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Acknowledgments RECUPERA 2020 project partially funded Miguel Ferrer for this study. We
are grateful to the Doñana Natural Processes Monitoring Team, especially José Luis Arroyo and
Fernando Ibáñez, and also Luis García, Héctor Garrido, José Luis del Valle, Rubén Rodríguez, and
Alfredo Chico. The authors want also to thank to Consejería de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de
Andalucía for the funding of the Long-Term Monitoring Program of Doñana Natural Space and the
annual census of Doñana breeding birds. Thanks to the owners of Veta La Palma for their cooperation and help in accessing the colonies.
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are grateful to the Doñana Natural Processes Monitoring Team, especially José Luis Arroyo and
Fernando Ibáñez, and also Luis García, Héctor Garrido, José Luis del Valle, Rubén Rodríguez, and
Alfredo Chico. The authors want also to thank to Consejería de Medio Ambiente de la Junta de
Andalucía for the funding of the Long-Term Monitoring Program of Doñana Natural Space and the
annual census of Doñana breeding birds. Thanks to the owners of Veta La Palma for their cooperation and help in accessing the colonies.
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from unmanned aerial vehicle imagery. Surv. Land Inf. Sci. 65, 37–45 (2005)
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ecology. Front. Ecol. Environ. 11, 138–146 (2013). doi:10.1890/120150
Bakó, G., Tolnai, M., Takács, Á.: Introduction and testing of a monitoring and colony-mapping
method for waterbird populations that uses high-speed and ultra-detailed aerial remote sensing.
Sensors. 14, 12828–12846 (2014). doi:10.3390/s140712828
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Chabot, D., Craik, S.R., Bird, D.M.: Population census of a large common tern colony with a small
unmanned aircraft. Plos One. 10, e0122588 (2015). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122588
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Chrétien, L.-P., Théau, J., Ménard, P.: Visible and thermal infrared remote sensing for the detection
of white-tailed deer using an unmanned aerial system. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 40, 181–191 (2016).
doi:10.1002/wsb.629
Del-Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J.: Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 3, Lynx Edicions
edn. Hoatzin to Auks, Barcelona (1996)
Foody, G.M., Mathur, A.: A relative evaluation of multiclass image classification by support
vector machines. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. 42, 1335–1343 (2004). doi:10.1109/
TGRS.2004.827257
Frederick, P.C., Towles, T., Sawicki, R.J., Bancroft, G.T.: Comparison of aerial and ground
techniques for discovery and census of wading bird (Ciconiiformes) nesting colonies. The
Condor. 98, 837–841 (1996). doi:10.2307/1369865
Grenzdörffer, G.J.: UAS-based automatic bird count of a common gull colony. ISPRS –
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spat. Inf. Sci. 1, 169–174 (2013). doi:10.5194/
isprsarchives-XL-1-W2-169-2013
Hodgson, J.C., Baylis, S.M., Mott, R., Herrod, A., Clarke, R.H.: Precision wildlife monitoring
using unmanned aerial vehicles. Sci. Rep. 6, 22574 (2016). doi:10.1038/srep22574
Jones, G.P., Pearlstine, L.G., Percival, H.F.: An assessment of small unmanned aerial vehicles for
wildlife research. Wildl. Soc. Bull.. 1973-2006. 34, 750–758 (2006)
Madroño, A., González, G.G., Atienza, J.C.: Libro rojo de las aves de España. Organismo
Autónomo Parques Nacionales (2004)
Mañez, M., Arroyo, J.L., Chico, A., del Valle, J.L., García, L., Garrido, H., Martínez, A., Rodríguez,
R.: Seguimiento de Aves Acuáticas. Espacio Natural de Doñana. Reproducción 2016. Estación
Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla, España (2015)
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