passerine birds
How does woody succession affect population densities of passerine birds in NewﾠZealand drylands?
... common passerine birds that we identified in New Zealand drylands (Walker et ...the birds we ...the birds we studied, feeding primarily by gleaning invertebrates from foliage (Gill ...
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Different meal, same flavor: cospeciation and host switching of haemosporidian parasites in some non passerine birds
... Ricklefs and Fallon [9] found that closely related haemo- sporidian parasites are conservatively distributed within host higher taxa, suggesting that codivergence or switch- ing among closely related hosts is a common ...
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Occurrence of Haemoproteus spp. (Haemosporida: Haemo-proteidae) in New Host Records of Passerine Birds from the East of Iran
... in passerine birds revealed this region might provide suita- ble sites for future studies on these parasites and the relationship with their hosts and vec- ...ornamental birds, and the probable high ...
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Transport of Babesia venatorum-infected Ixodes ricinus to Norway by northward migrating passerine birds
... 9,768 passerine birds on north- ward migration were caught with mist nets during the spring migrations of 2003, 2004 and ...The birds were examined for ticks around the eyes, beak and ear ...
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Field estimates of body drag coefficient on the basis of dives in passerine birds
... migrating passerine birds commencing rapid descents from their cruising ...The birds were tracked during their spring migration, and the dives probably represent the termination of migration flights ...
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Heterothermy in small, migrating passerine birds during stopover: use of hypothermia at rest accelerates fuel accumulation
... of birds fly in autumn from their breeding grounds in Eurasia to wintering grounds in Africa and return in spring, often covering many thousands of kilometers (Moreau, 1972; Biebach et ...small passerine ...
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Bergmann’s rule and Allen’s rule in two passerine birds in China
... and birds (Laiolo and Rolando 2001; VanderWerf 2012), but not in some cases (Wiedenfeld 1991; Bidau et ...in birds (Scott et ...help birds keep a constant tem- perature in colder environments, while ...
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De-novo emergence of SINE retroposons during the early evolution of passerine birds
... Presence/absence patterns of SINEs in orthologous genomic loci are rare genomic changes appreciated widely as virtually homoplasy-free phylogenetic markers [8, 9]. Given the aforementioned scarcity of SINEs, it is not ...
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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 ...
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A new approach to evaluate multimodal orientation behaviour of migratory passerine birds recorded in circular orientation cages
... that birds show breeding site fidelity, but also fidelity to intermediate stop-over sites and wintering sites ...migration, birds may show both prior and new migration route preferences when recorded in ...
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Associations of passerine birds, rabbits, and ticks with Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia andersonii in Michigan, U S A
... Comparison of our current results with our previ- ous report [36] of a minimum of 3.5, 3.1, and 20% B. burgdorferi infection prevalence in these bird ticks, rabbit ticks, and rabbit ears, respectively, confirms that ...
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Passerine Birds Breeding under Chronic Noise Experience Reduced Fitness
... The strength of our study is that it suggests direct fitness consequences of chronic noise in wild birds. Fitness is generally difficult to measure in wild populations but, by using an island population, we can be ...
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Patterns of Plasmodium homocircumflexum virulence in experimentally infected passerine birds
... ine birds, indicating broad specificity and potentially big invasive ability in regard to vertebrate host ...of birds, but markedly differently in different host species; how- ever, the reported differences ...
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Sperm competition and sperm midpiece size: no consistent pattern in passerine birds
... existed between sperm traits except head length and relative testis mass Table 1c... Effect sizes were large.[r] ...
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Consequences of Environmental Mercury Exposure for Migratory Fitness and Survival of Passerine Birds
... [THg] birds being lost between fall departure and spring return cohorts as elevated Hg body burden reduces migration performance and causes a high probability of ...migratory passerine species, I compared ...
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Effect of brood size manipulation on offspring physiology: an experiment with passerine birds
... The only enzyme showing a clear response to brood manipulation was HOAD. Individuals in the reduced broods had significantly higher cardiac HOAD activities, suggesting an increased capacity for oxidation of fatty acids. ...
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Managing populations of the Australasian harrier (Circus approximans) to reduce passerine bird damage in vineyards
... pest passerine birds, distance from the table/notional table, and activity type ...for birds caught within the net, or foraging on the ground, which may have not been detected from the count point, ...
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Park size and prey density limit occurrence of Eurasian Sparrowhawks in urban parks during winter
... small birds is believed to be the key driver for this bird-eating rap- tor species to settle in urban ...small passerine birds show particularly strong antipredator responses, sparrowhawks may not ...
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Wintering Grassland Bird Habitat Selection Following Summer Prescribed Fire in a Texas Gulf Coast Tallgrass Prairie
... grassland passerine birds in response to summer prescribed burning within a Texas gulf coast tallgrass prairie during 2001 and ...grassland birds partitioned the prairie mosaic along a gradient of ...
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Decorating an inadequate landscape : illustrating the acclimatisation of introduced bird species through wallpaper design : Master of Design thesis 2015
... the passerine birds I wanted to focus my designs ...the birds introduced for nostalgic reasons to relieve homesick ...observed passerine birds in the ...the birds had ...
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