Members of the team surveyed more than 1000 kilometres of coastline in Turkey and Greece where two species of rabbitfish have become dominant
and Guan Feng Wang who are postdoctoral researchers at NC State. Vijay Vontimitta a postdoctoral researcher at Purdue working in a group headed by Guri Johal is also a first author.
The report identifies 33 species like the northern bobwhite quail grasshopper sparrow and bank swallow that do not meet the Watch List criteria
For example the figures included two 85g portions of red meat and five eggs per week as well as a portion of poultry a day.
The study looked at how baby birds in this case chukar partridges pheasant-like game birds from Eurasia react
and occur before other previously described uses of the wings such as for weight support during wing-assisted incline running said Evangelista who emphasized that no chukar chicks were injured in the process.
Seeing it develop first in very young chicks indirectly supports this idea. Symmetric flapping while running is certainly one possible context in
The researchers also tested the young chicks to see if they flapped their wings while running up an incline.
Korea Thailand Russia Estonia Italy Spain and two cities in the United states. The consumers completed questionnaires about their purchase storage handling and preparation practices of poultry and eggs.
The study produced the article Eggs and Poultry: Purchase Storage and Preparation Practices of Consumers in Selected Asian countries
and poultry because these products are the source of two main bacteria: salmonella and campylobacterâ#Koppel said.
Another similar finding was that the majority of consumers in these countries buy raw poultry
The riskiest behavior was exhibited in preparing the eggs and poultry. About 90 percent of consumers in Colombia and 70 percent of consumers in India washed these products in the sink before preparation.
MUSTANG-1. 5 the even more-sensitive successor to MUSTANG and ARGUS a camera designed for mapping the distribution of organic molecules in space.
The study part of multi-million-dollar Operation Idiopathic Decline and funded by the private Rolling Plains Quail Research Foundation is titled Evidence of an Oxispirura petrowi Epizootic in Northern bobwhites
(Colinus virginianus) Texas USA. It was published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases and provides evidence of how the parasitic outbreak began.
The Rolling Plains of West Texas are a major stronghold for wild bobwhite quail hunting in the United states
when harriers breed at levels that have a significant economic impact on grouse shoots the excess chicks would be removed from the grouse moors reared in captivity
While this is good news for ravens it could be bad news for sensitive prey species including the Greater Sage-grouse.
Predation risk would now likely be greater for sage-grouse eggs and young and correspondingly lower for adult sage-grouse and other prey species. This adds new insights for ecosystem managers who seek to understand the complex relationships between ravens hawks sage-grouse populations and habitat changes.
Increases In common Raven distribution and abundance in the American west mirror declines in distribution and abundance of Greater Sage-grouse where energy transmission corridors and other land use changes have altered sagebrush steppe
habitat said David Delehanty of ISU. Industrial development wildfires invasive plant species and other disturbances are changing sagebrush landscapes throughout the western United states. Our results shed light on how these avian predators might change with them said Coates of USGS. The study Landscape alterations
Snakes turtles prairie chickens and other nesting birds are less likely to be destroyed during fall and winter burns as wildlife is often hibernating underground
dairy beef poultry pork and eggs. Their idea was to calculate the environmental inputs-the costs-per nutritional unit:
In total eating beef is more costly to the environment by an order of magnitude-about ten times on average-than other animal-derived foods including pork and poultry.
and consume 6 times as much nitrogen as eggs or poultry. Poultry pork eggs and dairy all came out fairly similar.
That was also surprising because dairy production is thought often to be relatively environmentally benign. But the research shows that the price of irrigating
They also tested various nutrient sources (non-fertilized control composted poultry litter and pelletized organic commercial fertilizer).
This study has implications for a range of other species including black grouse (Tetrao tetrix) capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) and woodlark (Lullula arborea.
#Prehistoric â#bookkeepingâ##tokens continued long after invention of writingan archaeological dig in southeast Turkey has uncovered a large number of clay tokens that were used as records of trade until the advent of writing
what is now Turkey Syria and Iraq. In its day roughly 900 to 600 BC the Assyrian empire was the largest the world had seen ever.
