Alexander Mischenko, Anthony David Fox, Saulius Švažas, Olga Sukhanova, Alexandre Czajkowski, Sergey Kharitonov, Yuri Lokhman, Oleg Ostrovsky, Daiva Vaitkuvienė. 2020: Recent changes in breeding abundance and distribution of the Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) in its eastern range. Avian Research, 11(1): 23. DOI: 10.1186/s40657-020-00209-6
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Alexander Mischenko, Anthony David Fox, Saulius Švažas, Olga Sukhanova, Alexandre Czajkowski, Sergey Kharitonov, Yuri Lokhman, Oleg Ostrovsky, Daiva Vaitkuvienė. 2020: Recent changes in breeding abundance and distribution of the Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) in its eastern range. Avian Research, 11(1): 23. DOI: 10.1186/s40657-020-00209-6
Alexander Mischenko, Anthony David Fox, Saulius Švažas, Olga Sukhanova, Alexandre Czajkowski, Sergey Kharitonov, Yuri Lokhman, Oleg Ostrovsky, Daiva Vaitkuvienė. 2020: Recent changes in breeding abundance and distribution of the Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) in its eastern range. Avian Research, 11(1): 23. DOI: 10.1186/s40657-020-00209-6
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Alexander Mischenko, Anthony David Fox, Saulius Švažas, Olga Sukhanova, Alexandre Czajkowski, Sergey Kharitonov, Yuri Lokhman, Oleg Ostrovsky, Daiva Vaitkuvienė. 2020: Recent changes in breeding abundance and distribution of the Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) in its eastern range. Avian Research, 11(1): 23. DOI: 10.1186/s40657-020-00209-6
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy Street 33, Moscow 117071, Russia
2.
Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Grenåvej 14, Kalø, 8410 Rønde, Denmark
3.
Nature Research Centre, Akademijos 2, 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania
4.
Russian Society for Bird Conservation and Study, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street 6, 125009 Moscow, Russia
5.
European Institute for the Management of Wild Birds and Their Habitats, 59 rue AmpȨre, 75017 Paris, France
6.
Kuban Scientific-Research Centre, Wildlife of the Caucasus, Teplichnaya Street 58-18, Krasnodar 350087, Russia
7.
Scientific Practical Centre of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Biological Resources, Akademicheskaya Street 27, 220072 Minsk, Belarus
Funds:
the European Institute for the Management of Wild Birds and their Habitats (France), with support of the French Ministry for Ecological and Inclusive Transition and the French National Hunting Federation
The Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) (hereafter Pochard), a widespread and common freshwater diving duck in the Palearctic, was reclassified in 2015 from Least Concern to Vulnerable IUCN status based on rapid declines throughout its range. Analysis of its status, distribution and the potential causes for the decline in Europe has been undertaken, but there has never been a review of its status in the major part of its breeding range across Russia to the Pacific coast.
Methods
We reviewed the scientific literature and unpublished reports, and canvassed expert opinion throughout Russia to assess available knowledge about changes in the species distribution and abundance since the 1980s.
Results
While accepting available information may not be representative throughout the entire eastern range of the species, the review found marked declines in Pochard breeding abundance in the last two decades throughout European Russia. Pochard have also declined throughout Siberia. Declines throughout the steppe region seemed related to local drought severity in recent years, necessitating further research to confirm this climate link at larger spatial scales. Declines in the forest and forest-steppe regions appeared related to the major abandonment of fish farms in western Russia that had formerly provided habitat for breeding Pochard. However, hyper-eutrophication of shallow eutrophic lakes, cessation of grazing and haymaking in floodplain systems necessary to maintain suitable nesting habitat and disappearance of colonies of the Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) in a number of wetlands were also implicated. Increasing invasive alien predator species (e.g. American Mink Neovison vison and Raccoon Dog Nyctereutes procyonoides) and increasing spring hunting were also thought to contribute to declines. Reports of expansion in numbers and range only came from small numbers occurring in the Russian Far East, including on the border with China and the long-established isolated population on Kamchatka Peninsula.
