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Game Birds: The Ethics of Shooting Birds for Sport
... game birds are reared in conditions that promote their welfare then it is likely that they will live lives in which their needs and interests are taken into account (apart from their interest in life of ...the ...
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Myth and Trivia: The double encoding of the Irish representations in the novel At Swim-Two-Birds
... The severe mocking of the legendary myths, blaming the story-teller, implies a distrust in the messenger of the origins, of the story-teller, the one who, we might say, is responsible for the communication and passing on ...
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The Flight of Birds
... In normal fast flight there is no backward movement of the tip, which traces out a simple waved track, and in birds with a slow wing beat it is possible to see a drop in body speed durin[r] ...
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The Flight of Birds
... The complete apparatus may conveniently be subdivided into the following sections: switching system, trigger unit, power unit, camera, camera and switch drive, lamp circuits.. To trigger[r] ...
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List of the birds of Tasmania
... leracidea, Gould, herigora, Vigors and Horsf.. NovB HollandicB, Gould.[r] ...
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Note on the birds of Tasmania
... If we compare the number of the members of the various families and orders given in the list with those inhabiting the continent, we see at a glance how far the Australian avifauna is re[r] ...
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Study on Bird Flu Infection Process within a Poultry Farm with Effects of Spatial Diffusion
... Bird flu is a highly infectious and fatal disease for domestic birds. The disease is caused by virus types H5N1 carried by wild birds such as wild ducks. Most highly pathogenic strain (H5N1) has been ...
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Diversity of bird community in Hohhot
... summer birds composed basically stable. Feeding habits of most birds have obvious changes, basic food grain-eating birds and omnivorous birds to animal food, one of the reasons is the summer ...
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Response of Broiler Chickens under Dexamethasone Induced Stress Conditions
... Two hundred and forty days old Arbor acre broiler chicks were used in this experiment. They were randomly allotted to four experimental treatments. Each treatment was replicated three times with twenty birds per ...
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Magnetic orientation in birds
... If pigeons used magnetic map factors, their orientation should be affected at sites where local magnetic values deviate markedly from the general course of the magnetic field in the region. This prediction is supported ...
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Birds
... In the most recent review of Tasmanian birds, by Ridpath and Moreau 1966, the only species listed as common in this habitat are pipits Anthus novaeseelandiae and peregrine falcons Falco [r] ...
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Birds and people in Europe
... breeding birds in Europe to test this ...breeding birds in Europe relative to humans, with a median of just three individual birds per person, and 4 g of bird for every kilogram of ...
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Multispecies hybridization in birds
... Detecting introgression between multiple species is only one step in understanding the evolutionary his- tory of a hybridizing species group. To further explore the nature of introgressive hybridization, a modelling ...
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Heart rates and swim speeds of emperor penguins diving under sea ice
... Our objectives were to measure 1 cardiac output and stroke volume in resting birds; 2 heart rate in birds while resting and diving; and 3 swim velocities from the same birds under condit[r] ...
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Mycobacteriosis caused by Mycobacterium genavense in birds kept in a zoo: 11 year survey
... to 26, as listed in Table 2) were available for histopathologic evaluation; the numbers and kinds of specimens studied are given in Table 3, which shows the numbers of AFB, the amount of cellular exudates, and necrosis ...
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Regulatory mechanisms of metabolic flexibility in the dark eyed junco (Junco hyemalis)
... modules containing genes related to muscle development. Temperature-sensitive modules associated with thermogenic capacity were enriched for genes annotated with collagen (two in T28), myoblast proliferation (T22), ...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society for the month of June, 1896
... At the present time it is the custom in February and March to catch the old birds at night for consumption till the breeding season It is feared that many thousands of these parent birds[r] ...
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PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF AVIFAUNA FROM AGROFOREST ECOSYSTEM OF DEV TALAV, NAGBHID (MAHARASHTRA), INDIA
... of birds, Praveen et al., (2016). All individual sightings of birds from each transect were counted and bird species were ranked according to following abundance categories: 1 = rare (1 - 5 sightings), 2 = ...
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Long- term effects of previous experience determine nutrient discrimination abilities in birds
... omnivorous birds that consume insects and fruits, the latter being particularly important prior to and during migration as well as in the winter quarters ...Five birds were wild-caught prior to their ...
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Causes of mortality in laying hens in different housing systems in 2001 to 2004
... 000 birds) by several workers [16,34,39-42] in different countries and results from large-scale investigations comprising commercial laying hens in different housing systems have been reported from Germany [8,10], ...
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