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Bird Population Changes Following the Establishment of a Diverse Stand of Woody Plants in a Former Crop Field in North Dakota, 1975– 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Changes in the coverage of trees and shrubs on the North Dakota landscape since Euro- American settlement have likely had a pronounced impact on bird species that favor woody vegetation.
Igl, Lawrence D.   +2 more
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Vocalizations of adult male Asian koels (Eudynamys scolopacea) in the breeding season. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Defining the vocal repertoire provides a basis for understanding the role of acoustic signals in sexual and social interactions of an animal. The Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopacea) is a migratory bird which spends its summer breeding season in the plains ...
Abdul Aziz Khan, Irfan Zia Qureshi
doaj   +1 more source

Words of a Feather [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Have you ever encountered a white-whiskered hermit or a festive coquette? How about a rifleman or a firewood-gatherer? Have you seen a village weaver or a bearded mountaineer? What about a red-tailed comet or a shining sunbeam? If you answered in the
Young, William
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Recent name changes in ornithological taxonomy

open access: yesAvocetta
Review of Reedman R. 2024. The Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palearctic. Pelagic Publishing, London. 378 pp.
Bruno Massa
doaj   +1 more source

Sound symbolism in synesthesia: evidence from a lexical-gustatory synesthete [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Synesthesia is a condition in which perceptual or cognitive stimuli (e.g., a written letter) trigger atypical additional percepts (e.g., the color yellow).
Bankieris K.   +8 more
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What's in a Tibetan name?

open access: yesNames
Toponyms of the Tibetan Plateau have been scarcely studied. To help address that need, this study explores cross-cultural toponymy and phonetic opacity.
Thupten Wodzer
doaj   +1 more source

Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur Nr. 32 (2004) - Abstracts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
s der Artikel zu SAK 32 (2004). Die Autoren sind: M. Abdelrahiem, H. Altenmüller, N. Billing, S. Bojowald, A. Brawanski, V.G. Callender, M. Coenen, M. Fitzenreiter, C. Geisen, A. Gulyás, F.-R. Herbin, K. Jansen-Winkeln, M. El-Khadragy/J. Kahl, N. Kloth,
Kloth, Nicole (Hrsg.)
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Pollen loads of eucalypt and other pollen types in birds in NW Spain

open access: yesData in Brief, 2015
Here we present the amount of pollen of eucalypt and pollen of other types for birds captured in two bird ringing stations for 14 months (March 2014 to April 2015) in NW Spain.
María Calviño-Cancela, Max Neumann
doaj   +1 more source

The identity of the bird known locally in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Norfolk, United Kingdom, as the Spowe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the kitchen record books of the L'Estrange family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there are references to a bird, widely shot on the Norfolk coast, called a Spowe. On the basis of the similarity to the Icelandic name, J. H.
Birkhead, T.R., Cooke, F.
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Evaluation of Output Embeddings for Fine-Grained Image Classification

open access: yes, 2015
Image classification has advanced significantly in recent years with the availability of large-scale image sets. However, fine-grained classification remains a major challenge due to the annotation cost of large numbers of fine-grained categories.
Akata, Zeynep   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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