Telomere length varies with sex, hatching rank and year of birth in the Little Owl, Athene noctua by Criscuolo, François, Fache, Inès, Scaar, Bertrand, Zahn, Sandrine, Bleu, Josefa

“…In this study, we investigated the effects of hatching rank, year of birth (2014 to 2017), sex and nest environment on TL of 137 Little Owls nestlings (Athene noctua). …”
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Field margins as substitute habitat for the conservation of birds in agricultural wetlands by Mallet, Pierre, Bechet, Arnaud, Sirami, Clelia, Mesleard, Francois, Blanchon, Thomas, Calatayud, Francois, Dagonet, Thomas, Gaget, Elie, Leray, Carole, Galewski, Thomas

“…Given the increasing pressure on agricultural land, it is necessary to identify conservation measures that consume little productive land. We tested the compensation hypothesis which states that field margins may represent substitute habitats for bird species in agricultural wetlands. …”
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Flann O’Brien’s Anti-Manifestos by Julian HANNA

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Nesting Island Creation for Wading Birds by C. Leann White, Peter C. Frederick, Martin B. Main, James A. Rodgers, Jr.

“… Many long-legged wading birds such as little blue herons (Egretta caerulea), great blue herons (Ardea herodius), and great egrets (Ardea albus) nest together in large aggregations called breeding colonies. …”
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Nesting Island Creation for Wading Birds by C. Leann White, Peter C. Frederick, Martin B. Main, James A. Rodgers, Jr.

“… Many long-legged wading birds such as little blue herons (Egretta caerulea), great blue herons (Ardea herodius), and great egrets (Ardea albus) nest together in large aggregations called breeding colonies. …”
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Identifying focus zones for the conservation and promotion of priority birds in Swiss farmland by Noëlle Klein, Antoine Adde, Adrienne Grêt‐Regamey, Antoine Guisan, Felix Herzog, Philippe Jeanneret, Sonja Kay

“…Multivariate clustering was used to identify zones that should be preserved (low management impact, high bird potential) and zones where conservation measures could be promoted (high management impact, high bird potential). …”
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Effects of farming specialisation on grassland birds in Mediterranean High Nature Value farmland by Joana Santana, Pedro J. Leitão, Paulo Flores Ribeiro, Pedro Beja, Ângela Lomba, Rui Pedroso, Rui Morgado, Ricardo C. Martins, Inês Catry, Ana Teresa Marques, Luís Reino, Francisco Moreira

“…We investigated how specialisation affects birds in open farmland of southern Portugal, by analysing spatial associations between farming systems, land uses, and birds’ species richness and occurrence. …”
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Combining radio-telemetry and radar measurements to test optimal foraging in an aerial insectivore bird by Itai Bloch, David Troupin, Sivan Toledo, Ran Nathan, Nir Sapir

“…This study, uniquely combining BirdScan-MR1 radar and the Advanced Tracking and Localization of Animals in Real-Life Systems biotelemetry system, investigates the foraging dynamics of Little Swifts (Apus affinis) in response to insect movements over Israel’s Hula Valley. …”
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Effects of Blast Loading on Prestressed Girder Bridges by William F. Cofer, Debra S. Matthews, David I. McLean

“…Yet, very little is known about how prestressed concrete bridges respond to blast loading.…”
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Hungry wintering birds and angry farmers: Crop damage and management implications in a protected wetland in China by Lanyan Zhong, Yanfang Li, Yalong Li, Chuanyin Dai

“…The majority of the farmers interviewed (81.6 %) reported adopting measures to cope with birds’ crop exploitation, but with little effect. …”
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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Three Species of Pet Birds in Northwest China by Wei Cong, Qing-Feng Meng, Xiao-Feng Shan, Wu-Wen Sun, Si-Yuan Qin, Xiao-Xuan Zhang, Si-Yang Huang, Ai-Dong Qian

“…Hepatitis E virus (HEV), the causative agent of hepatitis E, has been reported in a wide variety of animals, including birds, but little is known of HEV infection in pet birds in northwest China. …”
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The quest for self in Italian secondary schools: Bridging literature and philosophy by Giacomo Romano

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Bridging Strategy from Both Business Economics and Design Sciences by Jörn Bühring, Brigitte Borja de Mozota, Patricia A. Moore

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Quails of Stavropol Region: Autumn Food Habits by Anatoly P. Kaledin, Lyubov V. Malovichko, Alexander G. Rezanov, Lyudmila S. Drozdova, Andiya T. Serikbayeva

“…Quails are nestling ground-dwelling birds, feeding on seeds and crawling insects. Wild quails inhabit many parts of Russia. …”
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Wetland birds of middle Vistula River during breeding season: the impact of human activities on the distribution, abundance and richness of species by Dariusz Bukaciński, Monika Bukacińska, Arkadiusz Buczyński

“…Such a man-made environment almost excludes the possibility of breeding of birds within a riverbed. Only single pairs of lapwings (Vanellus vanellus), common sandpipers (Actitis hypoleucos), little ringed plovers (Charadrius dubius) and goosanders (Mergus merganser) occurred here, sporadically also common terns (Sterna hirundo) (Table 2a,b). …”
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Dynamic Property Analysis of Orthotropic Bridge Deck with Local Fatigue Crack by Zhao Li, Jiarui Zhang, Yaoyang Zhu, Jianwei Tu

“…A natural frequency analysis was performed to evaluate the change in the vibration characteristics due to localized damage, together with a dynamic analysis that considered a vehicle traveling on the bridge. The results show that the initiation and propagation of several typical cracks have little influence on the lower modes of the overall structure and great influence on the high-order modes of the substructure. …”
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Seismic Fragility Analysis of Self-Anchored Suspension Bridge Considering Damping Effect by Xiangong Zhou, Lei Cao, Heng Han, Xiaobo Zheng, Hanhao Zhang, Zhiqing Zhang

“…For this type of bridge, the current code only gives the overall seismic design principle, and there is little research on seismic fragility in the existing literature. …”
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Bridging the gap: Crypto users’ sense-making of a historical market crisis by Annika Aebli, Fabienne Silberstein-Bamford

“…Yet, while crypto’s notion of ‘trust-free’ money has been heavily questioned, there is little research on how users seek to overcome cryptocurrencies’ promissory gap. …”
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New records of sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) feeding on leaves of birch (Betula sp.) in Slovakia by Šimon Marko, Ján Macek, Marko Prous, Ladislav Roller

“…New data on the distribution of 11 Symphyta species phyllophagous on birch trees (Betula L.) are presented. Dineura virididorsata (Retzius, 1783), Heterarthrus nemoratus (Fallén, 1808), Nematinus caledonicus (Cameron, 1882), Pamphilius varius (Audinet-Serville, 1823), and Pristiphora alpestris (Konow, 1903) are reported from Slovakia for the first time. …”
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Bridging Gaps: Enhancing Holistic Mathematics Support in the Transition from Secondary School to University by Alfred Msomi, Ekaterina Rzyankina

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