The aim of the study was to map the repertoire of vocalization of four wild-caught grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus), two males and two females. Data were collected during nine days from June to November 2008 by recording of vocalization in standardized conditions. Recorded sounds (3 052) were categorized according to their characteristics using both visual inspection of spectrograms and listening. We found 70 different call types, which were combined into 18 bigger groups. We found no subject to use the whole repertoire. Important differences were found both between individuals and between males and females. almost all call types were used throuthout the whole period of recording. Model spectrograms of all call types are shown. Key words: grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus, repertoire, vocalization

Human speech is considered to be unique means of communication. The beginnings of human vocalization, which develops into the speech, however, have some patterns or principles which can also be found in animal communication. It has been discovered that there are similarities between humans and animals in terms of social organization, neural control, cognition and function of vocal signals. Moreover, it seems that birds, parrots specifically, have closer parallels with humans in these respects than with other primates. Vocal ontogeny was, however, at least in parrots, investigated only marginally. Therefore it has become the subject of this study. African grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) show a wide range of cognitive abilities and are thus suitable species for comparison with humans. The aim of this study was to map the early vocal development of African grey parrots until age of 11 weeks. Then it was possible to compare it theoretically with the early vocal development of children. The repertoire was mapped using video recordings of four fledglings of feral African grey parrots, which are in possession of FHS UK Prague. The recordings were analysed acoustically and visually with audio software Sound Forge Pro 11 and Sound Forge Audio Studio 10. After identifying the repertoire we used stage...

International trade in exotic pets is an important and increasing driver of biodiversity loss. The African grey parrot has been noted as one of man's friendliest pets with popularity attributed to its intelligence, cognitive and communicative abilities. Worldwide, the African Grey Parrot is the third most commonly traded wild bird species. The subject of this thesis is an evaluation of international trade in the gray parrot (\kur{Psittacus erithacus}), covered by CITES convention to Appendix II, between European Union and third countries, according CITES Trade Database and EC Annual Report 2004 in 1994-2013. The trade has been divided into export and import, by the two existing subspecies, and within these categories were evaluated main countries of export and import, source and purpose of the trade. It was found, that the trend of import of live specimens to EU during the period 1994-2005 was increasing, although the trend between 2006-2013 was declining. The trend of export of live specimens was slightly increasing for the period 1994-2001 and 2006-2013.

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The ability to communicate referentially has been historically viewed as being uniquelly human. However, with the increasing amount of studies discussing the communicative faculty of animals in the context of the evolution of human language, there is now growing evidence that this ability is present in many animal species, too. Although we know a lot about mimetic abilities of domesticated African grey parrots' (Psittacus erithacus) and their competence to use human words in a referential way, we know very little about the elements of referentiality in their natural vocalization. Our goal in this work was to find, whether and in which context is functionally referential vocalization in this species of birds present. We were determining its presence by the experiment, in which we have exposed four captured African grey parrot, in the ownership of FHS UK Prague, to stimuli that in other animal species usually elicit functionally referential vocalization: predators and prefered type of food. We analysed the behaviour and vocalizations of the tested birds by analytic softwares Interact, respectively Soundforge 0.8. We find out, that despite the fact that birds reaponded to our experimental objects appropriatelly (i.e. "predators" caused more fear and the like), they give the major amout of...

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Dissertacao_EfeitoCaracteristicasAmbientais.pdf: 1424534 bytes, checksum: 90b0a9ccb4539c1936ab56dfa68d26b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Fundação Gordon e Betty Moore / O estuário de Curuçá é parte de uma Unidade de Conservação (RESEX Mãe Grande de Curuçá) desde 2002 e tem como principais cursos d’agua o Rio Curuçá e do Furo Muriá. O presente estudo objetivou analisar o efeito de características ambientais no uso dos canais-de-maré pelas espécies bentófagas Colomesus psittacus, Sciades herzbergii e Genyatremus luteus. A análise envolveu a relação de dados ambientais (salinidade, área de inundação e cobertura arbórea) com dados bióticos das três espécies estudadas (densidade, biomassa, intensidade alimentar e distribuição dos comprimentos totais). A primeira expedição ocorreu em julho de 2008 a fim de coletar a ictiofauna e a segunda em outubro de 2008 para realizar o inventário arbóreo, sendo que cada campanha teve a duração de três dias. Por todo o estuário de Curuçá, mais precisamente, ao longo do Rio Curuçá e do Furo Muriá, foram distribuídos um total de seis sítios de coleta, onde no interior de cada sítio foram amostrados dois canais-de-maré, perfazendo um total de doze canais-de-maré amostrados. As espécies C. psittacus, S. herzbergii e G. luteus estiveram entre as cinco mais abundantes e ocorreram em todos os sítios, com exceção do S. herzbergii, o qual foi capturado somente em cinco dos seis sítios. As três espécies estudadas apresentaram, entre os sítios, diferenças altamente significativas para as variações de suas médias de densidade, biomassa, índice de plenitude e comprimento total, com exceção de G. luteus que não apresentou diferenças estatísticas em suas médias de comprimento total. Todas as variações das médias das características ambientais referentes à cobertura arbórea (densidade, altura e diâmetro), assim como, a área de inundação dos canais-de-maré apresentaram significativas diferenças entre os sítios. Neste trabalho foi possível verificar: a influência do gradiente de salinidade na distribuição das espécies estudadas no interior do estuário; as relações espaciais entre a área de inundação e disponibilidade de recurso alimentar, onde os canais com maior área inundada mostraram-se mais favoráveis ao forrageio da ictiofauna bentófaga; que provavelmente, existe um melhor rendimento alimentar quando as espécies bentófagas frequentam os canais-de-maré cercados por vegetação desenvolvida. / The Curuçá estuary is part of a Conservation Unit (RESEX Great Mother of Curuçá) since 2002 and has as main water courses the Curuçá River and Muriá bore. This study aimed to analyze the effect of environmental characteristics in the use of the creek on the benthophagous species Colomesus psittacus, Sciades herzbergii and Genyatremus luteus. The analysis involved the relationship of environmental data (salinity, submergence area and tree cover) and biotic data from the three species studied (density, biomass, feeding intensity and distribution of total length). The first expedition took place in July 2008 to collect the fish fauna and the second in October 2008 to conduct the tree inventory, and each campaign lasted for three days. For all the estuary of Curuçá, more precisely, along the Curuçá River and Muriá bore were allotted a total of six study sites, where within each site were sampled two creeks, making a total of twelve creeks sampled. The species C. psittacus, S. herzbergii and G. luteus were among the five most abundant and occurred in all sites, except for S. herzbergii, which was captured only in five of the six sites. The three species showed, among sites, highly significant differences for changes in their average density, biomass, index of fullness and length, except for G. luteus which did not show statistical differences in their average total length. All variations of the average environmental characteristics related to tree cover (density, height and diameter), as well as, the area of flood creek showed significant differences between sites. This study has showed: the influence of salinity gradient in the distribution of species within the estuary; spatial relations between the flooded area and availability of food resources, where the creek with larger flooded area were more conducive to forage fish fauna benthophagous; likely, there is a better yield when feeding species benthophagous occurs in creek surrounded by vegetation developed.