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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Farmland birds are facing a gradual decline in their population globally due to various anthropogenic threats. Understanding farmers' knowledge, attitudes, and perception towards the conservation of farmland birds is crucial to understand distribution ...
Hem Bahadur Katuwal +4 more
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First detailed survey of waterbirds in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts, Tamil Nadu, India [PDF]
, 2013 The semi-arid districts of Tirunelveli and Tuticorin in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu consist of numerous wetlands in the form of irrigation tanks, interconnected by an ancient network of canals, and fed by the rivers originating from the ...
Abhisheka, K +4 more
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The Trumpeters of Bemersyde: at Scottish Placename Reconsidered
Names, 1999 The placename Bemersyde in the Scottish county of Berwickshire is usually explained as “hillside or seat of the trumpeter,” from the Old English words bēmere “trumpeter” and sīde “hillside” or “seat.” This would represent an unusual type of formation ...
Carole Hough
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020 Background The loss of traditional ecological knowledge in endangered language communities is a cause of concern worldwide. Given the state of current knowledge, it is difficult to say whether language and TEK transmission levels are correlated, i.e ...
Aung Si
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Likeability of Garden Birds: Importance of Species Knowledge & Richness in Connecting People to Nature. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Interacting with nature is widely recognised as providing many health and well-being benefits. As people live increasingly urbanised lifestyles, the provision of food for garden birds may create a vital link for connecting people to nature and enabling ...
Daniel T C Cox, Kevin J Gaston
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Bird Names and Folklore from the Emberá (Chocó) in Darién, Panamá
Ethnobiology Letters, 2015 This paper presents data on names and folklore of birds collected among native speakers of Emberá in the moist tropical forests of Darién, Panamá. The naming data was collected by systematic elicitation of names from pictorial representations of birds.
Stephanie C. Kane
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Avibase – a database system for managing and organizing taxonomic concepts
ZooKeys, 2014 Scientific names of biological entities offer an imperfect resolution of the concepts that they are intended to represent. Often they are labels applied to entities ranging from entire populations to individual specimens representing those populations ...
Denis Lepage +2 more
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People and Nature, 2022 We studied the natural history knowledge (NHK) of students (18–19 years), considering the salience of nature expressed through the knowledge of names of organisms, routes for knowledge transmission and acquisition and the potential of specific taxa to ...
Andrew G. Gosler, Stephen M. Tilling
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Huitzil, 2017 The Florentine Codex is a Renaissance-era illuminated manuscript that contains the earliest-known regional work on the birds of México. Its Nahuatl language texts and scholia (the latter later incorporated into its Spanish texts) were written in the ...
Paul D. Haemig
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