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dc.contributor.authorNachuha, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorByaruhanga, Achilles
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-04T07:05:47Z
dc.date.available2017-05-04T07:05:47Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationNachuha, S and Byaruhanga, A (2009) First record of the Wattled Crane Grus carunculatus in Uganda. Scopus. Vol.29 pp.21–22en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12309/135
dc.description.abstractOn the afternoon of Saturday 2 May 2009, SNK had accompanied students to Kibimba rice scheme, eastern Uganda, for fieldwork when she observed one individual Wattled Crane Grus carunculatus among 30 individual Grey Crowned Cranes Balearica regulorum. Kibimba rice scheme located in Bugiri District is one of the commercial rice-growing areas in Uganda. These birds were recorded in one of the paddocks that had been freshly harvested, a habitat most preferred by cranes in rice fields (Nachuha 2006). On sighting the bird, contact was quickly made with AB (Executive Director of NatureUganda, the BirdLife partner in Uganda) to crosscheck the sighting. On Sunday 3 May 2009 both authors travelled back to Kibimba and confirmed this record. During the second visit, the bird was still feeding among a group of 60 Grey Crowned Cranes. It was occasionally aggressive, probably indicating that it was a new arrival to the area. When we approached it would fly together with other cranes over short distances.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSCOPUSen_US
dc.subjectWattled Crane Grus carunculatusen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.subjectCraneen_US
dc.titleFirst record of the Wattled Crane Grus carunculatus in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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