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Ornithological Science
Abstract
Abstract
We compared the number of individuals and juvenile-to-adult ratio of Rustic Bunting Emberiza rustica, Black-faced Bunting E. spodocephala, and Reed Bunting E. schoeniclus captured in sound-lured and unlured mist nets at an autumn stopover site during October and November 2004–2011. The numbers of all three buntings captured and the proportion of juveniles of Black-faced and Reed buntings increased with sound luring. Use of sound luring could help further our understanding of migration ecology and conservation of the globally vulnerable Rustic Bunting and its congeners through increasing the number of individuals captured and banded.
Takao Baba, Hidetada Fujii, Tadakazu Hiroi, Tohru Mano and Shozo Nagumo made equal contributions with the authors in the operation of banding at the Fukushimagata banding station. We owe our deepest gratitude to the many volunteer banders and students of the annual banding workshop and study meeting for their help with the banding at Fukushimagata banding station especially the Niigata Group, Japanese Bird Banding Association. We thank them for their invaluable support, without which this study would not have been possible.
The Japanese Bird-Banding Scheme has been entrusted to the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology by the Ministry of the Environment. We have used the banding data with permission from the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology and Biodiversity Center of Japan. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Specially Designated Research Promotion) ‘Development and disclosure of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology database system (2009–2014)’ from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. We also thank the editor, two anonymous reviewers and Philip D. Round for helpful comments on the manuscript and improving the English.
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