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In an experiment conducted to evaluate the performance of different chicken breeds, what would be the recommended number of replications per treatment and the number of birds per replication?
16 September 2020 1,812 9 View
I carried out bird survey twice a month ( at interval of 15 days) for 8 months period following same transect line and point count stations. Is there any hard and fast rule or standard procedure...
14 September 2020 528 1 View
The short answer is yes, your bird can not become infected by this strain of coronavirus and so you can also not get the virus from your birds. To date, that appears to be true for dogs and...
08 September 2020 4,281 17 View
I have tried Trizol and Quiagen RNEasy kits to isolate RNA from waterfowl feces (I added influenza virus in serial dilutions to some feces samples as a positive control). However none of the...
21 August 2020 3,862 3 View
Hello everybody! Fallback fruits are fruits of low nutritional value that in periods of fruit scarcity become the filler or staple of a frugivorous animal. Fallbacks seem to be well-studied in...
18 August 2020 8,100 4 View
I assume this threshold (3 or 5%) as commonly used in several papers but I'm not sure if there is a world-recognized reference to state this. thanks for suggestions.
21 July 2020 2,151 8 View
In the forest birds are using different layers of forest trees from the soil to the canopy. Some birds such as iberian chiffchaffs are using the soil ground to set their nests while other species...
19 July 2020 2,745 1 View
We can predict many things and make projections on Corona crisis based on available data but unluckily, the quality of data and their source are not beyond doubt. The previous projections based on...
09 July 2020 7,840 1 View
I have obtained a Tafel plot from CV experiment for the oxidation of nitrite (NaNO2). Scan rate- 0.05 V/s, working electrode- GCE, counter electrode- Pt wire, reference electrode- Ag/AgCl (3M),...
30 June 2020 1,476 0 View
I'm looking for datasets (or databases) in which the body mass of predator and prey are presented. I'm specifically interested in terrestrial predators (snakes, mammals, birds). An example of is...
17 June 2020 2,598 9 View
Dear all, I'm intended to model the effects of a number of categorical factors (season, sex, age) on the proportion of lean birds using a beta regression (R-package 'betareg'). The dependent...
13 June 2020 955 2 View
HawkWatch International's education team got this great question from a kindergartener in class. I have no idea. Would love to get a scientifically accurate answer back to the kid! Any...
26 May 2020 5,458 3 View
Does anyone have any experience on how to set standards and manage responses and action on escaped birds from zoos? We found a greater flamingo at Schinias-National Park near Athens and it may...
19 May 2020 7,582 2 View
Hi, we decided to go back to our origins and relaunched the Parrot Researchers Group. The mission of the Parrot Researchers Group (PRG; formerly known also as Working Group Psittaciformes or as...
11 May 2020 4,532 45 View
I am conducting a study using wildlife traits, however, home range data is limited. Pd. I have already used data from Tamburello et al. 2015, but I still have lots of species without home range data.
01 May 2020 6,750 2 View
The literature reveals that the Corona Virus was first characterized during the decade of 1960. Since its characterization, the virus was held responsible for causing upper respiratory tract...
15 April 2020 6,028 4 View
Hello! I am designing an experiment to test mimetic seed dispersal by frugivorous birds in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. We are planning present a number of seeds, still on their branches, to...
23 March 2020 3,892 5 View
The effect of two levels of Cl in drinking water of broilers was studied. 30 birds in three groups. weekly feed intake was recorded per treatment. the problem was: no effort was made to divide the...
07 February 2020 7,257 7 View
Does anyone have suggestions for a user-friendly, open source, automated process for identifying species-specific bird vocalizations from audio recordings? I'm currently teaching myself to use...
05 February 2020 2,433 3 View
Nematodes were found in some birds during the postmortem. I would appreciate if somebody expert in nematode taxonomy would help in the identification ...
31 January 2020 7,824 3 View
Hi everyone! I am working nowadays with bird cervical vertebrae and I haven trying to find this reference for a while, but it has been imposible to me to do it. As it is an old research is quite...
22 January 2020 1,842 2 View
Hi, I am looking at two saltmarsh sites, one managed, one unmanaged, and I need to be able to determine whether there is a significant difference between the two avian populations, and whether it...
20 January 2020 5,244 3 View
Hello Researchers, I would like to know if birds feed on juices of tree that intoxicates humans. Does birds get intoxicated too after drinking it? Is there any Research on the same?
18 January 2020 6,891 3 View
I was at a broiler farm recently which had birds 3-day old broiler chick having leg problem. It was attirbuted to feed as DCP was added to the feed and the challenge reduce gradually, but could it...
16 January 2020 755 4 View