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Captive breeding programmes for waterfowl and flamingos

Captive breeding programmes for waterfowl and flamingos Captive breeding programmes for waterfowl and flamingos J A N E T KEAR Assistant Director, Wildfowl TrustlCurator, Martin Mere, The Wildfowl Trust, Martin Mere, Burscough, Nr Ormskirk, Lancashire, Great Britain Programmes designed to increase the population size of rare waterfowl are not all carried out by or in zoological gardens. These birds are kept also by private individuals and specialists, who have contributed greatly to our knowledge. In addition, not all captive programmes are aimed initially at successful hrceding. For instance, some seek to maintain birds disease-free to sexual maturity and beyond; others are investigating diets in order to improve nutrition prior to mating. Waterfowl that nest at high latitudes still present breeding problems in temperate zoos, and investigations are being made into hormone levels at mate-selection, egg-laying and moult. Flamingos continue to nest erratically in captivity (as in the wild) but the environmental and social signals that bring the birds into breeding condition are slightly better understood. I shall review briefly some of this research and then, even more briefly, a few of the captive breeding programmes where the situation has changed in recent years. PHYSIOLOGY OF W A T E R F O W L BREEDING http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Zoo Yearbook Wiley

Captive breeding programmes for waterfowl and flamingos

KEAR, JANET
International Zoo Yearbook , Volume 24 (1) – Jan 1, 1986
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Wiley
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Copyright © 1986 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0074-9664
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1748-1090
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10.1111/j.1748-1090.1985.tb02515.x
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Captive breeding programmes for waterfowl and flamingos J A N E T KEAR Assistant Director, Wildfowl TrustlCurator, Martin Mere, The Wildfowl Trust, Martin Mere, Burscough, Nr Ormskirk, Lancashire, Great Britain Programmes designed to increase the population size of rare waterfowl are not all carried out by or in zoological gardens. These birds are kept also by private individuals and specialists, who have contributed greatly to our knowledge. In addition, not all captive programmes are aimed initially at successful hrceding. For instance, some seek to maintain birds disease-free to sexual maturity and beyond; others are investigating diets in order to improve nutrition prior to mating. Waterfowl that nest at high latitudes still present breeding problems in temperate zoos, and investigations are being made into hormone levels at mate-selection, egg-laying and moult. Flamingos continue to nest erratically in captivity (as in the wild) but the environmental and social signals that bring the birds into breeding condition are slightly better understood. I shall review briefly some of this research and then, even more briefly, a few of the captive breeding programmes where the situation has changed in recent years. PHYSIOLOGY OF W A T E R F O W L BREEDING

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International Zoo Yearbook – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 1986

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