2. Birds This chapter distribution, conservation breed across Project area.
reports on the population size, and breeding-seasons of high priority bird species that live and the 92 islands within the Red Sea
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The 14 focal species and their broad breeding seasonality were: • Winter breeders: osprey, caspian tern and redbilled tropicbird. • Spring breeders: brown booby, eurasian spoonbill, saunders’s tern. • Summer breeders: white-cheeked, lesser crested, great crested and bridled tern, crab plover, white-eyed and sooty gull. • Autumn breeder: sooty falcon. g.
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Figure 1. Study species: a. Saunder’s tern, b. Bridled tern (photo credit Jem Babbington), c. White-cheeked tern, d. White-eyed gull, e. Lesser crested tern, f. Sooty gull, g. Caspian tern, h. Red-billed tropicbird, i. Greater crested tern, j. Sooty falcon, k. Brown booby, l. Spoonbill, m. Crab plover
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