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- Title
New data on mortality, home range, and dispersal of red-legged partridges ( Alectoris rufa) released in a mountain range.
- Authors
Duarte, Jesús; Farfán, Miguel Ángel; Vargas, J. Mario
- Abstract
We tested the success, dispersal, and home range of 20 radio-tagged farm-reared red-legged partridges that were released into typical Mediterranean scrubland on a coastal mountain in southern Spain. Partridges were kept in two acclimatization pens separated by 1 km for 4 weeks. Mortality was 25% during the first 10 days, 51.9% at the end of the second month, and stopped by the 14th week after release. The overall survival rate was 20.6%. Mean dispersal distance was 832 m; home range (MPC 95%), 16.6 ha; and activity centers (Kernel 60%), 15.1 ha. Two released females paired with wild males and one of them successfully nested.
- Subjects
SPAIN; ALECTORIS; PARTRIDGES; HOME range (Animal geography); ANIMAL populations; BIOLOGICAL adaptation
- Publication
European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2011, Vol 57, Issue 3, p675
- ISSN
1612-4642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10344-010-0467-9