They are in the same pheasant family as the roosters and exhibit similar characteristics. It is also worth noting that Toyohashi near Nagoya is the number one producer of quails in Japan explains Professor Yoshimura.
in addition it analyses whether or not trophic niche width influences productivity (number of chicks per pair) at population and territory levels.
but can cause disease in some breeds of poultry according to research published in mbioâ the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
and wheat along with such livestock products as ruminant (animals like cattle goats and sheep that subsist on plant matter) pork and poultry.
and Turkey. According to one of the authors Dr Piers Mitchell at the University of Cambridge UK the discovery might be among the oldest evidence of human-made technology inadvertently causing disease outbreaks.
showing the distribution and density of live poultry markets in China and of poultry production overall in the country.
and does not appear related to China's growing number of intensive commercial poultry operations. They have pinpointed areas elsewhere in Asia with similar conditions (places with a high density of live bird markets) that could allow H7n9--which has infected 429 people thus far
which means it could move stealthily into poultry populations long before people get sick. The obvious use for such maps in the immediate future is to help target surveillance to areas most at risk
and spread of H7n9 are dense clusters of live poultry markets which aggregate birds from large geographical areas located near or just outside densely populated urban areas.
and intensive poultry operations proliferating in China that raise a larger number of birds. In fact the study notes that H7n9 has thus far been absent from live poultry markets in Northeastern China a region that is home to many of the country's commercial-scale poultry operations.
The study notes that there is evidence that certain factors within live poultry markets such as the amount of time the birds are there the rigor of sanitation measures
and rest days that can influence the spread of the disease suggesting potential options for reducing risks of further transmission of H7n9.
despite remarkably strict control efforts the virus has continued to slowly expand to new areas--evidence that H7n9 is difficult to contain along poultry market chains
and density of the billions of poultry cattle pigs goats and other livestock that exist in the world today.
For example in the avian influenza study the maps helped researchers rule out intensive poultry operations in Northeastern China as a source of H7n9
and thus possibly avert a costly and likely futile intervention aimed at indiscriminately culling poultry.
#Conserving remnants of West african tropical forestthe Upper Guinean forests once covered more than 103 million acres from southern Guinea into Sierra leone through Liberia and southern CÃ'te d'Ivoire
Three loggerhead shrike chicks hatched in Mid-may at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute In front Royal Va. Loggerhead shrikes also called butcher birds are songbirds that hunt small animals by impaling them on thorns or barbed wire.
poultry included chicken and turkey; fish included tuna salmon mackerel sardines; legumes included beans lentils and peas;
In contrast estimates showed a lower risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women with higher consumption of poultry.
Substituting one serving per day of poultry for one serving per day of red meat--in the statistical model--was associated with a 17%lower risk of breast cancer overall and a 24%lower risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.
Furthermore substituting one serving per day of combined legumes nuts poultry and fish for one serving per day of red meat was associated with a 14%lower risk of breast cancer overall and premenopausal breast cancer.
and replacing red meat with a combination of legumes poultry nuts and fish may reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Samples collected by Kocaeli University Hospital Turkey from children born of nutritionally Vitamin b12-deficient mothers also showed a significant decrease in levels of Vitamin b12 and taurine.
This study should help to measure the socioeconomic public health and environmental impacts of livestock and poultry worldwide.
in PLOS ONE new global maps of livestock and poultry. The map data that accompany this publication are distributed in open access under Creative Commons license
In Belgium for example the density of pigs and poultry per km2 is one of the highest in the world.
The new global mapping of livestock and poultry will facilitate the assessment of impacts of livestock
Penelope Measham and Nicholas Macnair from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tasmania along with Audrey Quentin from CSIRO Ecosystems Science published the results of their experiments using two common sweet cherry varieties.
C stated corresponding author Penelope Measham. Regions in Western australia and Queensland will become marginal or not suitable for'Kordia'.
and Turkey suggested that the great ape's diet evolved from hard-shelled fruits and seeds to leaves but these findings only contained samples from the early-Middle and Late Miocene while lack data from the epoch of highest diversity
In this part of the continent a considerable proportion of livestock production takes place in line with the intensive model as in the case of pig poultry and a large proportion of cattle livestock.
and nanoparticles against foodborne pathogens associated with meat and poultry. The results demonstrate that the bacterial pathogens were inhibited significantly by the use of the antimicrobial films said Catherine Cutter professor of food science.
She hopes that the research will lead to the application of edible antimicrobial films to meat and poultry either before packaging or more likely as part of the packaging process.
and poultry products with bacterial pathogens treated them with the pullulan films containing the essential oils
or further-processed meat and poultry products said Cutter. The research shows that we can apply these food-grade films
and poultry--safer to eat. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Penn State.
House flies are common where animal manure is produced including in cattle poultry and swine operations.
and poultry farms as well as wastewater treatment facilities that collect waste from multiple sources including hospitals.
Antibiotics in low doses are added as feed additives primarily in poultry and swine diets he said.
We'll be looking for some really great birds such as the Elegant Trogon Phainopepla and Mountain quail.
