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Three-dimensional niche partitioning between two colonially nesting ardeid species in central China
Avian Research, 2021 Background Interspecific competition is known to be strongest between those species that are both closely related and sympatric. Egrets are colonially nesting wetland birds that often overlap and can therefore be expected to compete in roosting and ...
Yuanxing Ye +4 more
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Community Composition of Aquatic Birds in Lakes of Bangalore, India [PDF]
, 2011 Observations were made on the occurrence, abundance, richness, and diversity of waterbirds in 15 major lakes in Bangalore city during 2008 - 2009. During the study period 35 species of aquatic birds were recorded.
Rajashekara, S., Venkatesha, M.G.
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Seasonal variation in wild pig (Sus scrofa) diet revealed by DNA metabarcoding
Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.Using DNA metabarcoding of fecal samples, we investigated the diet of wild pigs at an extensive bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem within Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Arkansas. We found that wild pig diet was highly diverse and included at least 74 plant families and 106 genera and 23 species of vertebrates.
Kenneth C. Wilson +3 more
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Registros inusuales de aves en la hoya de Loja, Andes sur del Ecuador
ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías, 2016 Presentamos datos actualizados sobre la distribución de 20 especies de aves del Ecuador, 16 de estas registradas por primera ocasión dentro de la hoya de Loja, valle inter-Andino del sur del país: Podilymbus podiceps, Phalacrocorax brasilianus, Butorides
Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado +3 more
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2023 Cattle egret Bubulcus ibis, feeds on insect pests in many agro-ecosystems. Thus, there is an urgent need to study the breeding chronology of cattle egret, in order to develop suitable protection programs for this beneficial bird to perform its role as ...
M. A. A. Issa +6 more
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Low overall haemosporidian occurrence (3.4%; 13/383). Unexpected high lineage diversity (10 new host–parasite interactions). Novel Leucocytozoon lineage (GYPBAR01) in all European vultures except the griffon vulture. Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1) in adult red kites.
Pilar Oliva‐Vidal +5 more
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.A study of louse flies in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Ireland found 212 different interactions between Hippoboscidae and their hosts, of which 70 were previously unrecorded. No louse flies were found on aquatic species of birds. Host‐switching to gulls (Laridae) has occurred during a period in which these species have started relying on ...
Denise C. Wawman +2 more
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Diet of Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis ibis) in the flood valley of the Paraná River, northern Argentina [PDF]
, 2009 Fil: Ducommun, María de la Paz. Instituto Nacional de Limnología (INALI, CONICET-UNL); Santo Tomé; Santa FeFil: Quiroga, Martín Aníbal. Instituto Nacional de Limnología (INALI, CONICET-UNL); Santo Tomé; Santa FeFil: Beltzer, Adolfo Héctor.
Beltzer, Adolfo Héctor +3 more
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2022 This study was aimed to investigate Carbofuran (CF)-induced pathological changes in cattle egret. Two hundred cattle egrets were reared and equally divided into four groups and given different CF concentrations (0.03 mg/L, 0.02 mg/L, 0.01 mg/L and 0 mg/L
M. A. Munir +14 more
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The “regime shift extinctions” hypothesis and mass extinction of waterbirds in Hawaiʻi
Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Studies of biodiversity loss commonly imply that species extinctions occurred as a direct result of initial human arrival and thus are attributable to stewardship failures of Indigenous Peoples. However, recent studies have suggested this assumption is not supported by the evidence, prompting a global reevaluation of existing assumptions.
Kristen C. Harmon +2 more
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