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Ecology and ethno-ornithology of Black Kites Milvus migrans in Delhi, India
- Alternative title:
- Black Kites and people in Delhi, India
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Rapid worldwide urbanization is generating a steep growth in studies on urban ecology, but tropical cities have had extremely scarce attention. To fill this gap of knowledge, in this thesis, I studied a dense population of an avian predator and facultative scavenger, the Black Kite Milvus migrans, breeding within Delhi, a megacity with16-million-inhabitants. I studied the ways in which this species managed to adapt, respond and exploit such an extreme urban environment by running analyses at ...
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Authors
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+ Jhalam YV
- Institution:
- Wildlife Institute of India
- Role:
- Contributor
+ Qureshi, Q
- Institution:
- Wildlife Institute of India
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- Contributor
+ Gosler, A
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- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-8074-8064
+ Sergio, F
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- Supervisor
+ Felix Scholarship
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- Funder identifier:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008319
- Grant:
- Felix Scholarship for a D.Phil. in Zoology (2014)
- Felix Scholarship Grant for GPS telemetry equipment
- Felix Scholarship extension grant
- Programme:
- Felix Scholarship Trust, University of Oxford
+ Somerville College, University of Oxford
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- Funder identifier:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010358
- Grant:
- Discretionary Grant- 2018
- Programme:
- Somerville College, University of Oxford
+ Travel Grant (Somerville College)
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- Grant:
- Travel Grant - 2014
- Programme:
- Somerville College, University of Oxford
+ Christiane Howey Raising Scholar Award
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- Grant:
- Christiane Howey Raising Scholar Award- 2016
- Programme:
- Microwave Telemetry Inc. USA
+ Raptor Research & Conservation Foundation, Mumbai
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- Grant:
- Black Kite Project (Phase II, III, IV and V) 2014 - 2019
- Programme:
- Raptor Research & Conservation Foundation, Mumbai
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2043605
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- Deposit date:
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2022-02-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Nishant Kumar
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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