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« Reply #1980 on: October 25, 2018, 08:05:57 PM »
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« Reply #1981 on: October 25, 2018, 08:23:39 PM »
Chromosome-level assembly reveals extensive rearrangement in saker falcon and budgerigar, but not ostrich, genomes

https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-018-1550-x
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« Reply #1982 on: October 25, 2018, 08:26:53 PM »
Forest & Bird hails biodiversity report as breakthrough

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/369463/forest-and-bird-hails-biodiversity-report-as-breakthrough


 A NZ jewelled gecko. The report said 80 per cent of native birds, 88 per cent of lizards and 100 per cent of frogs were threatened with extinction. Photo: DOC/Sabine Bernert
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« Reply #1983 on: October 25, 2018, 08:35:44 PM »
Bones reveal owl was daytime hunter: 48-Million-Year-Old Fossil Owl Is Almost Perfectly Preserved

https://www.livescience.com/63892-owl-fossil-daytime-hunter.html


The rocky chunk holding the fragile fossilized bones of the ancient owl, next to a quarter for size comparison.
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« Reply #1984 on: October 26, 2018, 03:51:42 PM »
Genomic analysis helps in discovery of unusual new bird species from Indonesia

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181023110605.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


The Rote Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus rotiensis was newly described by a joint research team from the National University of Singapore and the Indonesian Institute of Science. This new species of leaf-warbler, which has an unusually long bill, was first discovered on Rote Island, Indonesia.
Credit: Philippe Verbelen
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« Reply #1985 on: October 26, 2018, 03:52:55 PM »
Biodiversity for the birds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181023130340.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


Researchers studied the impact of non-native plants on the Carolina chickadee, an ideal representative for bird species in the eastern and southeastern US.
Credit: Desir?e Narango and Doug Tallamy
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« Reply #1986 on: October 26, 2018, 03:53:42 PM »
Plump songbirds more likely to survive migration over Gulf of Mexico

https://mailchi.mp/birdnote/weeklypreview-866401?e=e2aca28750

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New species of 'missing link' between dinosaurs and birds identified

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181025151820.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals%2Fbirds+%28Birds+News+--+ScienceDaily%29


Dr. John Nudds with Archaeopteryx fossil specimen at the European Synchrotron in Grenoble.
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« Reply #1988 on: October 27, 2018, 09:59:44 AM »
Homebody tendencies put Hawaiian gallinules at risk

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Hawaiian Gallinule's tendency to stay in one place puts island populations at greater risk from severe events such as hurricanes.
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« Reply #1989 on: October 27, 2018, 10:23:08 AM »
Paper: Interisland genetic structure of two endangered Hawaiian waterbirds: The Hawaiian Coot and Hawaiian Gallinule

http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1650/CONDOR-18-98.1


Current distribution (shaded in gray), sample size, and average membership coefficient of individual Hawaiian Coots (A) and Hawaiian Gallinules (B) from sampled Hawaiian islands into the 2 clusters inferred from 16 and 13 microsatellite loci, respectively, in Structure (Pritchard et al. 2000).
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Paper: Evaluating a focal-species approach for tidal marsh bird conservation in the northeastern United States

http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1650/CONDOR-18-88.1


Delineation of 8 tidal marsh subregions in northeastern North America (after Wiest et al. 2016), with location of the study region in the United States (inset). The table shows total number of patches, mean cost of land purchase (U.S. dollars ha−1), and area (ha) for each subregion.
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« Reply #1991 on: October 27, 2018, 10:28:54 AM »
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Secondary forest is utilized by Great Curassows (Crax rubra) and Great Tinamous (Tinamus major) in the absence of hunting

http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1650/CONDOR-18-57.1

Demographic drivers of local population decline in Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) in Ontario, Canada

http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1650/CONDOR-18-42.1

Demographic drivers of collapse in an island population of Tree Swallows

http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1650/CONDOR-18-75.1

Implications of male breeding-season home range movements for population monitoring and minimum reserve area of the Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris ocellata), a threatened Yucatan endemic

http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1650/CONDOR-18-100.1
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« Reply #1992 on: October 30, 2018, 05:42:28 PM »
60% of world's wildlife has been wiped out since 1970

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/living-plant-wwf-2018-1.4882819

Living Planet Report 2018: Aiming higher - https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/publications/1187/files/original/LPR2018_Full_Report_Spreads.pdf


The yellow-throated tanager inhabits high elevations in Peru, where many high-elevation species are declining, a new study has found. (Graham Montgomery/University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT)
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« Reply #1993 on: October 30, 2018, 05:54:51 PM »
Can vultures help us avoid food poisoning?

https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/article/2888


Bald is beautiful? What's in a vulture's digestive system that enables it to eat dead meat without getting sick?


Abstract: A Systematic Review of Carrion Eaters' Adaptations to Avoid Sickness

http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.7589/2016-07-162

Paper: The microbiome of New World vultures

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms6498


(a) Microbial clustering on the basis of Bray?Curtis dissimilarity matrix (visualized by principal coordinate analysis). Facial skin and hindgut communities exhibited minor overlap (ANOSIM; R=0.744, P=0.001). Hindgut (ANOSIM, R=0.333, P=0.001) and skin (ANOSIM, R=0.321, P=0.001) communities showed minor clustering within vulture species. (b) Variation in diversity (Shannon index) in facial skin and hindgut. The hindgut community was significantly less diverse than the facial community (Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test, P≪0.001). The facial communities of the black vulture were more diverse than those of the turkey vulture whereas the hindgut samples displayed the opposite pattern (Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test, P≪0.01). There were no differences between male and female vultures in the clustering (not shown) of hindgut (ANOSIM, R=0.063, P>0.05) or facial (ANOSIM, R=0.025, P>0.05) communities.
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« Reply #1994 on: October 30, 2018, 07:05:40 PM »
Dinosaurs may have had bird-like 'superlungs'

https://www.foxnews.com/science/dinosaurs-may-have-had-bird-like-superlungs

Paper: Vertebral morphometrics and lung structure in non-avian dinosaurs

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/10/180983


File photo - A robotic Velociraptor dinosaur opens its mouth to scare visitors as it demonstrates the power of air pressure at the fluid power exhibition in Tokyo on April 22, 2008. The dinousaur, produced by Japanese robotic venture Kokoro, has an infrared sensor to detect passersby. (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)


Anatomy of the lung and thorax of extant archosaurs. (a) Dorsal view of the lungs and trachea of a hatchling American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) generated from microCT. (b) Lungs of a hatchling A. mississippiensis in association with the vertebral column and dorsal ribs in left anterolateral view. (c) Interior of the thoracic cavity of A. mississippiensis with all viscera removed. (d) Dorsal view of the gas-exchanging lungs of the African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) (no air sacs are shown). (e) Lungs of P. erithacus in association with the vertebral column and dorsal ribs in left anterolateral view. (f) Interior of the thoracic cavity of the ostrich (Struthio camelus) with all viscera removed. Segmented surface models in (a,b,d,e) generated in the visualization programme Avizo 7.1 from microCT DICOM data of inflated lungs in situ. Abbreviation: s, costal sulci. Images not to scale.
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