An Enigmatic Wild Passerine Mortality Event in the Eastern United States by Sabrina S. Greening, Julie C. Ellis, Nicole L. Lewis, David B. Needle, Cristina M. Tato, Susan Knowles, Valerie Shearn-Bochsler, Jaimie L. Miller, Daniel A Grear, Jeffrey M. Lorch, David S. Blehert, Caitlin Burrell, Lisa A. Murphy, Erica A. Miller, C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, Andrea J. Ayala, W. Kelley Thomas, Joseph L. Sevigny, Lawrence M. Gordon, Tessa Baillargeon, Lusajo Mwakibete, Megan Kirchgessner, Christine L. Casey, Ethan Barton, Michael J. Yabsley, Eman Anis, Roderick B. Gagne, Patrice Klein, Cindy Driscoll, Chelsea A. Sykes, Robert H. Poppenga, Nicole M. Nemeth

“…Collective efforts included live bird and carcass collections; submission to diagnostic laboratories and evaluation; information sharing; and coordinated messaging to stakeholders and interested parties. …”
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“Restoration of the Past Scenery-Realm”: A Research on the Scenery-Realm Restoration of Jiang’s Fu Garden During Qing Dynasty in the Historical Revolution of the Humble Administrat... by Qian BIAN

“…These include the natural positioning and appropriate utility of the garden’s architectures, the continuous fragrance and seasonal scenery of flowers and trees, and the scene where animals, like birds and fish, return to their dwellings and are naturally drawn toward humans. …”
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First Detection of <i>Alphacoronavirus</i> in Bats from the World’s Largest Wetland, the Pantanal, Brazil by Tayane B. S. Magalhães, Amanda de O. Viana, Thiago B. F. Semedo, Juliane S. Saldanha, Nicole A. dos Reis, Nathalia de A. Pereira, Rachel V. P. de Barros, Hannah R. Miranda, Gabriella C. Almeida, Desyrée Y. S. R. Ozaki, Giovana S. Caleiro, Gustavo O. Fenner, Fernanda P. Vizu, Theo Kraiser, Thais P. Carvalho, Luciano M. Thomazelli, Erick G. Dorlass, Clarice W. Arns, Helena L. Ferreira, Erika Hingst-Zaher, Rogério Vieira Rossi, Guilherme S. T. Garbino, Edison L. Durigon, Jansen de Araujo, Daniel M. de Aguiar

“…Coronaviruses (CoV) infect a wide variety of hosts, causing epidemics in humans, birds, and mammals over the years. Bats (order Chiroptera) are one of the natural hosts of the Coronaviridae family. …”
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Multimodal lung cancer theranostics via manganese phosphate/quercetin particle by Chong Qiu, Fei Xia, Qingchao Tu, Huan Tang, Yinan Liu, Hongda Liu, Chen Wang, HaiLu Yao, Linying Zhong, Yuanfeng Fu, Pengbo Guo, Weiqi Chen, Xinyu Zhou, Li Zou, Licheng Gan, Jiawei Yan, Yichong Hou, Junzhe Zhang, Huanhuan Pang, Yuqing Meng, Qiaoli Shi, Guang Han, Xijun Wang, Jigang Wang

“…In vitro and in vivo experiments demonstrated that AHA@MnP/QCT NPs enabled non-invasive imaging and tumor treatment, which presented a one-stone-for-two-birds strategy for combining tumor diagnosis and treatment, with broad potential for clinical application in non-small cell lung cancer therapy. …”
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Liver morphometry and histopathology effects in Astyanax lacustris exposed to lambda-cyhalothrin pyrethroid insecticide by Tiago Venancio da Silva, André Luiz do Nascimento Silva, Karine Nathiele Nogueira Farias, Carla Leticia Gediel Rivero Wendt, Lucas de Oliveira Brasileiro, Edilaine Fogaça, Sabrina Fuzer Gonçalves, Brenda de Oliveira Martins, Maria Eduarda Corona Garcia, Lilian Franco-Belussi, Carlos Eurico S. Fernandes

“…Lambda-cyhalothrin (LC) is a pyrethroid insecticide employed to manage various arthropods as an alternative to persistent insecticides with minimized toxic effects on birds and mammals. However, LC causes oxidative and neurotoxic damages in fish Danio rerio. …”
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Correction: Examining antibiotic use in Kenya: farmers’ knowledge and practices in addressing antibiotic resistance by Harrison Rware, Kansiime K. Monica, Mugambi Idah, Makale Fernadis, Ikiror Davis, Wako Buke, Danielsen Solveig, Karanja Daniel, Chacha Duncan, Byskov Morten, Hyams Keith

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Interrelationship of Nutrition and Immunity by Gary D. Butcher, Richard D. Miles

