Yves Kayser

Department: Species

Contact: e-mail | Ph. +33 (0)4 90 97 29 51

Joined our team: June 1989

Research interests and expertise

• Bird population dynamics
• Individual monitoring of marked birds
• Ringing and marking
• Bird dispersal and migration
• Bird diets

Projects

• Glossy Ibis population dynamics in the Camargue
• Slender-billed Gull population dynamics in the Camargue
• Eurasian Spoonbill population dynamics in the Camargue
• Monitoring of tree-nesting and palustrine herons
• Monitoring of Collared Pratincole nesting
• Water bird censuses on the EMSC (ponds and marshes of the former Camargue saltworks site)
• Censuses of common cranes that winter in the Camargue
• Education on how to ring passerines and waterbirds

Publications

Find below the most recent publications of Yves Kayser, or see the full list on the Tour du Valat’s documentary web portal:

• The Settlement of Glossy Ibis in France
  de Jocelyn Champagnon, Yves Kayser, Jérémiah Petit, Loïc Marion, Sebastien Reeber, Thomas Blanchon, Samuel Hilaire, Irene Badone, Pierre Crouzier, Regis Purenne, et al. In SIS Conservation, 1 (December, 2019), 50-55 En ligne : storkibisspoonbill.org[...] The Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus was very rarely breeding in France until its settlement ... read more
• Le Grand-duc d’Europe (Bubo bubo) prédateur du flamant rose (Phoenicopterus roseus) en Camargue (France) et indications sur le régime alimentaire
  de Yves Kayser, Antoine Arnaud, Arnaud Béchet In Nos Oiseaux, 66:3 (Septembre, 2019) ... read more
• Offspring Microbiomes Differ Across Breeding Sites in a Panmictic Species
  de Mark Alan Frank Gillingham, Arnaud Béchet, Frank Cézilly, Kerstin Wilhelm, Manuel Rendón-Martos, Fabrizio Borghesi, Sergio Nissardi, Nicola Baccetti, Hichem Azafzaf, Sebastian Menke, et al. In Frontiers in Microbiology, 10 (2019-2-6), 35 En ligne : www.frontiersin.org[...] High dispersal rates are known to homogenize host’s population genetic structure in ... read more
• Research studies on herons in the Camargue (Southern France)
  de Jocelyn Champagnon, Jérémiah Petit, Yves Kayser In Journal of Heron Biology and Conservation, 3:5 (2018), 13-14 En ligne : www.heronconservation.org[...] ... read more
• L’hivernage de la Grue cendrée Grus grus en Camargue : historique et statut récent
  de Yves Kayser, Michel Gauthier-Clerc, Thomas Blanchon, Philippe Vandewalle, Silke Befeld, Jérémiah Petit, Rémi Tiné, Amine Flitti, Jocelyn Champagnon In Ornithos, 25:1 (2018), 4-13 The Common Crane was a rare wintering bird in The Camargue until the late 1990s and early 2000s. From the winter of 2003- 2004, ... read more
• Trois spatules blanches Platalea leucorodia nées en Camargue (Bouches-du-Rhône) contrôlées en hivernage au Soudan du Sud
  de Thomas Blanchon, Jocelyn Champagnon, Yves Kayser, Lina López-Ricaurte, Paul Isenmann In Alauda, 85:3 (oct 2017), 231-233 ... read more
• Les oiseaux rares en France en 2015
  de Yves Kayser, S. Reeber In Ornithos, 23:6 (dec. 2016), 300-329 Ce 33e rapport du Comité d’Homologation National couvre l’année 2015.L’année 2015 a été plutôt contrastée, plutôt médiocre sur le plan des limicoles néarctiques et des passereaux sibériens à l’automne, elle fournit néanmoins trois nouvelles espèces à la ... read more
• Hierarchical habitat selection by Eurasian Pygmy Owls Glaucidium passerinum in old-growth forests of the southern French Prealps
  de Luc Barbaro, Sébastien Blache, Gilles Trochard, Cindie Arlaud, Nathalie de Lacoste, Yves Kayser In Journal of Ornithology, 157:1 (January 2016), 333-342 En ligne : link.springer.com[...] Maintaining or restoring old-growth stand structures in mountain forests, including deadwood and snags provided by natural disturbances, is considered critical for the ... read more
• Première mention d’un engoulevent à collier roux Caprimulgus ruficollis en France pour le XX° siècle (1998)
  de O. Badan, H. Kowalski, Yves Kayser 1998 ... read more
• Detection probability of nests of Squacco Herons in southern France (2004)
  de C. Barbraud, Yves Kayser, Damien Cohez, Michel Gauthier-Clerc, H. Hafner 2004 ... read more