#Saving the lesser prairie chicken: What landowners should knowcumulative habitat loss encroachment by invasive woody plants wind energy development petroleum production
and the ongoing drought are just a handful of reasons why there are fewer lesser prairie chickens in the wild today according to the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service
K-State Research and Extension wildlife specialist Charlie Lee said the designation of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species has been anticipated for some time.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service reported that last year the range-wide population of the lesser prairie chicken declined to a record low of 17616 birds an almost 50 percent reduction from the 2012 population estimate.
where the lesser prairie chicken lives. Significant habitat changes must occur to meet the 67000-bird decade goal
and grazers implementing conservation practices that benefit lesser prairie chickens. More normal rainfall patterns would also be beneficial.
because the section 4 (d) rule of the Endangered Species Act exempts most routine farming activity to protect the lesser prairie chicken including agricultural practices on cultivated lands that are in crop production as well as maintenance of infrastructure on these operations. â#oehowever they decided as part of
the rule that properly managed grazing is important for lesser prairie chickens and improperly managed grazing can impact them in a negative mannerâ#Lee said. â#oehaying of native grass might not be allowed.
and limiting the length of time they are allowed to graze for the numbers of lesser prairie chickens to increase.
I read the rule the ranchers might be affected more than crop producers in this particular situationâ#Lee said. â#oewhen you look at it the lesser prairie chicken uses cropland for a minor amount of food certain times of the year.
and that is where most changes are going to have to take place. â#The listing also means no hunting season for the lesser prairie chicken he said.
Kansas has been the only state to allow hunting for the lesser prairie chicken in recent years. Information about CRPHOW about the landowners who have enrolled acres in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP?
and Wildlife Service has been working with the FSA to ensure implementation of all aspects of CRP has an overall positive impact on habitat for the lesser prairie chicken.
which creates a balancing effect The effort has been as much as possible to keep the impact on CRP participants within the lesser prairie chicken region the same as those outside the region Winkler said. â#oethere will
It will be more in line with the end of the nesting season. â#Pushing early land preparation back allows for the lesser prairie chicken to fulfill its nesting and brooding season
Burr said many landowners who are in their final year of their CRP contracts are questioning now how early land preparation could be affected by the lesser prairie chicken threatened species listing.
and how their land might be affected can log on to the lesser prairie chicken website through K-State Research and Extension (http://www. ksre. k-state. edu/p. aspx?
Skuas are migratory birds that feed essentially on penguin eggs and chicks as well as fish. These formidable predators which live for up to 25 to 30 years accumulate mercury in their tissues.
in order to observe their breeding success. Skuas can rear one to two chicks per year. The first finding was that mercury levels in brown skuas were three times higher than in south polar skuas.
and especially of rearing their chicks. Unexpectedly it is contaminated in the least species the south polar skua that the effects of mercury are the most obvious.
With an estimated population of more than 7000 individuals Liberia now officially holds the second largest population of West African chimpanzees after Guinea.
#Kitchens are source of multi-drug resistant bacteriaafter handling raw poultry hands of food preparers
not only after handling raw poultry but also after contact with cutting boards used in poultry preparation. Researchers from University Hospital in Basel Switzerland collected
and 144 from private households) after preparation of various meats (i e. poultry beef/veal pork lamb game
They also collected 20 pairs of gloves from hospital kitchen employees after they handled raw poultry.
In testing the cutting boards researchers found that 6. 5 percent of hospital cutting boards used in preparation of poultry were contaminated with ESBL-producing E coli.
#Sage grouse losing habitat to fire as endangered species decision loomsas fires sweep more frequently across the American Great Basin the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been tasked with reseeding the burned landscapes
BLM's interventions have not helped to restore habitat for the greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) reported scientists from the US Geological Survey (USGS)
and Wildlife Service (FWS) to protect the sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act and efforts by BLM and FWS to establish voluntary conservation and restoration management plans in lieu of endangered species listing mandates.
Protection of sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act could affect the management of 250000 square miles of land in the western US.
Arkle emphasized that recovery of sage grouse habitat is not part of BLM's wildfire response directive.
and limiting the spread of nonnative species. Accomplishing those goals certainly wouldn't hurt sage grouse
but whether or not these treatments provide a benefit for sage grouse doesn't have bearing on the success of the ESR program said Arkle.
Almost all treated acres occur in historic sage grouse habitat said Arkle. That's why the team chose to look at ESR project sites.
Treated plots were not much more likely to be used by sage grouse than the burned and untreated on average
because they are sites where the treatments were more effective in terms of sage grouse habitat said Arkle.
