PALM-NUT VULTURES Gypohierax angolensis IN RAPHIA PALMS AT MTUNZINI, ZULULAND
| Autor: | W. M. Austen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1953 |
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| Zdroj: | Ostrich. 24:98-102 |
| ISSN: | 1727-947X 0030-6525 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00306525.1953.9633804 |
| Popis: | Little has been recorded in South Africa of these remarkable birds alld the notes that follow were submitted at my request. The author is a Ranger of the Natal Parks, Game and Fish Preservation Board, and his keen observations reveal the interesting fact that a pair of Gypohierax have managed to discover a small and isolated, yet now well established grove of Raphia or Raffia Palms Raphia vinifera. It is known that elsewhere ill Africa the range of the birds coincides largely with that of the Oil Palm, and it is remarkable that so far as Zululand is concerned the species so far appears to be resident only in the two places where Raphia Palms occur; that is to say near Maputa in the extreme North and now in this artificially and quite recently introduced small grove. The name Palm-nut Vulture was first suggested by Mr. R. E. Moreau in 1943; it is considered far more suitable than the old and misleading term of Vulturine Fish Eagle, the latter apparently derived only from the bird's casual likeness 10 Halia... |
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