Global avian influenza situation (2019–2022). Host range expansion asevidence of high pathogenicity avian influenza virus evolution by M. V. Zhiltsova, T. P. Akimova, A. V. Varkentin, M. N. Mitrofanova, A. V. Mazneva, V. P. Semakina, E. S. Vystavkina

“…High pathogenicity avian influenza has a significant negative impact on poultry farming, international trade and health of wild bird populations, therefore the infection requires the utmost attention of the entire international community. …”
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Migratory Dates, Breeding Phenology, and Reproductive Success of European Turtle Doves between Lowlands and Highest Breeding Habitats in North Africa by Ismail Mansouri, Mohamed Mounir, Wafae Squalli, Laila Elhanafi, Mohamed Dakki, Lahsen El Ghadraoui

“…Finally, our results highlight that the turtle dove breeding season is later and shorter at breeding highlands, which might allow this bird to avoid the vigorous climate conditions at mountains and their effect on reproductive success.…”
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Behavioral flexibility is manipulable and it improves flexibility and innovativeness in a new context by Logan, Corina, Lukas, Dieter, Blaisdell, Aaron, Johnson-Ulrich, Zoe, MacPherson, Maggie, Seitz, Benjamin, Sevchik, August, McCune, Kelsey

“…We found that flexibility was manipulable: birds in the manipulated group took fewer trials to pass criterion with increasing reversal number, and they reversed a shade preference in fewer trials by the end of their serial reversals compared to control birds who had only one reversal. …”
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Effects of an 8-week pre-season targeted training on sprinting performance, agility and lower limb muscular asymmetries in elite soccer players by Artur Gołaś, Przemysław Pietraszewski, Robert Roczniok, Artur Terbalyan, Adam Maszczyk, Rafał Opaliński, Adam Zając

“…The training included 6 bodyweight exercises (Bird Dog, Single-Leg Glute Bridge, Dead Bug, Side Plank, Reverse Lunge, and Clamshell), performed unilaterally in 5 sets of 10 repetitions of each exercise. …”
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Development of real-time RT-PCR for N2 subtype avian influenza RNA-virus detection by P. B. Akshalova, A. V. Andriyasov, L. O. Scherbakova, S. N. Kolosov, N. G. Zinyakov, I. A. Chvala, D. B. Andreychuk

“…Currently, N2 subtype avian influenza (AI) virus actively circulates in domestic and wild bird populations and is regularly detected in China, other Asian countries and Russia, particularly in combination with H9 hemagglutinin. …”
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Transportation increases circulating corticosterone levels and decreases central serotonergic activity in a sex dependent manner in Pekin ducks by M.M. Bergman, J.M. Schober, R. Novak, A. Grief, C. Plue, G.S. Fraley

“…Our data supports that when assessing a stress response, care must be given to the sex of the bird and to the relative timepoint of sampling compared to the perceived onset of the stressor.…”
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PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA by S. V. Rudenko, Y. A. Sobolievskyi

“…The study uses critical literature from scholars and leading researchers of the wisdom and philosophy of Native Americans, such as Michael Yellow Bird, J. Baird Callicott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dennis H. …”
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Venereal Diseases Treatment for Merauke’s Marind (Marind-Anim) Tribe in the Dutch Colonial Period by Rosmaida Sinaga, Hafnita Sari Dewi Lubis, Yushar Tanjung, Lister Eva Simangunsong

“…In addition, the government required the cenderawasih bird hunterers to have their genital health checked as a hunting permit. …”
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Elucidating deep-sea thermometric deviations and their consequences for oceanic heat content assessment via high-pressure calibration by Muzi Zhang, Muzi Zhang, Qingquan Sun, Qingquan Sun, Xiaoxue Bai, Xiaoxue Bai, Chi Wu, Chi Wu, Chi Wu

“…This paper extensively investigates the performance of the representative SBE 3 deep-sea thermometer (Sea-Bird Scientific) under various stepwise pressure conditions. …”
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Formaldehyde and propionic acid do not reduce starch gelatinization within a laboratory setting and may not contribute to reduced pellet quality by K.M. Bowen, L.E. Knarr, E.B. Estanich, S.R. Estep, J.S. Moritz

“…Increasing pellet quality has been shown to improve bird performance. The use of antimicrobial feed additives has been increasing due to the risk of salmonellosis to consumers. …”
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Age effects on measurements of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation in laying hens by Meagan E. Abraham, Priscila Serpa, Gregory S. Fraley, Darrin M. Karcher

