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Wild Bird Movements and Avian Influenza Risk Mapping in Southern Africa
Ecology and Society, 2008 Global analyses of the potential for avian influenza transmission by wild birds have ignored key characteristics of the southern African avifauna. Although southern Africa hosts a variety of migratory, Holarctic-breeding wading birds and shorebirds, the ...
Graeme S. Cumming +3 more
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Ecology of avian settlements in Lake Tonga (Northeast Algeria)
Zoodiversity, 2020 Lake Tonga is an integral reserve within the El-Kala National Park, Biosphere Reserve and Ramsar site. This study consists in determining the diversity and phenology status of waterbirds in this reserve over an entire annual cycle (2017–2018). The census
K. Loucif +5 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Dongting Lake (DTL) and Poyang Lake (PYL), the China’s two largest freshwater lakes, are vital migration routes and wintering habitats for the migratory birds of East Asian – Australia. Due to damming and climate change, the water level during the middle
Haipeng Wu +8 more
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Census Study of Ducks, Swans and Geese from High-Altitude Wetlands of Pakistan
Journal of Bioresource Management, 2018 The family Anatidae consists of aquatic birds such as ducks, geese and swans of varied sizes that belong to the order Anseriformes (Carboneras, 1992). The Anatidae comprise of approximately 148 species (Johnsgard, 2010).
Fakhra Nazir +2 more
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El Hornero, 1949 This article does not have an abstract.
Jean Delacour +2 more
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A New Species of Large Duck (Aves: Anatidae) from the Miocene of New Zealand
Taxonomy, 2022 We describe a new species of extinct duck, Miotadorna catrionae sp. nov. (Anatidae, Tadornini, Tadorninae), based on a right humerus from the Miocene lacustrine deposits of St Bathans, Otago, New Zealand. Principal component analysis reveals that the new
Alan J. D. Tennyson +6 more
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Contrasting diversity patterns of breeding Anatidae in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 For sustaining ecosystem functions and services, environmental conservation strategies increasingly target to maintain the multiple facets of biodiversity, such as functional diversity (FD) and phylogenetic diversity (PD), not just taxonomic diversity ...
Qing Zeng +5 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 During the second half of 2005, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus spread rapidly from central Asia to eastern Europe. The relative roles of wild migratory birds and the poultry trade are still unclear, given that little is yet known ...
Hongjie Yu +5 more
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Aggressiveness predicts dominance rank in greylag geese: mirror tests and agonistic interactions
Royal Society Open ScienceIndividual differences in aggressiveness, if consistent across time and contexts, may contribute to the long-term maintenance of social hierarchies in complex animal societies.
Sonia Kleindorfer +4 more
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Digenea, Strigeidae, Australapatemon canadensis Dubois and Rausch, 1950: first record in South America and a new host record [PDF]
Check List, 2010 Australapatemon canadensis Dubois and Rausch, 1950 (Digenea, Strigeidae) is reported parasitizing to Cygnus melancoryphus (Molina) (Anatidae) from Lacombe Lagoon, Buenos Aires Province and Pellegrini Lake Río Negro Province, Argentina.
Fabiana Drago, Lía Lunaschi
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