White stork, Ciconia ciconia, chicks were observed to abandon their natal nests prior to independence and to be adopted by neighbouring foster parents in approximately 40% of broods at three breeding colonies. Nest switching coincided with a decrease in feeding rates by parents and an increase in aggression by siblings triggered by the flight exercises of nestmates, and mainly affected the elde...

In 1980 the State of Connecticut began a tidal marsh restoration program targeting systems degraded by tidal restrictions and impoundments. Such marshes become dominated by common reed grass ( Phragmites australis ) and cattail ( Typha angustifolia and T. latifolia ), with little ecological connection to Long Island Sound. The management and scientific hypothesis was that returning tidal action...

-Lesser scaup Aythya afinis, mediumsized black and white diving ducks, were collected at Arkansas baitfish farms during November-December 1999 (N = 33), January-February 2000 (N = 39), and March-April 2000 (N = 22) to determine seasonal differences in their diet and their relative impact to baitfish production. The mass of gastrointestinal contents was used to determine the proportion of each d...

Dawson et al. examine the importance and relevance of clinical supervision (CS) for regional allied health professionals (AHPs) from a supervisor’s perspective, following their previous study examining CS from a supervisee’s perspective. Both studies examine potential barriers to and outcomes of CS and factors affecting its success in promoting and supporting professional learning and capacity ...

Four lines of evidence indicate that evening bats, Nycticeius humeralis, at nursery colonies in northern Missouri transfer information by following each other to feeding and roosting sites . (1) Daily estimates of insect density from five automated suction traps showed that common prey in evening bat faecal samples, small beetles and flies, occur in rich patches that persist for several days . ...

Sitting on the most amazing stretch of beach you didn't know existed, Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach, AL, has been selected to host 29th Annual Critical Care Transport Medicine Conference (CCTMC) scheduled for March 29 31, 2021. This beautiful yet affordable location perfectly complements exceptional education CCTMC provides. You don't want miss it! is presented by Air & Surface Nurses As...

The order of Pelecaniformes is composed of families Ardeidae (Leach, 1820), Thereskiornithidae (Poche, 1904), and Pelecanidae (Rafinesque, 1891) (CRBRO, 2011). The family Ardeidae gathers more than 60 species of herons, egrets and bitterns being one of the largest and more representative with characteristics adapted to wetlands (Sick, 1997). In the State of Rio Grande do Sul, 13 species are rec...

More than 11,000 fishes weighing over 197 kg and representing 21 species were caught in bag seine hauls taken at quarterly periods (November 1974, May and August 1975, February 1976) in the southeastern section ofMorro Bay. During each sampling period, nine seine hauls were completed, one at each 3-hour interval over a 24-hour cycle. Atherinops affmis, Cymatogaster aggregata, andLeptocottus arm...

Red-billed gulls (Lams scupzdinus) and southern black-backed gulls (Lams dominicams) exploited a large and highly visible food source provided by beaching of euphausiids (Nyctiphanes australis) and galatheid crab larvae (Munida gregaria) in Otago Harbor. The plankton strandings occurred predominantly in summer, and provided a food source of -270 t dry weigh1 over 170 d along 12 km of shoreline....

Giardia is a protozoan flagellate that was first observed by chymotrypsin and trypsin, producing two trophozoites (vegetative stage) from each cyst [6, 7]. The trophozoites replicate in Van Leeuwenhoek in 1681 and more fully described by Lamb in 1859. It was initially thought to be a commensal in humans, the crypts of the duodenum and upper jejunum and reproduce asexually by binary fission. Som...