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Seroprevalence and Risk Analysis of Toxoplasma Gondii in Wild Birds of District Lahore Punjab, Pakistan. [PDF]

Vet Med Sci
This study found that over 10% of wild birds in Lahore, Pakistan, carry antibodies for Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that can cause serious illness in humans and animals. Birds like lapwings and silver bills showed especially high antibody rates. Improved monitoring is needed to better understand risk dynamics in Pakistan.
Ali S, Imran F, Lilak AA, Latif T, von Fricken ME, Tayyub M, Saeed U, Iftikhar A.   +7 more
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Mitochondrial Genome Analysis of Philippine Eagles (<i>Pithecophaga jefferyi</i> Ogilvie-Grant 1896) From the Greater Mindanao Faunal Region. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Mitogenome sequencing is a promising alternative for the genetic studies of animals. In this work, we examined the genetic diversity of the critically endangered and endemic Philippine eagles and their evolutionary relationship to other birds of prey.
Bacus MG, Gaite PLA, Acaso JT, Cambronero JM, Ramos GN, Numeron AMM, Tadena D, Labrador CC, Responte MA, Gamalo LED, Ibañez JC, Murao LAE.   +11 more
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A Practical Method to Assess Bird Strike Risk in Air Operations Using a Count-Based Risk Mitigation Tool. [PDF]

Risk Anal
ABSTRACT Bird strikes pose a risk to aviation. Collisions between birds and airplanes result in a threat to human lives, economic losses, and material damage. The majority of these collisions occur on airfields during takeoff and landing. Knowing what bird species are present on airfields, in what numbers, and relating that to the extent to which these
Teunizen AM, van Gasteren H, Krijgsveld KL.   +2 more
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Scat-Tered Evidence. Understanding the Diet of Forest-Associated Mammalian Mesopredators in a UK Peatland Ecosystem. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
DNA metabarcoding of predator scat can provide direct evidence of trophic interactions in a landscape that may refute prior indirect evidence based on correlative data. ABSTRACT Peatland ecosystems and the unique biodiversity they support are under risk from multiple stressors, including changes in species interactions.
McHenry R, Mitchell LJ, Smart J, Andersen R.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co-roosting host communities. [PDF]

Ecology
Abstract Cross‐species transmission of pathogens can be facilitated by frequent contact among wildlife. Cross‐species transmission is often driven by phylogenetic similarity between host species, but the role this plays when multiple host species co‐roost is unknown.
Simonis MC, Becker DJ.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Postfledging Survival, Movements, and Dispersal of Ring Ouzels (Turdus torquatus) [PDF]

, 2013
We thank Invercauld Estate for cooperation with access to Glen Clunie. S. Redpath, J. Wilson, and S. Roos provided valuable comments on the manuscript. This study was funded by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Scottish Natural Heritage, and
Eaton M. A., Gibbons D., Graham W. Rebecca, Innes M. W. Sim, Jane M. Reid, Joanna L. Loughrey, Murray C. Grant, Sim I., Sonja C. Ludwig, Thirgood S. J., Watson D.   +10 more
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Assessing the causes of breeding failure among the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) during the nestling period [PDF]

Polar Research, 2012
When food becomes scarce, the youngest nestlings in facultatively siblicidal raptor species typically die and such events are usually attributed to siblicide.
Ivan Pokrovsky, Dorothee Ehrich, Rolf A. Ims, Olga Kulikova, Nicolas Lecomte, Nigel G. Yoccoz   +5 more
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Insights From Observations and Large-Scale Field Experiments on Vole Population Cycles in Northern Europe: A 40-Year Study of Predator-Prey Interactions. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
On the basis of our unique series of large‐scale, replicated field experiments in both unfenced and fenced settings, where densities of vole predators were significantly reduced, we conclude that the collective impact of both mustelid and avian predators is a probable mechanistic explanation for high‐amplitude population cycles of voles in boreal ...
Korpimäki E, Banks PB, Klemola T.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Regional distribution shifts help explain local changes in wintering raptor abundance: implications for interpreting population trends. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Studies of multiple taxa across broad-scales suggest that species distributions are shifting poleward in response to global climate change. Recognizing the influence of distribution shifts on population indices will be an important part of interpreting ...
Neil Paprocki, Julie A Heath, Stephen J Novak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Late Pleistocene and Earliest Holocene avifauna from the Loutra Almopias Cave (Macedonia, Greece)

Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 2019
The bird fauna of the Loutra Almopias Cave comprised eight orders, 22 families, 41 genera and at least 47 species (68 different taxa) established based on 551 avian bone finds. The Loutra Almopias Cave is a new (26th) Pleistocene avian locality in Greece.
Zlatozar Boev, Evangelia Tsoukala
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