Raptors and owls
Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe (EURAPMON)
... of Raptors and Owls in Europe (MEROS) and the Raptor Research Foundation’s ‘Eurasian Raptor Monitoring Scheme’ (which focuses on migratory species) – these do not add up to an integrated European-scale ...
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Raptor genomes reveal evolutionary signatures of predatory and nocturnal lifestyles
... 12 raptors (five owls, six accipitrids, and a falconid) and four non-raptor birds (Additional file 1: Tables S11, S13, S14, and S15), most of which were sequenced for the first ...additional raptors ...
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Parental care by lone male Ferruginous Hawks ( Buteo regalis ), Rough-legged Hawks ( Buteo lagopus ), and Great Horned Owls ( Bubo virginianus ) was limited to providing food
... R-2: On 8 august 2005, a visit to a Rough-legged Hawk nest on the Barrier islands, Rankin inlet, revealed only an adult male present. the female parent was not recorded at the territory during the visit, which lasted ...
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Diversity and Abundance of Birds of Prey and Owls in Four selected Areas in South Western Nigeria
... Data were collected for six months three months in the dry season (November, February and March) and three months in the wet season (June, August and September) in 2015. The “Timed Species Count (TSC)” method developed ...
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Some Observations of Short-eared Owl, Asio flammeus , Ecology on Arctic Tundra, Yukon, Canada
... studied raptors at Point Barrow on the Arctic Coastal Plain in Alaska, and they found that Short-eared Owls nested only when Brown Lemmings ( Lemmus trimucronatus) were at cyclic high ...Short-eared ...
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Evaluating the feeding preferences of West Nile virus mosquito vectors using bird baited traps
... nocturnal raptors (Strigiformes) displaying weak mosquito dislodging ...of owls show the reverse cycle, with the highest body temperatures at night, synchronous to peaks of mosquito activity ...
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Factors influencing diet, reproductive success and road mortality in the Barn Owl (Tyto Alba)
... Barn Owls cannot hunt over the sea and despite being recorded to occasionally prey on frogs (Hodara & Poggio, 2016), they do not use freshwater habitats as a regular hunting ...urban owls are becoming ...
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The Diet of the Eastern Screech-Owl, Megascops asio , at the Northern Periphery of its Range
... Screech-owls consumed more invertebrates in rural areas than suburbs, as in Texas during the breeding season (Gehlbach 1994). On the contrary, Burrowing Owls ( Athene cunicularia ) consume more aerial in- ...
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Avian thermoregulation in the heat: metabolism, evaporative cooling and gular flutter in two small owls
... Large owls such as great horned owls (B. virginianus) and barn owls (Tyto alba) are known to use both gular flutter and panting simultaneously as T a exceeds T b (Bartholomew et ...
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ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RISK AND EXPOSURE: A COMPARISON OF WESTERN BURROWING OWLS NESTING IN AGRICULTURAL AND NON-AGRICULTURAL AREAS IN THE MORLEY NELSON SNAKE RIVER BIRDS OF PREY NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA
... when owls were migrating, on their wintering grounds, or ...that owls that breed in the NCA migrate south for winter, and some have been relocated in regions of southern California where other studies ...
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Estimating patch occupancy when patches are incompletely surveyed
... We carried out such a survey to test a barred owl (Strix varia) habitat model (Rubino and Hess 2003). We visited a sample of patches delineated by the habitat model. To investigate errors of omission in the habitat ...
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Spatial, Roadway, and Biotic Factors Associated with Barn Owl (Tyto alba) Mortality and Characteristics of Mortality Hotspots Along Interstates 84 and 86 in Idaho
... barn owls in southern Idaho is unknown, and their behavior near roads remains largely unstudied ...barn owls indicates that they do not avoid roads (Grilo et ...barn owls were still plentiful near ...
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[O921.Ebook] Free Ebook The Shattering Guardians Of Gahoole Book 5 By Kathryn Lasky.pdf
... Words take flight in this fifth installment in the Ga'Hoole series. . . Pamela Garelick captures the essential qualities of owls with fluttery, quavering tones. Balancing the high voices of the female owls, ...
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On Numerical Solutions of Fractional-Order with a Delay of CSOH Model
... bran owls, while c denote the enter rate of squirrel hunters, γ is the predation rate of the squirrels, µ is the harvesting rate of the coconut yields, ω is the coconut carrying capacity rate, λ is the conversion ...
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Effects of temperature and concentration on mechanism and kinetics of thermally induced deposition from coffee extracts
... 258 Deposition at ambient temperature 259 A typical result of the OWLS measurement is shown in Figure 1 in terms of mass deposited 260 during a primary exposure of two waveguides, the si[r] ...
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Is pre-breeding prospecting behaviour affected by snow cover in the irruptive snowy owl? A test using state-space modelling and environmental data annotated via Movebank
... snowy owls to assess whether searching behaviour for breeding sites was affected by snow cover and depth in an arctic predator that shows a lack of breeding site ...snowy owls constantly switched from ...
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Larks, owls, swifts, and woodcocks among fruit flies: differential responses of four heritable chronotypes to long and hot summer days
... The strain F30, representing “owls” (late morning and eve- ning activity peaks), was different from African strains (G10 and G15) but similar to U28 in the ability to keep a rather high level of activity in the ...
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In flight corrections in free flying barn owls (Tyto alba) during sound localization tasks
... barn owls, mammals use interaural time differences (ITD) and interaural level differences (ILD) for localization in the horizontal plane, and spectral shapes for localization in the vertical plane (Tollin and Yin, ...
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Winter diet of the long-eared owl Asio otus (Strigiformes: Strigidae) in the grasslands of Janos, Chihuahua, Mexico
... The long-eared owl is a Holarctic species, distributed on the temperate regions of North America, Europe and Asia [1, 2]. It inhabits dense vegetation, such as forests, riparian woodlands, and shrublands next to open ...
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Flexural stiffness of feather shafts: geometry rules over material properties
... Barn owls fly slowly over vegetation while searching for prey (Mebs and Scherzinger, 2000; Taylor, ...barn owls perform flight maneuvers by acceleration and deceleration with tight turning radii (Brand and ...
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