Sage grouse prefer land that has burned not at all in recent decades. Arkle and his colleagues found little sagebrush cover at burned sites whether treated or not.
Sage grouse are picky birds Arkle and colleagues found preferring a sagebrush steppe environment featuring very little human development and dwarf sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula A. nova or A. tripartita) but not cheatgrass or other nonnative plants.
and livestock watering stations provide predatory ravens with high perches from which to spy sage grouse nests.
The outlier ESR sites preferred by sage grouse had healthier sagebrush and shared common climate and post-treatment weather conditions.
During spring birds must work their socks off to raise their chicks said Philippa Gullett.
or three years not raising any chicks one year is a disaster. They might only get one more chance so they can't afford to fail.
What seems to be going on is that the tits try to raise their chicks at any cost added Ms Gullett.
eggs and chicks are at risk of getting cold. The result is that by the end of the breeding season the adult birds are exhausted.
This would be the case of snail Xerocrassa montserratensis and Red-legged partridge Alectoris rufa two interesting species
But scarcity is exacerbated by exports in parts of Turkey Spain Portugal Afghanistan and the US Biewald says.
#Study fingers chickens, quail in spread of H7n9 influenza virusamong the copious species of poultry in China quail and chickens are the likely sources of infection of H7n9 influenza virus
Knowing the likely poultry species lets us target our interventions better to prevent human infections says corresponding author David Suarez of the United states Department of agriculture.
According to the World health organization most known human infections have resulted from direct or indirect contact with poultry.
Most of the genes had come from a poultry virus that had existed in china for many years
We felt a major knowledge gap in the outbreak was that we didn't know which poultry species was maintaining the virus
and his collaborators first infected seven species of poultry with a human isolate of the Chinese H7n9 virus. The virus replicated well in quail
The virus replicated less well in other poultry species and did not transmit efficiently. Pigeons were notably resistant to becoming infected.
None of the poultry species became sick when infected with H7n9 making detection of the virus that much more difficult in the birds says Suarez.
The silent carriage also creates a conflict between poultry producers who want to preserve their flocks
This work supports the field epidemiology studies that had identified live poultry markets as the likely source of the outbreak says Suarez.
These original lineages could be of considerable importance to the poultry industry which is concerned about the lack of genetic diversity in commercial stocks.
and an extraordinary bird called the maleo. On February 23 on Sulawesiâ##s Binerean Cape conservation managers released two newly hatched maleo chicks
which quickly flew into the forest and 34 newly hatched olive ridley sea turtles which crawled into the sea.
â#oethe joint release of maleos and olive ridleys on the same day is a boost to the conservation of both species in Sulawesiâ#said Noviar Andayani Country Director for WCSÂ##s Indonesia Program
and participant in the Maleo Conservation Project. â#oethe protection of the beachfront lands which are critical nesting grounds for both species will help safeguard this part of Indonesiaâ##s natural heritage. â#The hatchling
and even former maleo hunters to guard nests from egg poachers. The most threatened of the beach nestersâ#he maleoâ#s a chicken-sized bird with a black helmet (or casque) yellow facial skin a red-orange beak
or in some instances volcanically heated soil the maleo parents abandon their nest. After an incubation period of approximately 70 days the chicks emerge fully feathered able to fly
and fend for themselves. The maleoâ##s entire range is limited to the islands of Sulawesi and Buton and the estimated population numbers 8000-14000 mature individual birds (4000-7000 breeding pairs.
and direct hunting. â#oethe round-the-clock monitoring of maleo and sea turtle nests on this protected beach prevents the exploitation of these species a threat that still frequently occurs at other sitesâ#said Dr. Peter Clyne Deputy
#In addition to conservation efforts in the field WCS also works to conserve maleos at its Bronx Zoo headquarters where curators have reared successfully maleo chicks by recreating the specialized conditions needed for successful reproduction and incubation.
#Project hoping to end alarming decline of bobwhite quailthe iconic bobwhite quail a favorite among hunters and wildlife enthusiasts alike throughout the United states has flown literally the coop â#its numbers have been decreasing alarmingly for decades
but a groundbreaking project led by a team of Texas A&m University researchers could prove to be a big move toward understanding historic and future bobwhite population trends.
Ian Tizard Donald Brightsmith) at Texas A&mâ##s College of Veterinary medicine & Biomedical sciences have completed the first-ever draft genome assembly for a wild bobwhite quail named Pattie-Marie
and assembling the bobwhite quail genome the team produced the most comprehensive resource currently available for cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in the bobwhiteâ#Seabury says.
and a cultural icon among outdoor enthusiasts the bobwhite quail has undergone a mysterious decline that has been documented for more than 50 years.
and Southwest bobwhite numbers are down as much as 80 percent in some areas. In Oklahoma declining bobwhite quail numbers are especially alarming with one study relating that decline to the number of quail hunters
which has dropped from 111000 in 1986 to only 30000 last year. The bird was named recently the No. 1 bird in decline in North america by the Audubon Society.