Conclusions
Widespread declines throughout the eastern breeding range of the Pochard give continued cause for concern. Although we could address all the potential causal factors identified above by management interventions, we urgently need better information relating to key factors affecting site-specific Pochard breeding success and abundance, to be able to implement effective actions to restore the species to more favourable conservation status throughout its breeding range.
Currently, the dynamics and structure of many bird communities are changing due to the global warming and changes in the land use and management. Many studies dealing with avian communities focus on comparisons between habitat types (Sisk et al. 1997; Paquet et al. 2006; Reis et al. 2012; Santos et al. 2014), between seasons through a given annual cycle (Purroy 1975; Herrera 1980; Arizaga et al. 2009b; 2010) or before and after a given disturbance or management in a habitat (Barlow et al. 2002; Brotons et al. 2005). However, studies addressing how and why this structure varies temporally based on long-term analyses, are few (Sebastian-Gonzalez et al. 2010). Such long-term analyses are called to contribute to understand which factors shape variation at community level under global change contexts.
The Mediterranean region is an area of capital importance for the conservation of many migratory bird populations of northern Europe that either pass over southern Europe in the way to their wintering areas in Africa or choose the Mediterranean as their winter destination (Tellería et al. 1999). Evidence supports the idea that the communities of birds that spend the winter in the Mediterranean region are changing due to climate warming (Morganti and Pulido 2012). In particular, an increasing proportion of birds that would hypothetically overwinter in tropical Africa now stay all the winter in the southern part of the Mediterranean (Morganti and Pulido 2012); at the same time, many species that used to overwinter in the Mediterranean are moving their wintering range to higher latitudes and altitudes (Martín et al. 2014; Tellería et al. 2016; Podhrázský et al. 2017; Pavón-Jordán et al. 2019). Additionally, changes in the land use and management, e.g. under the European Common Agricultural Policy framework, can have a significant impact on bird populations (Donald et al. 2001; Bani et al. 2009), which might also have an effect at the assemblage level.
The Ebro Valley constitutes one of the chief wintering areas for several passerine species in Iberia (Tellería 1988). The reed beds spread across this Valley and concentrate huge numbers of birds that use them to roost, while the surrounding agricultural areas serve as main foraging habitats (Senar and Borras 2004). Reed Buntings (Emberiza schoeniclus) constitute a paradigmatic case of such agricultural-associated birds (Cramp and Perrins 1994). These reed beds, therefore, can be a good monitoring unit to test for the occurrence of temporal variations in bird communities, and to deepen into the factors driving the variation.
The aims of this work are (1) to quantify how variable a non-breeding passerine bird community associated to a reed bed area in the Ebro Valley is, and, (2) to test for the effect of weather on possible annual fluctuations in species' proportions at a regional/local scale. We used for that ringing data collected over a 12-year period.
Methods
Study area and data collection
This study was carried out at the Badina Escudera lagoon (42.27° N, 01.70° W, 281 m above sea level), situated in Navarra, Ebro Valley, northern Iberia. The lagoon occupies ca. 160 ha, and it has been declared as a Natura 2000 site (SPA ES2200039, Badina Escudera).
During the winter season (from October to March) starting in October of 2003 to 2014 (12 years), ringing was carried out on a minimum of 15-days interval basis (i.e., twice a month), but due to different causes (mainly bad weather and logistics) this schedule was not always possible to be executed. Mist nets were open during a period of 2 h before dusk each sampling day. Target species were those that come from northern Europe to overwinter in Spain. The scheme was designed to sample the entire period of presence of these wintering birds in Spain, from passage/arrival in autumn to departure to breeding quarters in late-winter or spring (Tellería 1988; Tellería et al. 1999; Arizaga et al. 2011). All captured birds were ringed, measured, and their age and sex determined (Svensson 1996), though these data were not used in this work.
