Sentences with phrase «of avian life»

Camera - laden birdwatchers were enchanted by the vast variety of avian life.

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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 with.

They investigated life history data of nearly 1400 bird species and found that avian life span varies considerably across the entire Earth, and that much of this variation can be explained by the species» body mass and clutch size and by the local diversity of predator species.

Findings of the study gave been published in a paper entitled «Ground tit genome reveals avian adaptation to living at high altitudes in the Tibetan plateau» in the journal Nature Communications.

By studying avian bone fragments, James and husband Storrs Olson, both of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, have pieced together a picture of bird life before the first Polynesian settlers arrived sometime between a.d. 400 and 600.

However, in the other major avian branch (neognaths), which includes most species of living birds, it comes closer to the heel bone; that creates the impression it is a different structure, when it is actually the same.

Given the relatively minor differences between the second WGT and the TENT, together they corroborate the majority of relationships in the avian tree of life.

The estimated age for the basal split of Passeriformes, representing ~ 60 % of all living ~ 10,400 avian species, was around 39 Ma.

An alternative possibility is that the associations of ecology and / or life history are related to convergent exon - coding mutations for those traits in avian genomes (89, 90).

: An examination using the avian tree of life

The letter states that the pause potentially applies to six projects that range from studying the ecology of avian flu in live bird markets in Colombia to looking at drug - resistance mutations in seasonal influenza strains.

«After several decades working on the discovery of the avian Tree of Life, it is still amazing what we are discovering!

Last week, a judge in Verona dismissed a host of criminal charges against veterinary researcher and former politician Ilaria Capua, including allegations that she deliberately set off avian influenza outbreaks that also caused a human epidemic — a crime that would have been punishable with life imprisonment if proven.

Read previous Zoologger columns: Unmasking the Zorro of the avian world, The worm that looks like a tree, The bird that cares for its rival's chicks, Itsy bitsy teeny weeny chameleons, Don't bite — how the zebra got its stripes, The only males with more brain than females, How a blurry - eyed spider pounces on target, Gecko's amputated tail has life of its own, Unique life form is half plant, half animal, Transgender fish perform reverse sex flip, My brain's so big it spills into my legs, Dozy hamsters reverse the ageing process, To kill a mockingbird?

Differences between DNA's reveal evolutionary distances between species, making it possible to reconstruct and date the branchings of avian lineages and providing a basis for classifying living groups

In 2016, a colony of penguins living in Exmoor Zoo in the UK suddenly died after an outbreak of avian malaria, a parasitic disease spread by the bites of infected mosquitoes.

Effect of an Enterococcus faecium probiotic on specific IgA following live Salmonella Enteritidis vaccination of layer chickens — Breno C. B. Beirão — Avian Pathology

Importantly, by the end of the Mesozoic, the body plans and corresponding genetic developmental blueprints that define modern life forms were in place, although mammalian avian forms were still quite primitive.

The main inspiration for the film's bird attacks came from mysterious, real - life avian deaths occurring in the summer of 1961.

Avian affections and all, I, Tonya «s most colorful character comes in the form of Harding's abusive, foul - mouthed, booze - guzzling mother, LaVona Golden, whose penchant for fine fur and feathered friends comes to life with wicked conviction from a fearless Allison Janney.

People have lived with parrots and other avian companions for thousands of years.

Avian expert Leslie Sinn, DVM, CPDT - KA, will explain in depth how to provide a high quality of life for the birds in your shelter and foster homes.

The virus is almost identical to a strain of avian influenza virus reported in Asia and may have spread to dogs in live bird markets, said AVMA.

Kraft Mobile Veterinary Service provides preventive wellness, diagnostic, and surgical services for a number of avian species to help your bird live a long, happy life.

The Avian Welfare Coalition does not focus on taking away human rights, but on increasing human awareness and responsibility for the welfare of parrots living in captivity and the wild.

[1] And the trend couldn't be explained by the population of swallows living nearby (which increased over the study period), traffic volume (which «either did not change significantly or increased, depending on the metric used»), or the number of avian scavengers in the area («as none showed significant increases in our study area»).

The Avian Welfare Coalition wants to help you make sure you have made a plan for where your birds will live in the event of your death or disability.

This canine virus likely arose through the direct transfer of an avian influenza virus — possibly from among viruses circulating in live bird markets — to dogs.

When hundreds of cats in the New York City Animal Care and Control shelters tested positive for avian influenza last year, everyone involved set their only goal — saving the cats» lives.

We believe this is an opportunity for all of us to focus on the urgent task at hand — to provide essential services that will help unwanted, abandoned and abused birds in avian care and animal shelter facilities get their chance at a new life!

Over the years many species have shared their lives with Dr. Szucs, from rodent to avian and of course canine and feline.

Liz Wilson was a certified veterinary technician and certified parrot behavior consultant, and lived and working with parrots for over 40 years, with 20 years of experience as a veterinary technician specializing in avian and exotic animal nursing.

The life cycle begins when the eggs of the fluke Nanophyetus salmincola are released in the feces of the host mammal or avian.

Zoo Med Laboratories manufactures a wide range of high - quality small animal foods, including its newest items: Crested Gecko Food, which consists of a mixture of dried fruits and insects; Creatures Jelly Food Cups for insects and invertebrates; Avian Banquet Cuttlebone made with real cuttlebone powder and available in banana and tropical fruit flavors; and Can O» Cockroaches and Can O» Silkworms, which are designed to add variety to an animal's diet without having to keep live feeder insects.

Now it is up to retailers that sell birds and bird products to be sure that owners understand the importance of feeding a well - rounded diet to their pets, which means that employees should learn as much as possible about avian diets, healthy treats, and the trends that will allow a pet bird to live a long and healthy life.

Every beach has at least one of these tranquil, mangrove - studded waterways and we spoke with an American bird watching enthusiast who was pleased with the avian life seen on her adventures.

Note: live bird not included, but you're encouraged to strike up an avian friendship of your own.

A colorful array of avian portraits expressively rendered in gouache, graphite, and oil stick on handmade rag paper highlight the artist's life - long connection to orphaned and injured birds and her commitment to their rescue and rehabilitation.

KuzeyDoğa is also keeping tabs on the area's avian life, counting 39,140 birds of 81 species — the year's record in Turkey — at its research stations in Kars and Iğdır during World Birdwatching Day in early October.

I think that efforts to halt diseases such as avian flu are counterproductive, as they only lead to yet more excessive human population and merely delay the day of abrupt environmental collapse that will terminate more human life than saved by such efforts.

According to Google, I was the US Ambassador to South Vietnam in 1973, have a foundation dedicated to the preservation and restoration of natural ecosystems, live in Queensland, Australia, and am a professor of avian sensory science at the University of Birmingham in the UK, among other things.

For some, having to desist such practices because of concerns over avian flu could cause life to lose all meaning.

Aside from being named one of the best places to live and one of the safest municipalities, expert magazines have named the town as one of the best places to see avian wildlife and to walk your dog.