According to Texas Parks and Wildlife Department figures the bobwhite quail has declined every year since 1981. At present there appears to be no single or specific reason for the decline.
or draw important inferences regarding bobwhite physiological interactions with their environmentâ#Seabury explains. â#oewe now have a formal resource for studying the bird and identifying new or perhaps even more specific reasons for its serious decline.
and even considering genetic similarity in relation to the translocation of wild bobwhites to suitable habitats. â#Story Source:
The study recommends to avoid ungulate feeding in the breeding areas of bird species of conservation concern such as capercaillie
or black grouse and to stop feeding before the bird nesting season starts. We urge for sensible feeding practices
(when a virus jumps from one species to another) of avian flu can be traced back to human contact with domestic poultry.
Although avian flu strain diversity often originates in wild birds it is the mixing of viruses among poultry pigs
Given that flu viruses can jump from domestic poultry to people ongoing efforts at improving biosecurity at poultry farms
The researchers identified three distinct dietary patterns interpreted as prudent (vegetables fruits oils water as a beverage whole grain cereals poultry fibre rich bread) Western
When your daily eating plans include foods like vegetables fruits whole grains lean meats poultry fish eggs fat-free
which included UA graduate student Guan-Zhu Han and Andrew Rambaut a professor from the University of Edinburgh who is affiliated also with the U s. National institutes of health found a strong signature in the data suggesting that something revolutionary happened to avian influenza virus
The management regimes were compared from the point of view of six forest species such as the capercaillie hazel grouse flying squirrel
In particular increasing habitat availability for the capercaillie is relatively inexpensive says MÃ nkkã nen. Providing dead-wood associated species with more habitats tended to be more expensive
APEC infections are a serious threat to poultry causing both systemic and localized infections collectively known as colibacillosis.
These afflictions cause significant economic losses to the poultry industry due to the costs of treatment for infected birds lowered rates of egg production and mortality.
Additionally the study assessed ECP's role in virulence in baby chicks. The new research demonstrates--for the first time--the prevalence of ecpa a gene coding for a major structural subunit of ECP in a majority APEC sequences examined.
and turkeys afflicted with colibacillosis 76 percent of which tested positive for ecpa which was associated previousely with human pathogenic E coli.
This finding suggests that ECP could be considered as a potential antigen for vaccines for both human and poultry infections.
Finally the study attempted to evaluate APEC virulence in baby chicks using strains with deleted ECP genes.
#Deaths attributed directly to climate change cast pall over penguinsclimate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins not just indirectly--by depriving them of food as has been documented repeatedly for these
but still too young to have grown waterproof feathers downy penguin chicks exposed to drenching rain can struggle
And during extreme heat chicks without waterproofing can't take a dip in cooling waters as adults can.
It's the first long-term study to show climate change having a major impact on chick survival and reproductive success said Boersma who has led field work
During a span of 27 years an average of 65 percent of chicks died per year with some 40 percent starving.
Climate change a relatively new cause of chick death killed an average of 7 percent of chicks per year
when it was the most common cause of death killing 43 percent of all chicks one year and fully half in another.
Starving chicks are more likely to die in a storm she said. There may not be much we can do to mitigate climate change
while raising small chicks. Rainfall and the number of storms per breeding season have increased already at The argentine study site said Ginger Rebstock UW research scientist
For instance in the first two weeks of December when all chicks are less than 25 days old and most vulnerable to storm death the number of storms increased between 1983 and 2010.
We're going to see years where almost no chicks survive if climate change makes storms bigger
and kills down-covered chicks ages 9 to 23 days if they can't warm up
If chicks can live 25 days or more most have enough juvenile plumage to protect them.
Once chicks die parents do not lay additional eggs that season. The findings are based on weather information collected at the regional airport and by researchers in the field as well as from penguin counts.
and record the contents of the nest often hunting for chicks when they move around as they get older.
When chicks disappear or are found dead the researchers turn into detectives looking for evidence of starvation predators
Just back from two months in the field Boersma said heat this season took a greater toll on chicks than storms.
Such variability between years is the reason why the number of chicks dying from climate change is not a tidy ever-increasing figure each year.
The later in the year chicks hatch the more likely they'll still be in their down-covered stage
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