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Tongue and Glottis Morphology of Cathartes aura and the Secret of Its Functional Adaptation
Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cathartes aura, commonly known as the Turkey vulture, is a scavenger bird belonging to the family Cathartidae that is widely distributed throughout the Americas and classified as a New World vulture. Its diet primarily consists of small‐sized carcasses, predominantly of wild animals.
Jean Caio Figueiredo de Almeida +5 more
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, 2015 Mlíkovský, Jiří (2015): The type specimens, type localities and nomenclature of Sarcoramphus vultures (Aves: Cathartidae), with a note on their speciation. Zootaxa 3918 (4): 579-586, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.
Mlíkovský, Jiří
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FIGURE 1 in Validity of Bartram's Painted Vulture (Aves: Cathartidae)
, 2013 FIGURE 1. Eleazar Albin's painting of the Warwovwen or Indian Vulture was a hand-colored 1734 rendition of a captive vulture at Charing-Cross, England, that was of uncertain geographic origin, but presumably came from somewhere in the New World ...
Snyder, Noel F. R., Fry, Joel T.
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Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 10, October 2026.This study provides the first comprehensive reassessment of avian diversity in the Tumbesian region in over 30 years, documenting 931 species and identifying significant sampling gaps driven by geographic accessibility. We reveal a critical misalignment between biodiversity value and current protection coverage, particularly in humid forests which ...
Anabel Cueva‐Agila +3 more
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Wildlife Monographs, Volume 225, Issue 1, September 2026.We describe the host response continuum for highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV), including the continuum of host responses to HPAIV infection and exposure based on the primary axis of host competence, ability to infect other hosts, and host vulnerability.
Johanna A. Harvey +9 more
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Nutritional osteodystrophy in South American birds of prey [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira: Nutritional osteodystrophy is a metabolic bone disease characterized by increased bone resorption and replacement by fibrous connective tissue, resulting from a diet with excess phosphorus or deficient in calcium or vitamin D.
Luiz G.S. Oliveira +7 more
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FIGURE 3 in Validity of Bartram's Painted Vulture (Aves: Cathartidae)
, 2013 FIGURE 3. William Bartram's original portrait of Mico Chlucco, the Long Warrior or King of the Muscogulges, evidently dates from 1786 and was a response to a request from his publishers to provide a frontispiece for his immortal Travels, which finally ...
Snyder, Noel F. R., Fry, Joel T.
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FIGURE 4 in Validity of Bartram's Painted Vulture (Aves: Cathartidae)
, 2013 FIGURE 4. As reproduced from a photograph in Knight (1996), a limestone bowl recovered from the Moundville prehistoric site in central Alabama in 1906 has a handle resembling the head and neck of a King Vulture (or Painted Vulture), as suggested by ...
Snyder, Noel F. R., Fry, Joel T.
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The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Volume 107, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Knowing about species interactions is essential for ecological research, conservation efforts, resource management, and maintaining healthy ecosystems, but many of these, such as reports of predation, may not always be published in easily located resources—if they are published at all.
Matthijs P. van den Burg, Hinrich Kaiser
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, 2016 Los estudios de ecología trófica son relevantes porque permiten entender la estructura y estabilidad de las redes tróficas y brindar aportes a la conservación de las especies intervinientes; como también pueden contribuir a los estudios de controles de ...
Ballejo, Fernando
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