long distance flying birds
Lack of identification of Flaviviruses in oral and cloacal swabs from long and short distance migratory birds in Trentino Alto Adige (North eastern Italy)
... Migratory birds annu- ally undertake journeys, principally in spring and autumn, from their reproductive territory to where they will spend the winter (overwintering grounds) and ...are long-distance ...
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Nathusius' bats optimize long distance migration by flying at maximum range speed
... from wind tunnel experiments and flight speed measured in the field is due to the possibility that bats searched for insects en route. On the one hand, this is supported by the fact that insectivorous bats, in contrast ...
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Metabolic constraints on long distance migration in birds
... Despite painstaking and highly praiseworthy work conducted by physiologists on flying birds (e.g. Tucker, 1966, 1968; Berger et al. 1971; Bernstein et al. 1973; Butler et al. 1977; Torre-Bueno 1978; Rothe ...
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Fuel use and metabolic response to endurance exercise: a wind tunnel study of a long distance migrant shorebird
... in flying homing pigeons, which have higher plasma β-hydroxybutyrate levels than fasting resting pigeons, or in fasting exercising humans, who show a return to stable pre-exercise levels after an initial decrease ...
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Protein loss during long distance migratory flight in passerine birds: adaptation and constraint
... non-moulting birds is determined mainly by total body mass and breast muscle size (Pennycuick, ...so birds could minimise their total energy expenditure by reducing their breast muscle ...knots ...
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Research on the Long distance Transmission
... Fractional Frequency Transmission Technology In traditional power transfer process, generally used to change the voltage level of the way to achieve longdistance and large-capacity trans[r] ...
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Restoring forest landscapes for nature conservation and human well-being: Advanced spatial decision support tools
... Natural regeneration potential Distance from natural forest; distance from protected areas; distance to seed sources; growth potential; number of birds; number of seed trees and shrubs[r] ...
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Short Communication: Optimisation of the Flight Speed of the Little, Common And Sandwich Tern
... There were sufficient data for the sandwich terns to show significant regression between airspeed and wind effect for those birds flying only 12° from the wind direction; again this line[r] ...
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Adjustments of wingbeat frequency and air speed to air density in free flying migratory birds
... smaller birds, because water loss and costs of climbing are expected to increase with size (Hedenström and Alerstam, 1992; Klaassen et ...large birds at lower than at higher air ...
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A Long Low Whistle in the Distance
... Maddie’s my girlfriend. I met her in Phoenix my first year out. She had this camera and she kept trying to take my picture, but I wouldn’t let her. I told her that every picture steals a little bit of your soul. She said ...
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The bird and the mountains: a note on Psalm 11
... fluttering birds pushed from a nest after a pronouncement of doom in chapter ...as birds; Lam 3:52 refers to enemies hunting the speaker “like a bird”, while Ezek 7:16 refers to survivors on the mountains ...
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Antibody responses to avian influenza viruses in wild birds broaden with age
... of birds is exposed to AIV each year, but younger birds are less likely to form long-term immune memory to the strains than older ...that birds appear to undergo immune-senescence as they age ...
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Lipid mobilization of long distance migrant birds in vivo: the high lipolytic rate of ruff sandpipers is not stimulated during shivering
... This study provides the first in vivo measurements of lipolysis in long-distance migrant birds. It shows that resting ruff sandpipers match the highest capacity to mobilize lipid reserves measured to ...
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Modeling of Long Distance Context Dependency
... the long distance-dependent word pairs in the MI-Trigram model increase from 0 to 800,000, and then rise ...the long distance context dependency and should be included in the MI-Ngram ...0 ...
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Long Distance Pronominalisation and Global Focus
... First of all, G & S propose a distinction between two components of the attentional state: the GLOBAL FOCUS, structured as a stack of focus spaces and accessed to interpret definite desc[r] ...
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Multi Element Long Distance Dependencies: Using SPk Languages to Explore the Characteristics of Long Distance Dependencies
... Long Distance Dependencies (LDDs) describe an interaction between two (or more) elements in a sequence that are separated by an arbitrary num- ber of ...spatial distance between ...
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STRUCTURAL AND METABOLIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE MUSCLES USED TO POWER RUNNING IN THE EMU (DROMAIUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE), A GIANT FLIGHTLESS BIRD
... of flying, swimming and diving birds possess both slow-oxidative and fast fibres (Kruger and Gunther, 1958; Cracraft, 1971; Talesara and Goldspink, 1978; McGowan, 1979; Narang and Talesara, 1979; Maier, ...
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Odor localization requires visual feedback during free flight in Drosophila melanogaster
... and distance flown between ...the distance flown between saccades ...collision distance along the current heading determined segment length whereas the angle of approach to the oncoming arena wall ...
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Long-term changes in the abundance of flying insects
... survive long after mating (Freeman & Lane, ...by birds searching for the larvae, than by the larvae themselves (Edwards, 1941; D’Arcy-Burt & Blackshaw, ...
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