Sentences with phrase «avian birds»

Sales of the startup's eggless mayo boomed during 2015's avian bird flu epidemic — an incident that revealed much about the fragile nature of Earth's reliance on animals for food.

The risk to the public from the outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of avian bird flu in Suffolk is «negligible», environment secretary David Miliband has insisted.

In February, a group of neuroscientists who call themselves the Avian Bird Nomenclature Consortium publicized a whole new scientific lexicon to account for the growing body of evidence that birds are a lot smarter than some thought.

Breakdowns in water supplies, large numbers of climate refugees, and violent conflicts over diminishing resources could easily create a repeat of the 1918 flu epidemic or something similar — an outbreak of drug - resistant TB or a drug - resistant human strain of avian bird flu.

But glow - in - the - dark features aren't the traits these birds are being breed for, but rather the ability to help fight the spread of avian bird flu.

Not exact matches

«A real bird's eye video,» said Lukas Karasek, the Slovakian whose GoPro camera was briefly carried off by this ambitious avian.

«Bird flu» - H5N1 highly pathogenic Asian avian influenza - is a severe disease of birds.

Since its 1861 discovery in Bavaria, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, most scientists have placed Archaeopteryx at the root of the broad group of proto - birds, known as Avialae, from which our avian feathered friends emerged.

The single - parent lifestyle has never been a popular option among bird species» the vast majority of avian species have some form of two - parent support system.

K.B. logically explained that wild birds ingest these little rockets and spread the seed around by frequent aerial bombardment of avian excrement.

Poultry production and trade have resisted several episodes of bird flu (avian influenza) by diverting trade.

«With more than 30 species of warblers annually occurring in Massachusetts, these colorful avian sprites are consistently among the favorites among bird watchers everywhere,» Petersen said.

The Notebaert Goes to the Birds with New Birds of Paradise Exhibit - Third Coast Review - February 2, 2018 Just as Museum Week was kicking off in Chicago, the Notebaert was celebrating its 161st birthday and the opening of their newest special exhibit, Birds of Paradise — Amazing Avian Evolution, which includes an amazing live animal exhibit called The Bird House that features a rotating cast of local and exotic birds for visitors to meet, learn about and interact Birds with New Birds of Paradise Exhibit - Third Coast Review - February 2, 2018 Just as Museum Week was kicking off in Chicago, the Notebaert was celebrating its 161st birthday and the opening of their newest special exhibit, Birds of Paradise — Amazing Avian Evolution, which includes an amazing live animal exhibit called The Bird House that features a rotating cast of local and exotic birds for visitors to meet, learn about and interact Birds of Paradise Exhibit - Third Coast Review - February 2, 2018 Just as Museum Week was kicking off in Chicago, the Notebaert was celebrating its 161st birthday and the opening of their newest special exhibit, Birds of Paradise — Amazing Avian Evolution, which includes an amazing live animal exhibit called The Bird House that features a rotating cast of local and exotic birds for visitors to meet, learn about and interact Birds of Paradise — Amazing Avian Evolution, which includes an amazing live animal exhibit called The Bird House that features a rotating cast of local and exotic birds for visitors to meet, learn about and interact birds for visitors to meet, learn about and interact with.

Carving a bird - themed pumpkin can be a fun way to show your love of birds and enjoy Halloween decorations, and these stencils can help you create a perfect piece of autumn avian art.

He is past president of the Cape Cod Bird Club and current member of the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee.

Mass Audubon's Birders Meeting, the largest conference of its kind in New England, returns to the UMass Boston campus Sunday, March 11, when hundreds of birding enthusiasts will gather to hear the latest avian news from experts, learn more about specific species, and catch up with like - minded nature lovers they've met at previous Meetings.

The government promised to pay the farmers about GH cents 11 million as compensation for culling 111,000 birds during the Avian influenza (bird flu) outbreak two years ago.

As winter arrives and migratory birds return to the UK, the prospect of renewed outbreaks of avian influenza becomes a threat to shoots and estates

The Ogun State government Monday confirmed the outbreak of Avian Influenza otherwise known as bird flu in the state.

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has supervised the killing of over 40000 birds as part of measures to contain the spread of the Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).

