The Windy City Rookery: Movement and Activity Patterns of Black‐Crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) in a Human‐Dominated Landscape [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAs urbanization continues to accelerate, human‐dominated habitats are becoming increasingly important for wildlife as some species of conservation concern move into urban landscapes.
Sarah Slayton +6 more
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The Relationship of Nest‐Site Selection Parameters, Timing of Breeding, Brood Size, and Nestling Body Condition With Brood Sex Ratio in the Black‐Crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionBrood sex ratio is a fundamental aspect of evolutionary biology, with profound implications for life‐history traits, parental investment, sex allocation, offspring rearing, and ultimately, reproductive success, population dynamics, and viability ...
Seyedeh Farahnaz Vesali +3 more
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Aberración ino en Garza Bruja (Nycticorax nycticorax) [PDF]
Nuestras Aves, 2016 Este artículo no cuenta con un resumen.
Lorena Vanesa Sovrano +2 more
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Genomic insight into the nocturnal adaptation of the black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2022 Background The black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) is an ardeid bird successfully adapted to the nocturnal environment. Previous studies had indicated that the eyes of the night herons have evolved several specialized morphological traits ...
Haoran Luo +5 more
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Unraveling the Diversity of Haemosporidians in Brazilian Non-Passerine Birds: Insights from Midwestern Brazil [PDF]
PathogensAvian haemosporidians have been widely studied because they provide important insights into parasite distribution and diversity. However, most available data come from passerines, resulting in gaps regarding other bird groups, primarily due to the ...
Morgana Maira Hennig +8 more
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Unravelling the diversity of Posthodiplostomum Dubois, 1936 (Trematoda: Diplostomidae) in fish-eating birds from the Neotropical region of Mexico, with the description of a new species [PDF]
ParasitologyAdults of the genus Posthodiplostomum, Dubois, 1936 are parasites of fish-eating birds, mainly of the family Ardeidae, and are globally distributed. The genus currently comprises 35 species, although recent molecular evidence has shown that the diversity
Marcelo Tonatiuh González-García +5 more
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Notulae Scientia Biologicae, 2021 The present study was conducted in the Gangajalghati block of Northern Bankura, India, to investigate the habitat and nest tree preference of three colonial waterbirds viz. Nycticorax nycticorax, Egretta garzetta, and Ardeola grayii. The study sites were
Ananya NAYAK
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Artificial Wetlands as Breeding Habitats for Colonial Waterbirds within Central Romania
Diversity, 2020 The historical loss of natural wetlands in Romania is significant. The building of lakes, ponds, and dams has compensated for some of these losses, as was the case in the study area, the artificial wetlands designated as the Natura 2000 (special ...
Dan Traian Ionescu +2 more
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Primera cita de reproducción de martinete común Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758) en Gipuzkoa [PDF]
Munibe Ciencias NaturalesSe notifica la primera cita conocida de reproducción de martinete común Nycticorax nycticorax (Linnaeus, 1758) en la provincia de Gipuzkoa. En julio de 2023 se observaron dos individuos juveniles aún no totalmente desarrollados en el Parque Ecológico de ...
Alberto Luengo, Mikel Etxaniz
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Monitoring of some species of colonial nesting Ardeidae at Lake Trasimeno (Central Italy).
Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2012 During 1993-2010 we have monitored at Lake Trasimeno the population of colonial nesting herons, with the exception of Ardea purpurea. Two distinct heronries have been found, placed 9 km away from each other and composed of the following species ...
Francesco Velatta +3 more
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