Meteorological data were collected from the Caparroso meteorological station, located at just 10 km from Badina Escudera (source: AEMET). The data obtained from this station were: (1) monthly average of the daily means and minimum temperatures; (2) monthly accumulated precipitation.
Data handling and statistics
We considered for the analyses three temporal categories, that fitted with the phenological status of short-distance migrants at Badina (Arizaga et al. 2009b): Oct-Nov (passage/arrival of winter visitors), Dec-Jan (winter period), Feb-Mar (departure to breeding quarters/passage). Within each period and year only the first capture event of each individual bird was considered to remove pseudo-replicates.
First, we examined the structure of the bird community for each period, in order to identify the dominant species. Only those accounting for > 10% of the captures were considered to model trends thereafter. With that goal, we calculated the proportion of captures per species and period. After that, we conducted General Linear Models (GLM) with the proportion of captures as an object variable and the year, temperature and/or precipitation as covariates. For the meteorological variables we calculated the mean values for each period (i.e., Oct-Nov, Dec-Jan or Feb-Mar). For each period, we conducted a global (saturated) additive model, which was then submitted to a model selection procedure, for which the 'dredge' function of the package 'MuMIn' for R was used (Barton 2014; R Core Team 2014). Models differing in less than 2 Akaike values were considered to fit to the data equally well (Burnham and Anderson 1998). We also conducted GLM to analyse whether the standardized number of captures (captures/100 linear meters of mist nets) of those species which had major weight in the community had significant temporal trends.
Using this same filtered data set, we conducted a Hierarchical Analysis of Clusters in order to see the relationship among different years using the Morisita-Horn similarity index, which is very responsive to dominant taxa (Magurran and McGill 2011). This index was calculated as [2×Ʃ(xiyi)]/[[(Ʃxi2
/X2)+(Ʃyi2
/Y2)]×XY], where xi is the number of times a given species i is found in sample X, yi is the number of times a given species i is found in sample Y, and X and Y are the number of species at samples X and Y, respectively. The decision to select this index was based on our aim to quantify the role of inter-annual variations in the relative abundance of the most common species on bird assemblage structure. Clusters were built using the UPGMA method and the PAST software (Hammer et al. 2001).
Finally, we also assessed whether diversity indices varied annually and may also co-vary with weather-related variables. We also used the PAST software in order to calculate index of diversity (we used here the Shannon index, H). The H index is calculated as -Σ(pi×ln(pi)), where pi was the proportion of captures of each species. Again, in this case we considered each individual bird only once per period and year. Using a bootstrapping approach, a 95% confidence interval associated to the yearly mean values was obtained and, therefore, it can be stated that overlapping confidence intervals reveal no (statistical) differences among years. Additionally, we conducted linear models in order to test for the effect of weather on diversity estimates. We used for that the program R (R Core Team 2014).
Results
In all of the three periods here studied, the community was dominated by Reed Buntings (with percentages of captures ranging between 54% and 68%; Fig. 1). Except the Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) in late winter, accounting for the 13.5% of captures, we found no other species that reached the 10% threshold of captures (Fig. 1). In winter (period Dec-Jan), the proportion of captures of trans-Saharan species ranged between zero to 0.5% (mean±SD: 0.1±0.2%; Table 1). These species were only present in three out of the eleven sampled winters (2006, 2008, 2012; Table 1), corresponding to three individual birds: a Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta) in 2006 and 2008 (captures in 03 Dec 2006 and 28 Jan 2008), and a Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) in 2012 (06 Dec 2012).
Figure
1.
Percentage of captures of the ten most abundant passerines captured with mist nets at Badina de Escudera, from 2003 to 2014 (a 12-year period; except for the period Dec‒Jan, when no sampling was carried out in 2014). Within each period and year, each individual bird has been considered only once. Bars show the 95% confidence interval
Table
1.
