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Nest occupation and prey grabbing by saker falcon (Falco cherrug) on power lines in the province of Vojvodina (Serbia) [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2008 Research on nest occupation and prey grabbing by saker falcon (Falco cherrug) on power lines in Vojvodina (Serbia) was done in the period from 1986 to 2004.
Puzović S.
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Whistle characterization of long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis bairdii) in La Paz Bay, Gulf of California [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis bairdii) distribution is limited to the Eastern North Pacific Ocean. Its whistle repertoire is poorly investigated, with no studies in the Gulf of California.
Óscar Carlón-Beltrán +4 more
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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2018 Abundance and distribution of Common Ravens (Corvus corax) have increased across western North America in recent decades, leading to conservation concern for sensitive prey species.
Brianne E. Brussee, Peter S. Coates
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Population responses of common ravens to reintroduced gray wolves [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2018 AbstractTop predators have cascading effects throughout the food web, but their impacts on scavenger abundance are largely unknown. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) provide carrion to a suite of scavenger species, including the common raven (Corvus corax). Ravens are wide‐ranging and intelligent omnivores that commonly take advantage of anthropogenic food ...
Lauren E. Walker +6 more
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Evaluating the efficacy of carbachol at reducing corvid predation on artificial nests
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2018 Nest predation often limits recovery of threatened and endangered birds, especially ground‐nesting species. Accordingly, a variety of techniques are used to reduce the impact of nest predation on listed species.
Matthew P. Brinkman +2 more
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Calls during agonistic interactions vary with arousal and raise audience attention in ravens
Frontiers in Zoology, 2017 Background Acoustic properties of vocalizations can vary with the internal state of the caller, and may serve as reliable indicators for a caller’s emotional state, for example to prevent conflicts.
Georgine Szipl +3 more
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Movement Ecology, 2022 Background Anthropogenic food sources (AFSs) are widespread in human-transformed landscapes and the current scale at which they occur drives ecological change at the individual, population, and community levels.
Varalika Jain +5 more
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U.S. Fiction in the Age of Authenticity: Earnestness and Digital Epitexts in Leilani’s Luster
Enthymema, 2023 This essay aims to explore the interrelation of the widespread use of digital epitextual material and the common practice, in post-postmodern U.S. fiction, to employ characters and character-narrators that share some biographical details with their ...
Virginia Pignagnoli
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Spatio-angular Minimum-variance Tomographic Controller for Multi-Object Adaptive Optics systems [PDF]
, 2015 Multi-object astronomical adaptive-optics (MOAO) is now a mature wide-field observation mode to enlarge the adaptive-optics-corrected field in a few specific locations over tens of arc-minutes.
Andersen, David +5 more
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Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2019 Evolution involves developmental change. Species comparisons play an important role in comparative cognition because they can uncover common patterns and shared principles in cognitive evolution.
Ivo Jacobs +2 more
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