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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
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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
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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
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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
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Relative Conservation Status of Bird Orders With Special Attention to Raptors
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
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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
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High-Tech Training for Birds of Prey
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
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Raptors, racing pigeons and perceptions of attacks
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
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A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors [PDF]
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
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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
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