Tran-Saharan passerines captured during the winter period (Dec‒Jan) in Badina de Escudera
Winter
P
T
T%
2003
290
0
0
2004
538
0
0
2005
585
0
0
2006
572
1
0.2
2007
331
0
0
2008
191
1
0.5
2009
241
0
0
2010
122
0
0
2011
205
0
0
2012
195
1
0.5
2013
52
0
0
The winter of 2003 corresponds to the one starting in December of 2003, and soon P, number of captures of pre-Saharan passerines; T, number of captures of transSaharan passerines; T%, percentage of captures of trans-Saharan passerines
Overall, the proportion of Reed Buntings in any of the three temporal units considered tended to decrease along the study period (Fig. 2), at a mean rate of ca. -4%/year (so a decrease of ca. 50% in 12 years).
Figure
2.
Proportion of Reed Buntings captured in a passerines' assemblage at the reed bed of Badina Escudera (Navarra), during a period of 12 years (11 for the Dec‒Jan period)
Clustering analyses revealed, however, that, within each period, the structure of the assemblage was rather uniform across time, with overlaps of > 70% (often > 90%) among years (Fig. 3). An exception to this pattern, however, arose in 2014, both during the period Oct-Nov and Feb-Mar (but not in mid-winter, i.e. period Dec-Jan). In 2014, the assemblage had a different structure, differing in > 50% in relation to the assemblages detected in previous years. A detailed look at this year, as compared to the mean values obtained up to then (2003‒2013), revealed that during the period Oct-Nov in 2014 we captured a higher proportion of Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) and Bluethroats (Luscinia svecica) and less Reed Buntings; during the period Feb-Mar in 2014, we captured a proportionally higher number of Green Finches (Chloris chloris) and Bearded Tits (Fig. 4). These results, however, could be biased by a decreasing sampling effort in 2014, when the lack of sampling in Feb and the existence of just one sampling day in Nov resulted in the loss of good periods of passage of Reed Buntings, hence their abundance might be under-represented (Additional file 1: Table S1).
Figure
3.
Hierarchical clustering approach used to see the assemblage annual overlap based on the Morisita index of similarity (1=full overlap; 0=zero overlap)
Figure
4.
Relative abundance of the ten most captured passerines at Badina Escudera during the period 2003‒2013 (mean±95% confidence interval) as compared to 2014
Models showed that the proportion of Reed Buntings has declined dramatically from 2003 to 2014, both during the period Oct-Nov and Dec-Jan (i.e., during the autumn migration period and the wintering) (Table 2). None of the models that best fitted the data included weather effects (Additional file 1: Table S2) on Reed Buntings' proportion. If we remove 2014 for the reason shown above, we obtain results very similar to those shown in Table 2 (new table not included), especially for the negative effect of year on the proportion of captures of Reed Buntings. Furthermore, we also detected that the standardized number of captures of Reed Buntings tended to decrease along the study period, with this trend being significant for the Dec-Jan period (Fig. 5; slopes' significance: Oct-Nov, t=0.157, P=0.875; Dec-Jan, t=2.904, P=0.005; Feb-Mar, t=0.379, P=0.706).
Table
2.
Best-ranked models used to test for the effect of local meteorological conditions on the proportion of captures of Reed Buntings
Models
AICc
ΔAICc
AICc weight
Period: Oct–Nov.
1. Year
102.5
0.0
0.596
2. Year + Tmean
105.7
3.2
0.122
Global
119.6
17.1
0.000
Period: Dec–Jan.
1. Year
90.2
0.0
0.724
2. Year + Prec
93.9
6.7
0.115
Global
109.4
19.2
0.000
Period: Feb–Mar.
