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Solent Disturbance and Mitigation Project Phase II: Predicting the impact of human disturbance on overwintering birds in the Solent. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Solent coastline provides feeding grounds for internationally protected populations of overwintering waders and wildfowl, and is also extensively used for recreation.
West, Andrew D.   +3 more
core   +8 more sources

24: EVALUATION OF GAME‐FARM AND WILD‐TRAPPED TURKEYS IN PENNSYLVANIA*

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 1973
The relative merits of game‐farm and wild‐trapped stock in establishing self‐sustaining turkey populations in Pennsylvania were studied over a 16‐year period, from 1951 to 1967, by banding 10,590 game‐farm turkeys.
Gerald A. Wunz
doaj   +1 more source

Boyle and Birds' Company Law

open access: yes, 2011
Boyle & Birds' Company Law is a well established leading textbook for practitioners and those involved in the day-to-day administration of companies.
Birds, John, Clark, Bryan, Boyle, A.J.
core   +3 more sources

Detecting capture-related mortality in radio-marked birds following release

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2018
A fundamental assumption of avian survival analysis is that the act of capture, handling, and marking birds does not affect subsequent survival. This assumption is violated when animals experience injury, physiological stress, or disorientation during ...
Erik J. Blomberg   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biennial report of the Game Commission of the State of Oregon to the Governor and the Forty-Eighth Legislative Assembly: 1953-1954

open access: yes
July 1, 1952-June 30, 1954. Report of the Oregon Game Commission’s transactions and operations for 1952-1954. Because of its importance, water for fish and wildlife is the focus of this report, and discussion of this topic is included in nearly every ...
Oregon. State Game Commission
core   +6 more sources

Preliminary data on the activity of male and female common pheasants Phasianus colchicus during the breeding period in a Mediterranean area

open access: yesAvocetta
Assessing patterns of activity rhythms in wildlife is pivotal for species conservation. In this work, we aimed at determining the curve of activity rhythms of male and female common pheasants Phasianus colchicus in a Mediterranean area in central Italy.
Andrea Viviano   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk of Infection, Local Prevalence and Seasonal Changes in an Avian Malaria Community Associated with Game Bird Releases

open access: yesDiversity, 2021
Anthropogenic activities, such as the translocation or introduction of animals, may cause a parallel movement of exotic parasites harboured by displaced animals.
Jesús T. García   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neanderthal use of fish, mammals, birds, starchy plants and wood 125-250,000 years ago. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
Neanderthals are most often portrayed as big game hunters who derived the vast majority of their diet from large terrestrial herbivores while birds, fish and plants are seen as relatively unimportant or beyond the capabilities of Neanderthals.
Bruce L Hardy, Marie-Hélène Moncel
doaj   +1 more source

Investigation of Campylobacter in Reared Game Birds

open access: yesJournal of Food Protection, 2006
A total of 103 pooled samples of neck skin and meat from pigeons for the table and neck skin of pheasant were analyzed bacteriologically to determine the presence of Campylobacter. Colonies suspected of being Campylobacter were grown from 15.8% of pigeon neck skin samples, 12.5% of pigeon meat samples, and 50% of pheasant neck skin samples after ...
G. Soncini   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Information Transmission Strategies for Self‐Organized Robotic Aggregation

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
In this review, we discuss how information transmission influences the neighbor‐based self‐organized aggregation of swarm robots. We focus specifically on local interactions regarding information transfer and categorize previous studies based on the functions of the information exchanged.
Shu Leng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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