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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Soil microorganisms and free-living nematodes were investigated in association with the nesting and roosting habitats of the following piscivorous and omnivorous colonial birds: black kite (Milvus migrans), great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), black ...
Stanislav Pen-Mouratov, Tamar Dayan
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Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, 2023 Bolbophorus damnificus is a digenetic trematode causing significant economic losses within the United States commercial catfish industry. The indirect life cycle is complex, requiring piscivorous birds, aquatic snails, and fish to complete.
Bradley M. Richardson +6 more
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Survey of some wild birds and their feeding habits in three types at Assiut governorate, Egypt [PDF]
Archives of Agriculture Sciences Journal, 2020 The habitat is important for living organisms in terms of food and shelter that it provides. To understand the impact of anthropogenic pressure on the feeding habits of the birds, one-year survey was conducted in three old areas at Assiut governorate ...
M. Omar
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Fauna Norvegica, 2021 The helminth fauna of brown trout (Salmo trutta) in the Norwegian subalpine lake, Øvre Heimdalsvatn was studied by examination of gills, eyes, body cavity, kidney, stomach, pyloric region and intestine in a total of 112 brown trout randomly sampled in ...
Reidar Borgstrøm +3 more
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The energetic cost of mounting an immune response for Pallas’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The acute phase response (APR) is the first line of defense of the vertebrate immune system against pathogens. Mounting an immune response is believed to be energetically costly but direct measures of metabolic rate during immune challenges contradict ...
Lucia V. Cabrera-Martínez +2 more
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Impact of estuarine fronts on the dispersal of piscivorous birds in the German Bight [PDF]
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2001 ABSTRACT: Survey data on seabird distribution at sea, hydrographic data and optical satellite datacollected for the German Bight were used to analyse the variability of the distribution of wintering red-throated diver and black-throated diver Gavia stellata / arctica in relation to oscillations of the JutlandCoastal Current (JCC) and associated surface
H Skov, E Prins
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New specimens of Yanornis indicate a piscivorous diet and modern alimentary canal.
PLoS ONE, 2014 A crop adapted for an herbivorous diet of seeds has previously been documented in the Early Cretaceous birds Sapeornis and Hongshanornis. Here we report on several specimens of Yanornis that preserve a crop containing fish.
Xiaoting Zheng +6 more
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Piscivorous Bird Use of Aquaculture and Natural Water Bodies in Mississippi
The Journal of Wildlife Management, 2020 ABSTRACTDouble‐crested cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) and great egrets (Ardea alba) have an extensive history of human‐wildlife conflict with the aquaculture industry of western Mississippi, USA, due to their depredation of cultured catfish (Ictalurus spp.).
Paul C. Burr +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Animals under managed care in zoos and aquariums are ideal surrogate study subjects for endangered species that are difficult to obtain in the wild. We compared the fecal and oral microbiomes of healthy, managed African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) to ...
Ana G. Clavere Graciette +4 more
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Journal of Advanced Biotechnology and Experimental Therapeutics, 2020 This investigation was carried out to observe the migration status and the feeding guild of the avian fauna including the relative diversity of Jaipurhat District of Bangladesh. Data were collected from November 2017 to October 2019.
Al Amin +5 more
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