1. Null
111.0
0.0
0.293
2. Year
111.5
0.5
0.223
3. Tmin
111.6
0.6
0.210
Global
128.2
17.2
0.000
Within each period, we show the list of models up to the first one with a ΔAICc > 2, and the global (saturated) model Year, linear effect of year; Tmean, mean temperature; Tmin, minimum temperature; Prec, precipitation; Null; null model with a constant intercept; AICc, small-sample size corrected Akaike values; ΔAICc, difference in relation to the Akaike value of the first model
The diversity index differed markedly among years (Fig. 6). Overall, we detected a significant, positive trend for the first period (Oct-Nov: adjusted R2=0.46, P=0.008), a marginal trend for the Dec-Jan period (R2=0.28, P=0.054), and a non-significant trend for the third period (Feb-Mar: R2=0.10, P=0.920).
The structure of a wintering passerine community in Badina Escudera, one of the main wetlands from Navarra (Ebro Valley) changed during the period of 12 years in which the study was done. Though, overall, the assemblage did not vary strongly among years (most similarity values were > 0.8; Fig. 3), we still found a significant linear effect of year in the proportion of captures of Reed Buntings, i.e., the dominant species detected in our passerine community. The analyses of avian communities often rely on data sets where long-term trends are rarely targeted. Our study is hence one of the few addressing such a question in a passerine community in Spain (Peiró 2018).
The increasing loss of weight of Reed Buntings in the community was likely due to a progressive decrease in the abundance of this species. Thus, in the mid-winter period, we passed from a mean number of 33.4 captures/100 linear meters of mist nets during the winter of 2003 to 12.4 captures/100 linear meters in 2014. The trend for the whole country remains uncertain (SEO/BirdLife 2012), but in some regions like Cataluña a decrease of 5% is estimated (Herrando et al. 2011). In Navarra, this decrease in the abundance may be due to several reasons: (1) habitat changes that may promote the spread and/or disappearance of Reed Buntings across/from the region, and (2) population declines. Though Badina and the nearby surrounding cropland did not suffer a remarkable change during the period in which the study was carried out (J. Arizaga obs. per.), we must notice habitat changes at a regional scale. The area occupied by the wet cultivations in the region has passed from < 76, 000 ha in 2002 to 84, 000 in 2010 (+10.5%), a trend that still is increasing (source: Government of Navarra). In parallel to this process, new ponds and ditches were created, and new reed beds (with potential to host Reed Buntings' roosts) were formed, which overall might have contributed to the dispersal of the species and reduction of Reed Bunting numbers in the old, 'traditional' roosts existing in wetlands such as Badina Escudera. A decrease of Reed Buntings arriving to overwinter in Spain is also plausible. This may be shaped by two processes: the fact that the species may overwinter in regions further to the north, which may be associated with the climate warming (Golawski and Kasprzykowski 2010; Martín et al. 2014; Pavón-Jordán et al. 2019; Wuczyński and Wuczyński 2019), and/or the consequence of real population declines. Following this last idea, it is seen that the Reed Bunting is in decline in Europe (Staneva and Burfield 2017), as is also declining in some of origin areas of birds that overwinter in Spain (Villarán 1999), more particularly in Badina Escudera (Arizaga et al. 2009b), such as France (Issa and Muller 2015) or Germany (Gedeon et al. 2015). And additional hypothesis associated with the decreasing of numbers of Reed Buntings in the area may be due to competition with other species which could be benefited by the climate warming and/or other processes of environmental change.
Weather is one of the capital factors shaping the spatio-temporal geographic distribution of bird populations (Elkins 1983; Cresswell 2014; Haest et al. 2018, 2019). However, the structure and diversity of passerine community in Badina Escudera was not influenced by meteorological conditions at a local scale. In another study carried out in a wetland in central Spain, researchers did not find that the inter-annual survival of Reed Buntings was affected by local temperature hence suggesting a lack of (significant) effect of winter temperature on this species' demography at a local level (Mezquida and Villarán 2006). However, winter severity in Spain correlated with apparent annual survival of Reed Buntings breeding in Germany (Salewski et al. 2013), hence it seems that meteorological conditions during the winter have an impact on Reed Buntings' demography. If the weather affects the geographic distribution of Reed Buntings in winter, it is likely that such distribution is modulated by climatic conditions operating at larger scales.
