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How Does Circadian Rhythm Shape Host-Parasite Associations? A Comparative Study on Infection Patterns in Diurnal and Nocturnal Raptors

open access: yesDiversity, 2021
Infection patterns of parasites, including their prevalence, diversity and host specificity, can be impacted by many biological and environmental factors, but no study has focused on the circadian rhythms of vertebrate hosts, which may affect ...
Kai Gao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diurnal raptors at rescue centres in the Czech Republic: Reasons for admission, outcomes, and length of stay.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Rescue centres play an important role in the protection of raptors living in the wild by caring for injured or debilitated animals and abandoned young with the aim of returning them to the wild.
Gabriela Kadlecova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and genetic diversity of Haemoproteus and Plasmodium in raptors from Thailand: Data from rehabilitation center

open access: yesInternational Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2021
The diurnal raptors (Family: Accipitridae and Falconidae) are important as ecosystem bioindicators. Unfortunately, the global number of these birds has fallen, and they are close to extinction.
Pornchai Pornpanom   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Annotated raptor codes [PDF]

open access: yes2011 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2011
In this paper, an extension of raptor codes is introduced which keeps all the desirable properties of raptor codes, including the linear complexity of encoding and decoding per information bit, unchanged. The new design, however, improves the performance in terms of the reception rate.
Kaveh Mahdaviani   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Relative Conservation Status of Bird Orders With Special Attention to Raptors

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Birds, especially raptors, play important roles in ecosystems. We examine the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List to determine which orders of birds have proportionally more or fewer species listed as threatened or ...
Christopher J. W. McClure   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intra- and inter-specific territorial response of diurnal raptors in the tropical dry forest of western Mexico

open access: yesHuitzil, 2023
Little is known of intra- and inter-specific territoriality in Neotropical raptors that may defend territories throughout the year, and face greater inter-specific competition for resources.
Abel Domínguez-Pompa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

High-Tech Training for Birds of Prey

open access: yesAnimals, 2021
Raptors are some of the most at-risk groups of birds in the world and saving these top predators is essential for maintaining the health of many ecosystems.
Giovanni Granati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Raptors, racing pigeons and perceptions of attacks

open access: yes, 2021
Raptors are often the cause of human-wildlife conflict because they may predate economically valuable species, and it is the perceived extent of predation that may augment conflict between raptors and people who keep and race pigeons.
Yarnell, Richard W   +7 more
core   +1 more source

A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Birds of prey, owls and falcons are widely used as sentinel species in raptor biomonitoring programmes. A major current challenge is to facilitate large-scale biomonitoring by coordinating contaminant monitoring activities and by building capacity across
Gomez-Ramirez, Pilar   +33 more
core   +5 more sources

Comparison of point and roadside transect methods to evaluate the abundance and richness of diurnal raptors in the arid region of Rajasthan

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Diurnal raptors show a wider distribution compared to other groups of birds including passerines, woodpeckers, and seriemas, but occur at lower-than-expected densities.
Govind Tiwari   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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