@article {Diawara:2007:0030-6525:469,
title = "Nouvelles donn{\’e}es sur la reproduction et l'hivernage des flamants roses en Mauritanie et confirmation d'{\’e}changes avec les populations m{\’e}diterran{\’e}ennes",
journal = "Ostrich - Journal of African Ornithology",
parent_itemid = "infobike://tandf/ostrich",
publishercode ="tandf",
year = "2007",
volume = "78",
number = "2",
publication date ="2007-06-01T00:00:00",
pages = "469-474",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0030-6525",
eissn = "1727-947X",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/ostrich/2007/00000078/00000002/art00061",
doi = "doi:10.2989/OSTRICH.2007.78.2.56.136",
author = "Diawara, Y and Arnaud, A and Araujo, A and B{\’e}chet, A",
abstract = "The coastal wetlands of Mauritania consist of vast areas of flooded plains and tidal mudflats and are habitats of exceptional avifaunal richness. The Banc d'Arguin and the fresh and salt-water marshes of the delta of the Senegal River are especially known to be the principal wintering
sites of many waterbirds from the Western Palaearctic. These sub-Saharan coastal wetlands are also the breeding sites of many waterbirds of Afrotropical and Mediterranean distribution. The Greater Flamingo () is one of these species, often abundant on the Mauritanian
coast. A link between the population of Greater Flamingos breeding in Mauritania and that of the Mediterranean was however not established. In order to better characterise the current status and trends of the species, we monitored the population of Greater Flamingos in the coastal wetlands
in Mauritania in 2003/04. Here, we present the first results of this study put in perspective with the data forthis species collected over the 48 last years in Mauritania. In particular, the observation of two birds, born and ringed in the Mediterranean, feeding chicks on the Banc d'Arguin
provides the final proof of interchanges between the Mediterranean populations and those of Mauritania. We discuss the implications of these results for the conservation of this species over the whole of its distribution. ",
}