Distribution and conservation of the shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) in the southern Sudan
Abstract
The report deals with the distribution of the shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex) in wetlands in the southern Sudan. The shoebill is a highly specialised bird requiring resources which are limited and which are discontinuously distributed in time and space. The bird's habitat is affected by a variety of artificial factors which are contributing to increasingly widespread ecological degradation of the natural wetlands. The survival of the shoebill is threatened, and the declining status of the species merits international recognition and conservation attention.
- Publication:
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Biological Conservation
- Pub Date:
- 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0006-3207(78)90017-4
- Bibcode:
- 1978BCons..13...39G