Effect of Isosporiasis Prevention with Toltrazuril on Long-Term Pig Performance by K. Rypula, M. Porowski, J. Kaba, M. Gorczykowski, A. Deniz

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Determination of the Standardized Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility of U.S. Tannin-Free Sorghum in Broilers by Santiago Sasia, William Bridges, Mireille Arguelles-Ramos

“…Each tested grain was assigned to eight cages, with thirteen birds/cage. Birds were reared for 3 wks using the last 4 d as the experimental phase when ileal digesta were collected for SIAD assessment. …”
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Corrigendum: Assessing the effects of a mixed Eimeria spp. challenge on performance, intestinal integrity, and the gut microbiome of broiler chickens by Danielle Graham, Victor M. Petrone-Garcia, Xochitl Hernandez-Velasco, Makenly E. Coles, Marco A. Juarez-Estrada, Juan D. Latorre, Jianmin Chai, Stephanie Shouse, Jiangchao Zhao, Aaron J. Forga, Roberto Senas-Cuesta, Lauren Laverty, Kristen Martin, Carolina Trujillo-Peralta, Ileana Loeza, Latasha S. Gray, Billy M. Hargis, Guillermo Tellez-Isaias

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The Worm and the Ecologist: Experiencing Planetarity with Frank Herbert’s Dune by Pierre-Louis Patoine

“…This article explores how Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune offers occasions for the development of an ecological, Gaian sensitivity, pushing the human sensorium towards the planetary (in relation to, and contradistinction to, the global, colonial, and imperial imaginaries) by using tools typical of fantasy and science fiction, such as world-building, immersion, sensationalism, terrain navigation, non-modern epistemologies, oneiric possession, geological actants, dragon-like giant sandworms, and human-eating birds. In the novel, these motifs assemble to form thick situations, in which immersed, empathic readers can experience aspects of planetary ecology, thanks to embodied cognition and its sensory and motor simulations.…”
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IMMUNOBIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF FOWLPOX VIRUS CULTURAL VARIANTS by K. Yu. Fedoseyev, M. S. Kukushkina, V. Yu. Kulakov, L. V. Malakhova

“…The immunization doses were determined for both studied virus variants which ensured 95% protection of vaccinated birds. The doses were 14,6 и 6,97 ID50 for «F» and «D» correspondingly.…”
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A Seed-Based Plant Propagation Algorithm: The Feeding Station Model by Muhammad Sulaiman, Abdellah Salhi

“…Agents coming to feed on the fruit are like customers attending the restaurant; they arrive at a certain rate and get served at a certain rate following some appropriate processes. The same applies to birds and animals visiting and feeding on ripe fruit produced by plants such as the strawberry plant. …”
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Rural Landscape Simplification and Provision of Cultural Ecosystem Services. A Case Study in the Argentine Pampas by Silvina María Cabrini, Estela Raquel Cristeche, Ignacio Raul Pace Guerrero, María Victoria Bitar

“…Pergamino citizens relate landscape improvement in terms of aesthetic and recreational values to increasing its complexity since they prefer more winter crops, grazing areas, native vegetation, trees, and birds. The significant relationship between sociodemographic variables and preferences for landscape attributes is consistent with the notion that aesthetic perception is constructed from personal experiences and background.…”
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Multiple Control Strategies for Prevention of Avian Influenza Pandemic by Roman Ullah, Gul Zaman, Saeed Islam

“…To do this, we use three control functions, the effort to reduce the number of contacts with human infected with mutant avian influenza, the antiviral treatment of infected individuals, and the effort to reduce the number of infected birds. We completely characterized the optimal control and compute numerical solution of the optimality system by using an iterative method.…”
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Gulf Coast Tick, Amblyomma maculatum Koch (Acari: Ixodidae: Amblyomminae) by Jeffrey C. Hertz, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…The ticks are ectoparasites that feed on a variety of birds and mammals, and will readily bite humans. …”
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Gulf Coast Tick, Amblyomma maculatum Koch (Acari: Ixodidae: Amblyomminae) by Jeffrey C. Hertz, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…The ticks are ectoparasites that feed on a variety of birds and mammals, and will readily bite humans. …”
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Design and Construction of a Chicken Egg Incubator. by Bwambale Edwin

