Sentences with phrase «other avian»

The company must implement a migratory bird compliance plan containing specific measures to avoid and minimize golden eagle and other avian wildlife mortalities at company's four commercial wind projects in Wyoming.

Domestic and feral may kill hundreds of millions of songbirds and other avian species every year, roughly 39 million birds annually.

We also see a large amount of other avian species like chickens, ducks and geese.

These results clearly demonstrated that dogs reacting to chicken are not always intolerant of other avian meats and vice versa.

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

You'd be forgiven for thinking that a game called Flirty Birdys was a shameless rip - off designed to cash - in on the popularity of Angry Birds or Flappy Bird or one of the other avian - stuffed titles on the App Store.

The partnerships and insights gained through our flagship project's progress has set the stage for rapid developments for Heath Hen de-extinction and discussions for building other avian projects.

This might enable cuckoos to frighten other avian hosts into leaving their nests exposed.

Already accepted as different species by the British Ornithologists» Union, the American Ornithologists» Union and other avian taxonomic committees are yet to classify the bird of prey as separate species.

Authorities have culled more than 175,000 birds this winter to stamp out local outbreaks of H7N9 and other avian flu strains.

«Other avian scavengers are affected by this hazard, too,» explains Oliver Krone from the IZW.

«As in several other avian and mammalian species, we have found that melanic spotting in owls covaries with a variety of behavioral and physiological traits, many of which also have links to sleep, such as immune system function and energy regulation,» notes Alexander Roulin from the University of Lausanne.

They found that like other avian influenza viruses, the H7N9 viruses attached more strongly to lower parts of the human respiratory tract than to upper parts.

However, compared to other avian influenza viruses, the attachment to epithelial cells by H7N9 in the bronchioles and alveoli of the lung was more abundant and the viruses attached to a broader range of cell types.

Chicken intelligence is therefore unnecessarily underestimated and overshadowed by other avian groups.

So you could no longer hear the birdcalls of the manakins and other avian species you'd been studying.

To assess condor's prospects in Northern California, Chris West of the Yurok Tribe Wildlife Program and his colleagues trapped two other avian scavengers, Turkey Vultures and Common Ravens, at nine sites in the region between 2009 and 2013.

Not exact matches

One site manager suggested it might be because of a fear of avian flu, but others said that it was more a problem of availability.

Take an Eyes of the Wild pontoon boat tour or join the Heron Days boat tours this spring (usually April or May), where the local Audubon Society points out Great Blue Herons and other amazing avians.

Herculano - Houzel hopes that the results of the study and the questions it raises will stimulate other neuroscientists to begin exploring the mysteries of the avian brain, especially how their behavior compares to that of mammals of similar numbers of neurons or brain size.

This helps explain why some avian dinosaurs lived and others died.

Another scenario envisioned by scientists has avian and mammalian flu strains mixing in some other species, perhaps pigs.

«The beak is a crucial part of the avian feeding apparatus, and is the component of the avian skeleton that has perhaps diversified most extensively and most radically — consider flamingos, parrots, hawks, pelicans, and hummingbirds, among others,» Bhullar explained.

Not to worry though, because what chance is there that our scientific study results could even be related to foreign relations, other than, you know, research on global warming or acid rain or fish populations or avian - flu transmission or mad - cow - disease transmission, or ozone depletion or....

Others are Ebola in Africa, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in North America, Venezuelan equine encephalitis in South America, Hendra disease in Australia, and lethal avian flu in Asia.

On other Hawaiian islands, only high - elevation areas have generally been cool enough to keep out the mosquitoes that spread avian diseases.

Fukuda notes that avian flu has been just as severe and difficult to control in other affected countries, such as Egypt, where a spate of human cases this year has drawn international concern.

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.

Though most insects are content eating plants or other bugs, the mantis has acquired a taste for avian gray matter, The New York Times reports.

Investigators found four other incidents in the past decade when deadly pathogens were mishandled, including an event in March when a sample of the avian flu strain H5N1 was contaminated with a more lethal strain and accidentally shipped to a USDA lab without proper protections.