“… The immune system benefits greatly from proper nutrition of the bird. Not only does the immune system benefit directly from proper nutrition, but indirectly proper nutrition will also prepare the bird for periods of stress, reducing the adverse effects of stress and enhancing recovery from stressful periods. …”
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Interrelationship of Nutrition and Immunity by Gary D. Butcher, Richard D. Miles

“… The immune system benefits greatly from proper nutrition of the bird. Not only does the immune system benefit directly from proper nutrition, but indirectly proper nutrition will also prepare the bird for periods of stress, reducing the adverse effects of stress and enhancing recovery from stressful periods. …”
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Avian Ecopedagogies: Women Ornithologists and Environmental Education in Late Nineteenth-Century America by Clara Contreras Ameduri

“…It aims to discuss how these texts allowed American female ornithologists to develop ecopedagogical strategies against bird extinction by encouraging children’s involvement in early animal welfare and nature conservation movements, this fomenting the development of environmental awareness from an early age at a time of recurrent bird slaughter. …”
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Ottoman Hunting Organization of Silistra Sanjak in The 16th Century by Mustafa ALKAN, Ferdi GÖKBUĞA

“…In this respect, the meaning of hunting ceremony gains great importance. Hunting bird-growing organization in Ottoman Empire palace had been institutionalized since early years. …”
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Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Confirmed in Argentine Bahiagrass in Northeastern Florida by Jacque Breman, James DeValerio, Amanda Gevens, Richard Cullen, W. Bird

“…Gevens, R. Cullen, and W. Bird, describes this viral disease of Argentine bahiagrass which has appeared in northeast Florida, the pathogen and hosts, symptoms, and disease management. …”
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Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Confirmed in Argentine Bahiagrass in Northeastern Florida by Jacque Breman, James DeValerio, Amanda Gevens, Richard Cullen, W. Bird

“…Gevens, R. Cullen, and W. Bird, describes this viral disease of Argentine bahiagrass which has appeared in northeast Florida, the pathogen and hosts, symptoms, and disease management. …”
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Could the Mexica toztli have been a sun parakeet? Connecting Mexica featherwork to South America by Louise Deglin

“…Despite the early interest of Europeans in the American featherwork, some bird species used by the amanteca remain undetermined to this day. …”
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Using Personality Type Preferences to Enhance Team Work in Extension Programs by J. Brianne Bird, Alexa J. Lamm, Hannah Carter

“…Written by J. Brianne Bird, Alexa J. Lamm, and Hannah Carter, and published by the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, September 2016. …”
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Using Personality Type Preferences to Enhance Team Work in Extension Programs by J. Brianne Bird, Alexa J. Lamm, Hannah Carter

“…Written by J. Brianne Bird, Alexa J. Lamm, and Hannah Carter, and published by the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, September 2016. …”
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North American avian species that migrate in flocks show greater long-term non-breeding range shift rates by Stephen H. Vickers, Timothy D. Meehan, Nicole L. Michel, Aldina M. A. Franco, James J. Gilroy

“…Methods Here we used 50 years of North American Breeding Bird Survey and Audubon Christmas Bird Count data to test the prediction that breeding and/or non-breeding range-shifts are more prevalent among flocking migrants, which possess a capacity for rapid social transmission of novel migration routes. …”
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Inventory and ecology of avifauna in Universitas Andalas campus complex, Indonesia by Adib S. Dewangga, Muhammad N. Janra

“…The study recorded 38 bird species with total 418 individuals; they belong to 20 families and 7 orders. …”
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“El rostro de los días”: sobre la corporalidad y las almas entre los mayas k’iche’ de Santiago Momostenango by Alonso Zamora Corona

“…Notable is the existence among the momostecos of the chikop, a soul with the form of a bird very similar to the “bird of the heart” of the Maya Tzeltal, which can be punished by the ancestral deities when people forget to do offerings at their patrilineage’s altars.…”
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Studies on the Feeding Habits of Lutzomyia (Lutzomyia) longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) Populations from Endemic Areas of American Visceral Le... by Margarete Martins dos Santos Afonso, Rosemere Duarte, José Carlos Miranda, Lindenbergh Caranha, Elizabeth Ferreira Rangel

“…The ELISA technique was applied using bird, dog, goat, opossum, equine, feline, human, sheep, and rodent antisera to analyze 609 females, resulting in an overall positivity of 60%. …”
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Flocking Behavior of Boids Driven by Hyperchaotic MACM System by Rosa Martha López-gutiérrez, Lılıana Cardoza Avendaño, Ana Medina, Cesar Cruz Hernández

“…In the present work a detailed study is presented, on the design, programming, and investigation of the behavior of flocking (Movement type flock), through the model of BOIDS, for its acronym in English "Bird Oid Object" (Object type bird), which was devised by Craig Reynolds in 1986. …”
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