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The desert at Zait Bay, Egypt: a bird migration bottleneck of global importance – ERRATUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2011

GUDRUN HILGERLOH
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Bird Conservation International , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 362 - 363
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Copyright © BirdLife International 2011

doi:10.1017/S0959270909008430. Bird Conservation International (2009) 19:338–352

The paper published by Hilgerloh (Reference Hilgerloh2009) proposed certain amendments to the boundaries of Gebel El Zeit (EG031), an Important Bird Area (IBA) in Egypt. These proposals were based on digital information supplied by the BirdLife International Secretariat during the preparation of the paper. However, subsequent correspondence with Sherif Baha El Din, who first proposed the IBA, has shown that the proposed amendments in fact coincide with his original conception of the site (Baha El Din Reference Baha El Din1999, Reference Baha El Din, Fishpool and Evans2001). However, digitisation of the IBA boundaries did not take place until some years after the inventory had been compiled, at which time an error was made for this site which has remained unnoticed until now. The BirdLife International Secretariat assumes full responsibility for this error and apologises to all concerned. The correct map for the IBA appears as Figure 1.

Figure 1. Boundaries of the Gebel el Zeit, Hurghada Archipelago and El Qa Plain Important Bird Areas, together with points surveyed in Hilgerloh (Reference Hilgerloh2009).

References

Baha El Din, S. (1999) Directory of Important Bird Areas in Egypt. Dokki, Cairo: Privately published.Google Scholar
Baha El Din, S. (2001) Egypt. Pp.241–264. in Fishpool, L. D. C. and Evans, M. I., eds. Important Bird Areas in Africa and associated islands: Priority sites for conservation. Newbury and Cambridge, UK: Pisces publications and BirdLife International. (BirdLife Conservation Series no. 11).Google Scholar
Hilgerloh, G. (2009) The desert at Zait Bay, Egypt: a bird migration bottleneck of global importance. Bird Conserv. Int. 19: 338–352.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Figure 1. Boundaries of the Gebel el Zeit, Hurghada Archipelago and El Qa Plain Important Bird Areas, together with points surveyed in Hilgerloh (2009).