Conservation Letter: Raptor Persecution

Raptor Rehabilitation and Conservation in Minnesota

Minnesota contains many areas of good raptor breeding habitat. The open agricultural lands, hardwood forests, coniferous forests, wetlands and combinations of these habitats provide the diversity and productivity necessary to support many species of hawks, owls, and falcons as well as the Bald Eagle and the Osprey. Additionally, the fall and spring migrations funnel thousands of birds through t...

WARMING WINTERS AND CHANGING HABITATS: INTERACTIVE EFFECTS ON RAPTOR POPULATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION By

Studies of multiple taxa across broad-scales suggest that species distributions are shifting poleward in response to global climate change. Understanding the influence of distribution shifts on regional population indices will be an important part of interpreting population trends within local management units because, compared to a time when distribution were less dynamic, changes in populatio...

Habitat selection by Black kite breeders and floaters: Implications for conservation management of raptor floaters

Persecution of Christians in the New Testament

1 Basic context 2 Depictions in Luke-Acts 2.1 Status of the Church 2.2 Scribes and chief priests 2.3 Jerusalem Temple 2.4 Imprisonment of Peter and John 2.5 Role of Sadducees 2.6 Martyrdom of Stephen 2.7 Persecution in Damascus 2.8 Execution of James 2.9 Violence against Paul 2.10 Crowds in Corinth 2.11 Threats against Paul's life 2.12 Paul before a Sanhedrin 3 Elsewhere in the New Testament 3....

Summary of Raptor Codes

A fountain code produces for given set of k input symbols (x1, . . . , xk) a potentially limitless stream of output symbols z1, z2, . . .. The input and output symbols can be binary vectors of arbitrary length. Each output symbol is the sum of a randomly and independently chosen subset of the input symbols. Information describing the relations between input and output symbols is obtained at the...