The presence of trans-Saharan passerines in winter was totally marginal through the entire study period (mean, 0.1%). Such results suggest that the presence of these long-distance migrants in winter was still low in the studied wetland, as it seems to be also the case in other nearby sites within the region (Arizaga et al. 2009a; Mazuelas et al. 2018). This contrasts with the scenario already existing in southern Iberia, remarkably within the lowlands of the Guadalquivir Valley, where there is an increasingly high number of wintering trans-Saharan birds, both passerines and non-passerines (Morganti and Pulido 2012). Due to its geographic position in northern Iberia, the Ebro Valley is called to play a role as a sentinel region to document a potential geographical northward spread of trans-Saharan species in winter.
Conclusions
In conclusion, we detected that a non-breeding passerine bird community in a Mediterranean wetland in northern Spain varied during a period of 12 years. Reed Buntings were dominant, but their proportion and abundance tended to decrease across this period, especially if we focus on the mid-winter period. We did not find evidence supporting that local weather would have an impact on Reed Buntings' proportion. Ultimate causes underlying our findings may be related to both/either habitat changes and climate warming.
Additional file 1: Table S1. Number of sampling days, per month and year, at Badina Escudera. Table S2. Mean values of the mean and minimum temperature and accumulated precipitation (Tmean, Tmin, Prec, as in Table 2) at Badina de Escudera, during the three time units considered in this study.
Acknowledgements
C. Astrain, J. M. Vadillo, and three reviewers provided valuable comments that helped us during the writing process of this work.
Authors' contributions
Conception: JA, DA. Data collection: JA, DA, AC, XE, EF, IL, DM, AV. Data analysis: JA, DA, AC. Writing: JA. Revision of the work: DA, AC, XE, EF, IL, DM, AV. All co-authors have approved the submission and agreed both to be personally accountable for the author's own contributions and to ensure that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work, even ones in which the author was not personally involved, are appropriately investigated, resolved, and the resolution documented in the literature. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Availability of data and materials
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the Aranzadi Ringing Scheme but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of the Aranzadi Ringing Scheme.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
The Government of Navarra provided the licenses for bird ringing.
Consent for publication
Not applicable.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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Table
1.
Tran-Saharan passerines captured during the winter period (Dec‒Jan) in Badina de Escudera
Winter
P
T
T%
2003
290
0
0
2004
538
0
0
2005
585
0
0
2006
572
1
0.2
2007
331
0
0
2008
191
1
0.5
2009
241
0
0
2010
122
0
0
2011
205
0
0
2012
195
1
0.5
2013
52
0
0
The winter of 2003 corresponds to the one starting in December of 2003, and soon P, number of captures of pre-Saharan passerines; T, number of captures of transSaharan passerines; T%, percentage of captures of trans-Saharan passerines
Table
2.
Best-ranked models used to test for the effect of local meteorological conditions on the proportion of captures of Reed Buntings
Models
AICc
ΔAICc
AICc weight
Period: Oct–Nov.
1. Year
102.5
0.0
0.596
2. Year + Tmean
105.7
3.2
0.122
Global
119.6
17.1
0.000
Period: Dec–Jan.
1. Year
90.2
0.0
0.724
2. Year + Prec
93.9
6.7
0.115
Global
109.4
19.2
0.000
Period: Feb–Mar.
1. Null
111.0
0.0
0.293
2. Year
111.5
0.5
0.223
3. Tmin
111.6
0.6
0.210
Global
128.2
17.2
0.000
Within each period, we show the list of models up to the first one with a ΔAICc > 2, and the global (saturated) model Year, linear effect of year; Tmean, mean temperature; Tmin, minimum temperature; Prec, precipitation; Null; null model with a constant intercept; AICc, small-sample size corrected Akaike values; ΔAICc, difference in relation to the Akaike value of the first model
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