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Check-list of Italian Birds, updated to the end of 2014

Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2015
We provide a check-list of Italian birds with major emphasis on the phenological categorization of each taxon, following the approach and updating the results of an analogous list previously published (Brichetti & Massa, 1998).
Pierandrea Brichetti, Giancarlo Fracasso
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Bird conservation status and cultural values in Indigenous Mexican communities: towards a bioculturally informed conservation policy

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background We summarize comparative ethnoornithological data for ten Mexican Indigenous communities, an initial step towards a comprehensive archive of the avian diversity conserved within Mexico’s Indigenous territories. We do so by counting highlighted
Graciela Alcántara-Salinas, Eugene S. Hunn, María Elena Ibáñez-Bravo, Elda Miriam Aldasoro-Maya, Noé Flores-Hernández, Juan Antonio Pérez-Sato, Natalia Real-Luna, Rafael Arturo Muñoz-Márquez Trujillo, Diana Lope-Alzina, Jaime Ernesto Rivera-Hernández   +9 more
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Mesopotamian and Indian Bird Omens

Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2022
This paper explores the relationship between bird omens that occur in both the Sanskrit Gārgīyajyotiṣa Aṅga 42 and the Akkadian Šumma Ālu and related Cuneiform tablets.
Kenneth Zysk
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Global Trends in the Status of Bird and Mammal Pollinators [PDF]

, 2015
Biodiversity is declining, with direct and indirect effects on ecosystem func-tions and services that are poorly quantified. Here, we develop the first globalassessment of trends in pollinators, focusing on pollinating birds and mam-mals.
Barnosky, Benning, Biesmeijer, BirdLife International, Borgella, Butchart, Butchart, Butchart, Böhm, Courter, Cronk, De Grammont, Eilers, Fleming, Gallai, Garibaldi, Gerlach, Hadley, Hoffmann, Hoffmann, Howell, Hoyo, IUCN, Kasso, Klein, Kremen, Kunz, Lebuhn, Lewis, McKinney, Mickleburgh, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Muchhala, Nicolson, Olesen, Ollerton, Potts, Stuart, Sumner, Tittensor, Velthuis   +40 more
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The Timor green pigeon Treron psittaceus of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste may be on the verge of extinction

Oryx
The Timor green pigeon Treron psittaceus, endemic to Timor, Rote, and adjacent satellite islands (eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste), is declining because of severe hunting pressure and forest conversion. During 2002–2025, we conducted > 1,400 field days
Colin R. Trainor, Jafet Potenzo Lopes, Pedro Pinto, Rui Miguel Da Silva Pinto, Alex J. Berryman   +4 more
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An updated checklist of the marine birds (Aves) of Golfo Dulce, southern Costa Rica [PDF]

Check List
Golfo Dulce is a fjord-like embayment on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, which encompasses the marine protected area of Piedras Blancas National Park.
Alejandra Rojas-Barrantes, Luis Sandoval
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A climate change vulnerability assessment of California's at-risk birds. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Conservationists must develop new strategies and adapt existing tools to address the consequences of anthropogenic climate change. To support statewide climate change adaptation, we developed a framework for assessing climate change vulnerability of ...
Thomas Gardali, Nathaniel E Seavy, Ryan T DiGaudio, Lyann A Comrack   +3 more
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Bird species present in urban parks are more colorful than urban avoiders: A test in the Argentinian Pampas

Avian Research
Bird plumage color has been assessed as a possible trait driving the presence of bird species in urban areas. Although some species can see the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum, the mentioned studies did not take into account UV reflectance when characterizing ...
Lucas M. Leveau
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Low‐Cost, Large‐Scale Nanoporous Metals by Mechanical Alloying, Oxide Reduction, and Dealloying of Powders

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Powder metal processing provides scalable advantages in nanoporous (np) metal development. Mechanical alloying is used to produce unique precursors for hybrid nanopore formation by oxide reduction and dealloying. As demonstrated in np Ag, this approach improves process efficiency while promoting smaller ligaments and larger pores, both of which are ...
Mark A. Atwater, Oliver A. Fowler
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European Roller thief nailed by DNA found in a bird carrier

Avocetta, 2022
In 2018 a bird poacher, who used to remove chicks illegally from their wild nests in Central Italy, was the focus of a complex investigation by law-enforcement.
Luisa Garofalo, Rita Fanelli, Annalisa Brucoli, Sebastian Cannarella, Rita Lorenzini   +4 more
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