timing of breeding
......Page 151
Colony establishment
......Page 159
Breeding stages
......Page 162
Breeding success
......Page 174
9. Survival and recruitment
......Page 182
Causes of post-fledgling mortality
......Page 183
Estimating survival
......Page 186
Factors influencing survival
......Page 190
Recruitment
......Page 191
10. Conservation and management
......Page 196
Threats and conflicts
......Page 197
Conservation actions
......Page 208
11. Conclusions: what does the future hold?......Page 227
Research in the future
......Page 228
Conservation issues
......Page 232
Epilogue
......Page 237
12. An inventory of the more important Greater Flamingo breeding sites
......Page 238
Greater Flamingo breeding sites
......Page 240
West Africa
......Page 241
Mediterranean
......Page 245
Asia
......Page 259
East Africa
......Page 265
Southern Africa
......Page 268
Appendices
......Page 272
Glossary
......Page 300
References
......Page 303
Colour plates
......Page 70
Index
......Page 333