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The status of vultures in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, central India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2015 The study on the status of vultures in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BRT), central India was carried out from January 2011 to March 2013 in different seasons using opportunistic sightings.
Balasubramaniam Navaneethan +3 more
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Factors influencing the global distribution of the endangered Egyptian vulture
Scientific Reports, 2021 Vultures are ecologically important primarily because of their scavenging role in cleaning carcasses of the environment. Because of anthropogenic impacts, the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) has suffered catastrophic declines in parts of its ...
S. Panthi, Shiva Pariyar, M. Low
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Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2020 Decline in vulture populations have seriously reported in Nigeria as in other habits around the world. Human pressure from poisoning, hunting and trading for traditional medicine are key factors leading to decline of vulture population in northern ...
N.D. Muhammad, Z.K. Mustapha
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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 2022 Diclofenac was responsible for the decimation of Gyps vulture species on the Indian subcontinent during the 1980s and 1990s. Gyps vultures are extremely sensitive (the lethal dose 50 [LD50] ~ 0.1 mg/kg – 0.2 mg/kg), with toxicity appearing to be linked ...
Sara Locke +3 more
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White-headed Vultures Trigonoceps occipitalis show visual field characteristics of hunting raptors [PDF]
, 2017 The visual fields of Aegypiinae vultures have been shown to be adapted primarily to meet two key perceptual challenges of their obligate carrion-feeding behaviour: scanning the ground and preventing the sun’s image falling upon the retina.
Fowler +17 more
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Пернатые хищники и их охрана, 2019 The article highlights new monitoring data on three vulture species: Cinereous Vulture (Aegypius monachus); Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) and Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) – on the territory of Ustyurt State Nature Reserve in Kazakhstan ...
Mark V. Pestov +3 more
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Ecologies, 2022 The information on the ranging behaviour and migration pattern of vultures is of critical conservation importance. Vultures’ range over vast areas in human-dominated landscapes where anthropogenic activities may influence their long-term survival.
Mohan Ram +6 more
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A Strategy for Conserving Old World Vulture Populations in the Framework of One Health
The Journal of raptor research, 2021 . One Health brings the powerful interrelationship between human and wildlife health together with ecosystem health. The initial concept of One Health was formulated decades ago and focused on disease transfer from wildlife to human populations.
M. Ottinger +14 more
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Monostatic and Bistatic Radar Measurements of Birds and Micro-drone [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyses the experimental results from recent monostatic and bistatic radar measurements of multiple birds as well as a quadcopter micro-drone. The radar system deployed for these measurements was the UCL developed NetRAD system.
Fioranelli, Francesco +3 more
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Relative Conservation Status of Bird Orders With Special Attention to Raptors
Frontiers 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
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