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, 2009 Biography of David Feathers, Assistant Professor, Department of Design and Environmental ...
Feathers, David
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Birds as Bioindicators of Pollution in Aquatic and Terrestrial Environments [PDF]
, 2012 [eng] Birds have been widely used as bioindicators. In this study we face the use of birds as bioindicators of metal pollution in two different scenarios of contamination: one that takes place in an aquatic environment, the Ebro river basin, and a second
Cotín Martínez, Javier
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Heritage, 2022 In this paper, two different objects from the ethnographic collection of the museum of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (Rome), a Polynesian barkcloth (tapa) and a Polynesian headdress in feathers (pa’e ku’a), were investigated to ...
Claudia Colantonio +7 more
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Heavy Metals in Biota in Delaware Bay, NJ: Developing a Food Web Approach to Contaminants
Toxics, 2019 Understanding the relationship between heavy metal and selenium levels in biota and their foods is important, but often difficult to determine because animals eat a variety of organisms.
Joanna Burger +5 more
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Nest decoration: birds exploit a fear of feathers to guard their nest from usurpation
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Many species of birds incorporate feathers into their nest as structural support and to insulate the eggs or offspring. Here, we investigated the novel idea that birds reduce the risk of nest usurpation by decorating it with feathers to trigger a fear ...
Tore Slagsvold, Karen L. Wiebe
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Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2007 For the first time, it was identified a mite in a three-year-old male ostrich that had lost feathers and showed skin irritation. The animal belonged to a flock of 50 birds, located in Baixada Fluminense, in Rio de Janeiro State.
D.G. Mattos Jr +5 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 The stem lineage relationships and early phenotypic evolution of Charadriiformes (shorebirds) and Gruiformes (rails, cranes, and allies) remain unresolved. It is still debated whether these clades are sister-taxa.
Grace Musser, Julia A. Clarke
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Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science, 2009 The large amounts of feathers produced by the poultry industry, that is considered as a waste was explored for possible uses in various industries, such as meals for animals, biofuels, biodegradable plastic materials, combating water pollution and more ...
I Davidson
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Effect of Repeated Gathering and Age on the Quality of Zatorska Goose Feathers
The Journal of Poultry Science, 2018 We investigated a reproductive flock of Zatorska geese. The birds were divided into four groups: three-year-old ganders (n=10), and one-, two-, and three-year-old layers (n=30).
Andrzej Ochrem +2 more
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