«It's a conundrum when you think about it, killing one native species to help others... but today it's become necessary to do so,» says Blaine Parker, avian predation coordinator for Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, which represents four Native American tribes with fishing rights along the river.

It was sparked by ongoing worries about experiments in which researchers modify H5N1 bird flu and other deadly avian strains to learn what mutations might help them to spread among humans.

But songbirds aren't the only reason birds are so varied and interesting: Bursts of new species appeared among island birds, waterfowl, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, and gulls, among others, at various times during avian evolution, researchers report online today in Nature.

Professor Griffin and the other leaders of the research team — Kent colleague Dr Michael Romanov as well as Dr Denis Larkin and Dr Marta Farré from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London — studied data from a total of 21 avian genomes and one reptile species.

In additional experiments, the scientists found that participants who had significant antibody responses did not necessarily also have significant immune system T cell responses to avian viruses, indicating that these two arms of immunity can be independently boosted after vaccination or infection; that individuals who reported receiving seasonal influenza vaccination had significantly higher antibodies to the avian H4, H5, H6, and H8 subtypes; and that participants with exposure to poultry had significantly higher antibody responses to the H7 subtype, but to none of the other subtypes tested.

The potential public health implication of this observation is that a person infected by H7N9 avian influenza virus who does not show symptoms could nevertheless spread the virus to others.

Avian flu (also «bird flu», «avian influenza», «bird influenza»), means «flu from viruses adapted to birds», but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets (such as H5N1 flu) or the viruses that cause them (such as HAvian flu (also «bird flu», «avian influenza», «bird influenza»), means «flu from viruses adapted to birds», but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets (such as H5N1 flu) or the viruses that cause them (such as Havian influenza», «bird influenza»), means «flu from viruses adapted to birds», but is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to both other flu subsets (such as H5N1 flu) or the viruses that cause them (such as H5N1).

Fischetti notes that this technology could potentially be used to prevent pandemics during an avian or other flu outbreak by destroying secondary germs that might attack when the immune system is compromised.

The accusation that Capua and others set off a human epidemic made no sense, she said, because one mild flu case does not constitute an epidemic; moreover, the avian virus she allegedly spread was a different strain than the one that killed the birds in Italy.

The original H5N8 avian influenza strain was first found in South Korea in 2014 and subsequently in other Asian countries, including China and Japan, before spreading to Europe.

These include two flagship papers: one exploiting genomic - scale data to generate a highly supported avian order phylogeny that resolves many debates on the timing and topology of their radiation; the other a comparative genomic analysis exploring avian genome evolution and the genetic basis of complex traits.

Researchers interested in bird behavior have tended to focus on their flashy mating displays, melodious songs, and other talents, leaving the avian sense of smell largely unexplored.

The international group of researchers analyzed the genomes of 48 avian species that represent the evolutionary history of modern birds and compared them to many other vertebrates to find DNA sequences specific to avians.

Most avian influenza experts believe the virus is spread primarily by trading in domestic poultry and the movement of crates and trucks unknowingly carrying contaminated droppings or other materials.

Tohoku University researchers and their international collaborators compared the genomes of 48 avian species with other vertebrates to identify genetic sequences specific only to birds.

Other articulators involved in avian vocal tract filtering include beak movements and gape widths (Hoese et al., 2000; Podos et al., 2004; Nelson et al., 2005).

Rao has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and other international agencies and has contributed to policies on epidemics like AIDS, avian influenza and swine flu.

Sadly, this isn't the only time that avian malaria has struck, and several other zoos in the UK have lost animals to the disease.

... Thus, acknowledging that the aims of the voluntary moratorium have been met in some countries and are close to being met in others, we declare an end to the voluntary moratorium on avian flu transmission studies.

It is equally important, however, that scientific knowledge is allowed to progress if we are to optimise preparedness for potential outbreaks of avian flu and other pathogens.