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A Comparison of Three Methods for Estimating Abundances of the Globally Endangered African Grey Parrot.

José L Tella, Iñigo Palacios-Martínez, Guillermo Blanco, Javier Juste, Pedro Romero-Vidal

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Article in Biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

José L TellaDepartment of Conservation Biology and Global Change, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), 41092 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3038-7424
Iñigo Palacios-MartínezDepartment of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), 28006 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0009-0007-3747-8314
Guillermo BlancoDepartment of Evolutionary Ecology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), 28006 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5742-4929
Javier JusteDepartment of Conservation Biology and Global Change, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), 41092 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1383-8462
Pedro Romero-VidalDepartment of Conservation Biology and Global Change, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), 41092 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0647-6953

Funding

Fundación Psittacus, 002/2024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obtaining reliable estimates of population sizes and their temporal trends is essential for assessing the conservation status and guiding the management of threatened species. Parrots (order Psittaciformes) are among the most diverse yet most threatened groups of birds worldwide, but information on their population sizes remains scarce. Their ecological traits and low densities complicate the application of widely used distance sampling methods for estimating population densities, which correct for declining detectability with increasing distance. Researchers have proposed simple encounter rates-the number of birds or groups detected per hour of observation during casual walks-as an alternative approach to address these limitations when estimating the abundance of rare species. Previous studies of the globally endangered African grey parrot (

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censusdistance sampling modelingencounter ratesEquatorial Guinealine transectsparrot abundancespoint countsPsittacus erithacus

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