«Officials of the state veterinary services took the sample of a bird's carcass to a research institute in Jos, where it was confirmed that the birds died from the H5NI strains of the Avian Influenza.

It has a characteristic muscle scar on the upper leg bone that is found only in the avian lineage of birds and dinosaurs and is missing in crocodiles and their relatives.

«Finally, it is pretty much accepted now that birds are avian dinosaurs.

If dinosaurs are reptiles, shouldn't birds be called avian reptiles?»

Of broader significance, Gary Graves of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History observed: «The avian microbiome is terra incognita but it is not unreasonable to suppose that the relationship between birds and their microbes has been as important in avian evolution as the development of powered flight and song.»

«The skeptics had to admit that dinosaurs were progenitors of birds because feathers are such a uniquely avian characteristic.

New project will collect DNA data from 10,560 bird species, but an even more ambitious avian effort waits in the wings

It is feared that if the avian influenza virus combines with a human influenza virus (in a bird or a human), the new subtype created could be both highly contagious and highly lethal in humans.

So even though some of the leaders of the 2014 avian tree effort launched B10K, a project aiming to eventually sequence the whole genomes of all 10,560 bird species and from there build «the grand tree,» some bird researchers decided not to wait.

They're not just found in mammals, which we knew, but in non-avian reptiles like alligators and avian reptiles, or birds,» Ragsdale said.

In February 2004, avian influenza virus was detected in birds in Vietnam, increasing fears of the emergence of new variant strains.

Although she acknowledges that the relationship between intelligence and neuron count has not yet been firmly established, Herculano - Houzel and her colleagues argue that avian brains with the same or greater forebrain neuron counts than primates with much larger brains can potentially provide the birds with much higher «cognitive power» per pound than mammals.

These phylogenies help researchers looking at the evolutionary histories of specific avian traits or the story of birds overall.

Killer birds brunch on bats» brains It sounds like the avian equivalent of an Ozzy Osbourne concert.

«This is borne out by the fact that Hesperonis — discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History — which is a near relative of modern birds that still retains teeth and the most primitive stem avian with a modernized beak in the form of fused, elongate premaxillae, also possesses a modern bird palatine bone,» he said.

Story number 3: Migratory birds appear to be the major cause of new cases in new regions of avian flu.

In bird eyes, suitable radicals are believed to be generated within cryptochrome, a light - absorbing protein that produces an as - yet - unidentified signaling molecule in a quantity determined by the field direction, resulting in an avian magnetic compass.

But unlike the pandemic strains of 1957 and 1968, which appear to have resulted from the direct mixing of avian and human flu strains, the 1918 strain doesn't seem to have jumped directly from birds to humans.

All of which means that story number 3 about migratory birds being the major cause of the spread of avian flu is TOTALL... Y BOGUS.

A less bird - obsessed man might have quailed, but Prum re-emerged with a string of discoveries that have reshaped the field's understanding of such fundamental questions as what feathers are for and how mating rituals drive avian evolution.

The team, including one of Giesy's former post docs, exotoxicologist and avian ecologist Miguel Mora of Texas A&M University, collected samples from the droppings of 108 cranes, including 22 wild birds.

More than 100 species of wild waterfowl have been identified as natural, usually asymptomatic hosts of a variety of avian influenza A (bird flu) subtypes.

Take us through, for example, H5N1, avian influenza A, commonly known as bird flu, which has been a problem particularly in Asia for the past decade.

The branches of the avian family tree occupied by perching birds, including songbirds, are bristling with expert impersonators.

A strain of bird flu that has sickened 132 people and killed 37 in China this year may have more potential to spread worldwide than the dreaded H5N1 avian influenza does.

The new flu, known as H7N9 avian influenza, latches onto sugars that coat bird cells — and it can cling to sugars on human cells too, Yuelong Shu of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues...

Clayton borrowed elements from tango and then added some moves based on avian sexual selection; as reference, she showed the Rambert dancers video of the mating ritual of birds of paradise.

The prominent zigzag route, which causes some terns to travel as far as 50,000 miles, is not a case of avian indecisiveness — the birds are actually conserving energy by following prevailing wind patterns.

The current H5N1 strain is a fast - mutating, highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) found in multiple bird species.

He also studies avian monitoring and management techniques, with a focus on rare and elusive wetland birds.