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« Reply #2040 on: November 30, 2018, 03:21:04 PM »
Paper: Peregrine Falcon Eggs : Egg Size, Hatchling Sex, and Clutch Sex Ratios

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9e3e/57cbdc43a77d5d856209a9d3abb8e8fbc3e7.pdf?_ga=2.114036737.763357598.1543610396-1765627468.1542402478


Relationship between egg length and egg breadth for 366 Peregrine Falcon eggs collected from wild nests and incubated in captivity (1976-1990). These two variables were only weakly (although significantly) related, so both were used in subsequent multiple regression analyses as explanatory variables


Sex ratio (proportion of males) in first (n = 29) and second (n = 10) clutches of Peregrine Falcon eggs where sex was discernible for all eggs within a clutch. Proportion of males did not differ from 0.5 for either first or second clutches.
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« Reply #2041 on: December 04, 2018, 03:49:27 PM »
Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature

https://e360.yale.edu/features/sparing-vs-sharing-the-great-debate-over-how-to-protect-nature

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« Reply #2043 on: December 04, 2018, 03:52:44 PM »
For the birds: Innovations enable tracking of even small flying animals

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/for-the-birds-innovations-enable-tracking-of-even-small-flying-animals/

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« Reply #2044 on: December 06, 2018, 05:16:30 PM »
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« Reply #2045 on: December 06, 2018, 05:48:11 PM »
Paper: New Rodenticide on the Block: Diagnosing Bromethalin Intoxication in Wildlife

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87p45686

Quote: "Bromethalin is a neurotoxicant which is not thought to cause secondary poisoning."

Quote: "Although there have been no confirmed
cases  of  secondary  poisoning  from  bromethalin,  there  is
very  little  data  to  exclude  this  possibility  (Jackson  et  al.
1982).  Continued monitoring of carnivores will be helpful
in  determining  the  occurrence  of  secondary  exposure." 
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« Reply #2047 on: December 09, 2018, 12:20:23 AM »
Ingestion of Spent Lead Ammunition: Implications for Wildlife and Humans - The Peregrine Fund 2008 Conference

Links to Resources - http://www.peregrinefund.org/subsites/conference-lead/2008PbConf_links.htm

Justification - http://www.peregrinefund.org/subsites/conference-lead/2008PbConf_Justification.htm

Research Abstracts (go to Page 24) - http://www.peregrinefund.org/subsites/conference-lead/CONFERENCE-PROGRAM-v2.pdf

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« Reply #2048 on: December 11, 2018, 04:53:44 PM »
The Genes That Make Parrots Into the Humans of the Bird World

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/science/parrots-genes-longevity.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_sc_20181211&nl=science-times&nl_art=5&nlid=75212545emc%3Dedit_sc_20181211&ref=headline&te=1

Paper: Parrot Genomes and the Evolution of Heightened Longevity and Cognition

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31417-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982218314179%3Fshowall%3Dtrue


The blue-fronted parrot can live up to 66 years, and they and some other long-lived birds share changes in a set of hundreds of genes that seem to influence life span.CreditCreditGlaucia Seixas
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Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2017.0829
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Scientists discover how birds and dinosaurs evolved to dazzle with colourful displays

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Two of the fossils sampled for the study with the fossil melanosomes found in each fossil (scanning electron microscope images). Scaniacypselus to the left and Primotrogon to the right. Melanosome shape varies in the different samples, and is indicative of color. The sample furthest to the left was predicted to be iridescent.
Credit: Photographs of Scaniacypselus and Primotrogon by Jakob Vinther and Fiann Smithwick.

Article: How birds evolved shiny feathers: Avian ancestors developed bright plumage to attract mates 150m years ago when their ancestors first started going into trees where they were safe from predators

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6478879/How-birds-evolved-feathers-Avians-evolved-shiny-colourful-feathers-150-million-years-ago.html


Bird ancestors first evolved shiny feathers around 150 million years ago when certain dinosaurs started going up into trees, according to new research. Pictured is a Masked Trogon in Ecuador
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