The Great Bustard (Otis tarda, Linneaus 1758) is a bird species categorized as “Least Concern” in Europe and “Vulnerable” the world by IUCN listed both CITES Bern Convention Annex II. According to latest estimates, Turkey’s population makes up only 1-2% of global population, which represented 44.000-57.000 individuals. This study was carried out 7 different locations Eskişehir, Kütahya, Afyonka...

Low pathogenic avian influenza virus can mutate to a highly pathogenic strain that causes severe clinical signs in birds and humans. Migratory waterfowl, especially ducks, are considered the main hosts of low pathogenic avian influenza virus, but the role of geese in dispersing the virus over long-distances is still unclear. We collected throat and cloaca samples from three goose species, Bean ...

the present study was performed during spring, summer and fall of 1997 in the central and western parts of fars province, iran, led to identification of paederus ilsae bernhauer and paederus iliensis coiffait (col: staphylinidae). this is the first original report of the latter species from iran. the adults have 5 months activity in average, begin lately in april and then continue until early s...

for this volume to have included at least one study on that population, for the reasons stated above. To be fair, the two chapters focused on political communication and SNS usage both had older study populations, but that might also be a reflection of the type of activity being studied. Overall, this volume offers a carefully chosen selection of scholarship from some of the leading researchers...

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C Influences of fishery activities on herring gulls and great black-backed gulls (Larus argentatus, L. mannus) wintering on the island of Helgoland, south-eastern North Sea, were studied When cod flshery discards were available close to the island. 83 to 87 % of the gulls' pellets contained fishery discard remains and 70 to 73 % of all pellets consisted exclusively of these. At times when no ne...

The objectives of this study were to describe and evaluate potential drivers of genetic structure in Canadian breeding populations of the Ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla. We performed genetic analyses on feather samples of individuals from six study sites using nuclear microsatellites. We also assessed species identity and population genetic structure of quill mites (Acariformes, Syringophilidae)...

As colony-specific wintering ecology of small and medium-sized seabirds is poorly understood, it has been generally assumed that winter conditions have the same effect on all individuals from any given colony. However, advances in global positioning technology now allow researchers to investigate movements of smaller seabirds. We tracked black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla using geolocator...