“…HPA activation responses are complicated by physiological changes while the birds mature and enter production. The objective of this study was to evaluate changes in HPA activation in relation to physiological age of the bird. …”
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“I definitely cannot afford to be feeling poorly if there’s no need to be”: a qualitative evaluation of antiviral uptake following suspected occupational exposure to avian influenz... by Riinu Pae, Lucy Findlater, Richard Amlôt, Fernando Capelastegui, Gavin Dabrera, Clare Humphreys, Jharna Kumbang, Isabel Oliver

“…Results Although participants saw avian influenza as a severe disease, most did not consider themselves susceptible to it because they felt safe in personal protective equipment and knew that bird-to-human transmission was rare. The biggest barrier to uptake and adherence was experiencing side effects, especially if these disrupted day-to-day life or work. …”
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Effect of tree size attributes on fruit production and animal-mediated seed dispersal web in Melia azedarach L. (Chinaberry) in north-west Himalaya, India by Sukumaran Arun, Sasidharan Sarath, Khanduri Vinod Prasad, Suraj, Rawat Shweta, Chand Vaisakhy Prem

“…Native animals, especially birds are facilitating seed dispersal in M. azedarach. …”
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Investigating the Factors Affecting the Growth of Tourism in Kabale Municipality. by Amiidu, Muriisa

“…The researcher concluded that the attractions that Influence the Growth of Tourism are game and bird viewing, quality accommodation, tour operators, image of destination, boating and water sports, craft shops, and tourism centers. …”
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Identification and genetic analysis of the recent Avian pox viruses from infected pigeons and chickens by Amira M. Helal, Osama Mahana, Ali Zanaty, Karim Selim, Mohamed. E. Taha, Mostafa M. Saleh, Mohamed I. Hassan, Mona S. Abdallah

“…Abstract Background Avian pox viruses (APVs) are highly contagious poultry diseases, posing a major economic threat to poultry production systems, and have a high mortality rate among young birds, Infected birds also face condemnation of affected carcasses due to the unsightly appearance of the nodular skin lesions. …”
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Occupationally Acquired American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis by Maria Edileuza Felinto de Brito, Maria Sandra Andrade, Éricka Lima de Almeida, Ângela Cristina Rapela Medeiros, Roberto Pereira Werkhäuser, Ana Isabele Freitas de Araújo, Sinval Pinto Brandão-Filho, Alzira Maria Paiva de Almeida, Eduardo Henrique Gomes Rodrigues

“…We report two occupationally acquired cases of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL): one accidental laboratory autoinoculation by contaminated needlestick while handling an ACL lesion sample, and one acquired during field studies on bird biology. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays of patient lesions were positive for Leishmania, subgenus Viannia. …”
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Organic iron and iodine in laying hen diet: Performance, egg quality, thyroid hormones, antioxidant status, serum and yolk lipids, and egg iron and iodine contents by Sima Sarlak, Sayed Ali Tabeidian, Majid Toghyani, Amir Davar Foroozandeh Shahraki, Mohammad Goli, Mahmood Habibian

“…However, high levels of iron and iodine negatively influence the egg quality and performance of birds. This problem may be overcome by organic forms of minerals. …”
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Sorghum surpasses wheat as a feed grain for broiler chickens following dietary crude protein reductions by Mengzhu Wang, Mehdi Toghyani, Shemil P. Macelline, Andreas Lemme, Andrew J. Holmes, Peter H. Selle, Sonia Y. Liu

“…Maize is rarely included in Australian broiler diets, but birds appear better able to accommodate dietary CP reductions with maize than with wheat-based diets. …”
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Comparing a single dose of xylanase to a double dose or cocktail of non-starch polysaccharide-degrading enzymes in broiler chicken diets by N. Morgan, M.M. Bhuiyan, A. Wallace, R. Hopcroft

“…The double xylanase dose and NSP-ase cocktail increased protein digestibility in birds fed the wheat-sorghum based diet (P=0.041) and increased caecal concentration of butyric acid in birds fed the wheat-maize based diet (P=0.040), and propionic, valeric and lactic acid and Bifidobacteria and Enterobacteria spp. in birds fed the wheat-based diet (P<0.05). …”
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Analysis of marker substitutions in A/chicken/Astrakhan/2171-1/2020 H5N8 isolate of avian influenza virus recovered in the Astrakhan Oblast by N. G. Zinyakov, A. V. Andriyasov, Ye. V. Ovchinnikova, A. A. Kozlov, P. D. Zhestkov, D. B. Andreychuk, I. A. Chvala

“…At the end of 2020, a large-scale bird death was registered at one of the poultry farms in the Astrakhan region, the cause of which was avian influenza. …”
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