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Booking.com®: a fake mega arboreal termitaria as an unusual nesting site for the Peach-fronted parakeet, Eupsittula aurea (Psittacidae)

open access: yesBiotemas, 2016
Urban areas turn natural landscapes into challenging habitats for many species, by eliminating and/or replacing native resources, such as natural cavities for hollow-nesting species.
Franco Leandro Souza
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Research based criteria for the design and selection of literacy and thinking tools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper describes criteria for the design and selection of literacy and thinking tools. The criteria are that tools should be: (i) teaching focused (ii) learner focused, (iii) thought linked (iv) neurologically consistent, (v) subject specific, (vi ...
Whitehead, David
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Florida's Introduced Birds: Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus)

open access: yesEDIS, 2009
WEC-257, a 6-page illustrated fact sheet by Steve A. Johnson and Sam Logue, introduces this small to medium-sized member of the parrot family that has become an established non-native bird in Florida — species description, similar species, native range ...
Steve A. Johnson, Sam Logue
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“Kill Two Birds with One Stone”: Urban Tree Species Classification Using Bi-Temporal Pléiades Images to Study Nesting Preferences of an Invasive Bird

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2017
This study presents the results of object-based classifications assessing the potential of bi-temporal Pléiades images for mapping broadleaf and coniferous tree species potentially used by the ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri for nesting in the ...
Marine Le Louarn   +3 more
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Richness, composition and detectability of Psittacidae (Aves) in three palm swamps of the Cerrado sensu lato in central Brazil Riqueza, composición y detectabilidad de los Psittacidae (Aves) en tres pantanos del Cerrado sensu lato en el Brasil central

open access: yesRevista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2012
The objectives of this study were: (1) to investigate the richness and composition of the Psittacidae in palm swamps; (2) to determine if the sizes of flocks vary seasonally; (3) to compare detectability rates according to species.
PATRÍSIA O RODRIGUES   +2 more
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First photographic record of Red-breasted Parakeet Psittacula alexandri (Linnaeus, 1758) (Psittaciformes: Psittaculidae) from Haryana state in India

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology
Haryana is a state in northern India, situated in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The single female individual of Red-breasted Parakeet Psittacula alexandri was observed on 23 November 2023 in the Kurukshetra University Campus, and its observation was ...
Aruna Yadav   +5 more
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The relationship between the feather tuft of the uropygial gland and terrestrial/aquatic birds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The bird´s uropygial gland has a papilla in its caudal end and it can also show a feather tuft. These feathers may have a raquis or not. The purpose of our study was to compare the number, dimensions and types of the tuft´s feathers in aquatic and ...
Chiale, Maria Cecilia, Montalti, Diego
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Parasitic survey on introduced monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) in Santiago, Chile

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária
Central Chile has been identified as a unique ecosystem with high conservation priority because of its high levels of endemism and intensive anthropic pressure.
Cristóbal Briceño   +4 more
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Aggression heuristics underlie animal dominance hierarchies and provide evidence of group-level social information

open access: yes, 2020
Members of a social species need to make appropriate decisions about who, how, and when to interact with others in their group. However, it has been difficult for researchers to detect the inputs to these decisions and, in particular, how much ...
DeDeo, Simon   +2 more
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State and Not-For-Profit delivery of species conservation. Cost utility analysis of multiple-species projects. [PDF]

open access: yes
Conservation of species is challenging, and there is continuing interest in finding more effective means to achieve conservation goals. State provision of conservation occurs in many countries, alongside a growing range of alternative providers including
Cullen, Ross   +2 more
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