“…The backyard and small-scale poultry farmers are limited by the dependence on natural incubation or on commercial hatcheries for young birds for breeding. In this project an incandescent bulb heat source incubator is designed and constructed to hatch chicken eggs. …”
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An illustrated key for identification of colour aberrations in alcids with a revision of nomenclature used by K. Cieślińska, P. Bodson, E. Gruber, K. Piening, M. Syposz, K. Wojczulanis-Jakubas, D. Jakubas

“…In recent years, due to the development of cameras and the ability to share observations via social media, reports on observations of aberrantly coloured birds have become more common even in groups of birds breeding in less accessible sites, such as seabirds. …”
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Community ButterflyScaping: How to Move Beyond Butterfly Gardening to Create a Large-Scale Butterfly Habitat by Kathy C. Malone, Wendy Wilber, Gail Hansen, Jaret C. Daniels, Claudia Larsen, Esen Momol

“…Daniels, Claudia Larsen, and Esen Momol, provides developers, community associations, and homeowners with guidance in planning the vegetation in common areas, stormwater management systems, undeveloped areas, and yards to form large-scale habitats attractive to butterflies, pollinators, birds, and other local wildlife. Includes references. …”
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Ilex pedunculosa Longstalk Holly by Edward Gilman

“…The longstalk holly is noted for its ornamental features, such as its pyramidal silhouette, pleasant fragrance, and persistent red fruits that attract birds. The document also covers the plant’s growth requirements, including its preference for well-drained soil and partial shade, as well as its tolerance to wind and cold. …”
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Community ButterflyScaping: How to Move Beyond Butterfly Gardening to Create a Large-Scale Butterfly Habitat by Kathy C. Malone, Wendy Wilber, Gail Hansen, Jaret C. Daniels, Claudia Larsen, Esen Momol

“…Daniels, Claudia Larsen, and Esen Momol, provides developers, community associations, and homeowners with guidance in planning the vegetation in common areas, stormwater management systems, undeveloped areas, and yards to form large-scale habitats attractive to butterflies, pollinators, birds, and other local wildlife. Includes references. …”
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Improved PSO algorithm based on swarm prematurely degree and nonlinear periodic oscillating strategy by Xi-hua ZHU, Ying-hui LI, Ning LI, Bing-kui FAN

“…The inertia weights were adjusted adaptively according to the swarm's premature convergence degree and the particles' fitnesses, and the nonlinear periodic oscillating strategy was used for the learning coefficients, which simulates the decentralization and regroup of the birds when they were foraging. The simulation results on benchmark functions show that the proposed algorithm not only has fast convergent rate and high quality of optimization, but also has good stability.…”
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L’Incipit de Jane Eyre : l’annonce d’une quête by Elise Ouvrard

“…Jane Eyre, a fictitious autobiography published by Charlotte Brontë in 1847, starts with the description of a little girl enthralled by the reading of The History of British Birds. However the child is disturbed by John Reed’s noisy entrance and this interruption can be considered as the limit of the incipit according to the definition that Andrea Del Lungo gives of the term in L’Incipit Romanesque. …”
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Ilex pedunculosa Longstalk Holly by Edward Gilman

“…The longstalk holly is noted for its ornamental features, such as its pyramidal silhouette, pleasant fragrance, and persistent red fruits that attract birds. The document also covers the plant’s growth requirements, including its preference for well-drained soil and partial shade, as well as its tolerance to wind and cold. …”
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Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) by Seth Bybee

“…In recent years dragonflies in particular have been popular with birders as many dragonflies rival birds in wingspan, color, gregariousness, and predictability. …”
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Separation and purification of chicken IgY with its field efficacy in controlling avian influenza in Muscovy ducks by F. M. Radwan, A. A. El-Shemy, N. I. Toaleb, M. A. Bastamy, M. M. Amer

“…After the third injection, the ducks appeared to be normal, and the total mor-tality rate was 23.7% and 45.18% in 1/5 and 1/10 injected birds, respectively, compared to 98.08% in non-injected birds. …”