Sharpe's Longclaw (Macronyx sharpei) - BirdLife species factsheet

Sharpe's Longclaw Macronyx sharpei

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References

Anon. 2012. Kenyan Grasslands Appeal. Available at: http://www.worldlandtrust.org/projects/kenya. (Accessed: 22/3/2012).

Borghesio, L.; Muchane, M.; Ndang’ang’a, K.; Njoroge, P. 2013. Is Sharpe’s Longclaw Macronyx sharpei a fire-dependent species in Kenya’s Altimontane zone? Bull. Afr. Bird Club 20: 149-155.

Keith, S.; Urban, E. K.; Fry, C. H. 1992. The birds of Africa vol. IV. Academic Press, London.

Kimani, D.; Wamiti, W.; Ndang'ang'a, K.; Gitogo, J. 2015. Survey of Sharpe's Longclaw Macronyx sharpei in the northern sector of Mt. Kenya: Moorland and Timau Grasslands, Meru County. Field report to NABU, BirdLife International Germany.

Lens, L.; Bennun, L. A.; Duchateau, L. 2001. Landscape variables affect the density of Sharpe's Longclaw Macronyx sharpei, a montane grassland specialist. Ibis 143: 674-676.

Lens, L.; Duchateau, L.; Bennun, L. 1996. How grassland fragmentation and change in land-use affect Sharpe's Longclaw Macronyx sharpei, a Kenyan highland endemic. Ninth Pan-African Ornithological Congress: programme and book of abstracts, pp. 57. Ghana Wildlife Society, Accra.

Lens, L.; Muchai, M.; Bennun, L.; Duchateau, L. 2000. How grassland fragmentation and change in land-use affect Sharpe's Longclaw, Macronyx sharpei, a Kenya highland endemic. Ostrich 71: 300-303.

Moores, C. 2009. Friends of Kinangop Plateau, Sharpe’s Longclaw, and the Kinangop Grasslands. Available at: http://www.talking-naturally.co.uk/fokp/. (Accessed: 22/3/2012).

Muchai, M. 1998. Some aspects of the conservation biology of Sharpe's Longclaw (Macronyx sharpei, Jackson 1904) - a Kenya grassland endemic bird. Thesis. MSc, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.

Muchai, M.; Bennun, L.; Lens, L.; Rayment, M.; Pisano, G. 2002. Land-use and the conservation of Sharpe's Longclaw Macronyx sharpei in central Kenya. Bird Conservation International 12: 107-121.

Muchai, M.; Lens, L.; Bennun, L. 2002. Habitat selection and conservation of Sharpe's Longclaw (Macronyx sharpei), a threatened Kenyan grassland endemic. Biological Conservation 105: 271-277.

Ndang'ang'a, P. K.; du Plessis, M. A.; Ryan, P. G.; Bennun, L. A. 2002. Grassland decline in Kinangop Plateau, Kenya: implications for conservation of Sharpe's longclaw (Macronyx sharpei). Biological Conservation 107: 341-350.

Ngari, S. 2004. Securing a future for Sharpe's Longclaw. Nature East Africa 34: 15-17.

Rayment, M.; Pisano, G. 1999. Agricultural land use in the Kinangop plateau and Lake Naivasha, Kenya.

Şekercioğlu, Ç.; Primack, R. B.; Wormworth, J. 2012. The effects of climate change on tropical birds. Biol. Conserv. 148: 1-18.

Wamiti, W.; Malaki, P.; Mwangi, A. 2007. Survey of globally-threatened birds at Lake Ol Bolossat Grasslands, central Kenya.

Zimmerman, D. A.; Turner, D. A.; Pearson, D. J. 1996. Birds of Kenya and northern Tanzania. Helm, London.

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Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 22/11/2024.