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| x name | x image | x Also Typed With | x Database(s) for this topic | x article |
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| x Influenza |
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Disease or medical condition | Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance |
Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses). The name influenza comes from the Italian: influenza, meaning "influence", (Latin:...
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| x Bird |
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Organism Classification | Cal/Ecotox |
Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most diverse tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the...
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| Book Subject | Avibase | |||
| Website Category | Bird Point Count Database | |||
| Character Species | World Bird Database | |||
| Exhibition subject | Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer | |||
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| x Avian flu | Disease or medical condition | Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance |
Avian influenza, sometimes Avian flu, and commonly Bird flu refers to "influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds."
"Bird flu" is a phrase similar to "Swine flu", "Dog flu", "Horse flu", or "Human flu" in that it refers to an illness caused by any...
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| x Water | Quotation Subject | USGS National Water Information System |
Water has been important to all peoples of the earth, and it is rich in spiritual tradition.
Water is one of the four classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy and science. It was commonly associated with the qualities of emotion and intuition....
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| x Management | Field Of Study | Managed Areas Database |
Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of...
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| x Amphibian |
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Organism Classification | Cal/Ecotox |
Amphibians (class Amphibia), such as frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and gymnophiona, are cold-blooded animals that metamorphose from a juvenile, water-breathing form to an adult, air-breathing form. Typically, amphibians have four limbs. Unlike...
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| x Reptile |
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Organism Classification | Cal/Ecotox |
Reptiles, or members of the class Reptilia, are air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scales as opposed to hair or feathers. They are tetrapods (having or having descended from vertebrates with four limbs) and amniotes,...
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| x Physiology |
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Field Of Study | Cal/Ecotox |
Physiology (from Greek φύσις, physis, "nature, origin"; and -λογία, -logia) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. Physiology has traditionally been divided between plant physiology and animal...
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| x Toxicology | Cal/Ecotox |
Toxicology (from the Greek words toxicos and logos) is the study of the adverse effects of chemicals on living organisms. It is the study of symptoms, mechanisms, treatments and detection of poisoning, especially the poisoning of people.
Mathieu...
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| x Mammal |
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Organism Classification | Cal/Ecotox |
Mammals (formally Mammalia) are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, which they use in feeding their young. They are also characterized by the possession of sweat glands, hair, three...
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| x Ecology |
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Field Of Study | Cal/Ecotox |
Ecology is the scientific study of the distribution and abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their natural environment. . The environment of an organism includes physical properties, which can be described as the sum of local...
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| x Fish |
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Ingredient | Cal/Ecotox |
Fish are aquatic vertebrate animals that are typically ectothermic (previously cold-blooded), covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fish are abundant in the sea and in fresh water, with species...
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| x Point count survey | Data collection method | Bird Point Count Database |
A method for sampling birds that typically involves one of more observers standing at a point in space marking observations of birds detected by sight and sound over a period of time. Detection times are often subdivided into 3, 5 and 10 minutes...
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| Program activity | Avian Knowledge Network | |||
| Published Work | North American Breeding Bird Survey | |||
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| x Important Bird Area | World Bird Database |
An Important Bird Area (IBA) is an area designated as being globally important habitat for the conservation of bird populations. Currently there are about 10,000 IBAs worldwide. The program was developed by BirdLife International.
IBAs are...
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| x Endemic Bird Area | World Bird Database | |||
| x Protected area |
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Type/domain equivalent topic | World Database on Protected Areas |
Protected areas are locations which receive protection because of their environmental, cultural or similar value. A large number of kinds of protected area exist which vary by level of protection and by the enabling laws of each country or rules of...
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| x Breeding Bird Atlas | Data collection method | Breeding Bird Atlas Explorer |
Breeding Bird Atlases are population survey projects that are designed
to cover large areas using a grid-based system, and are generally organized at the state or provincial
level. Breeding evidence for each species is categorized as ...
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| x Ant | Organism Classification | Global Ant Database |
Ants are social insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related families of wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the mid-Cretaceous period between 110 and 130 million years ago and...
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| x Nutrition |
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Field Of Study | USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference |
Nutrition (also called nourishment or aliment) is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary (in the form of food) to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with good nutrition.
The diet of an...
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| x Food |
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Type/domain equivalent topic | USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference |
The food industry is the complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the...
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| x Photograph |
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Visual Art Medium | Oriental Bird Club Image Database |
A photograph (often shortened to photo or pic (picture)) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera,...
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| x Bird ringing |
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Avian Knowledge Network |
Bird ringing (also known as bird banding) is an aid to studying wild birds, by attaching a small individually numbered metal or plastic ring to their legs or wings, so that various aspects of the bird's life can be studied by the ability to re-find...
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| x Citizen science | Website Category | Avian Knowledge Network |
Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as...
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| x Worm-eating Warbler |
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Organism Classification | LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorus) is a small New World warbler. It is the only species classified in the genus Helmitheros.
It is 13 cm long and weighs 13 g. It is relatively plain with olive-brown upperparts and light-coloured...
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| x Hooded Warbler |
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Organism Classification | LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Hooded Warbler, Wilsonia citrina, is a New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America and across the eastern USA and into southernmost Canada, (Ontario). It is migratory, wintering in Central America and the West Indies. Hooded Warblers...
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| x Scarlet Tanager |
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Organism Classification | LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Scarlet Tanager, Piranga olivacea, is a medium-sized American songbird. Traditionally placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae) it is now thought to be much closer to cardinals (Cardinalidae). With their coloration, they somewhat remind of the...
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| x Acadian Flycatcher |
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Organism Classification | LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Acadian Flycatcher or Green-crested Flycatcher, Empidonax virescens, is a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.
Adults have olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a white eye ring,...
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| x Golden-winged Warbler |
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Organism Classification | LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Golden-winged Warbler, Vermivora chrysoptera, is a New World warbler, 11.6 cm long and weighing 8.5 g. It breeds in eastern North America in southeastern Canada and the eastern USA. Its range is extending northwards, but in the south it is being...
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| x Yellow-breasted Chat |
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Organism Classification | LitCentral: Land Bird Edition |
The Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) is a large songbird, formerly considered the most atypical member of the New World warbler family, though the long-standing suspicion that it does not actually belong there has recently been confirmed. Its...
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| x Population growth |
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Global Populations Dynamics Database |
Population growth is the change in population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals in a population using "per unit time" for measurement. The term population growth can technically refer to any species, but...
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| x Literature |
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Website Category | Raptor Information System |
Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter). In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction.
The word "literature" has...
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| x Bird of prey |
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Organism Classification | Raptor Information System |
Birds of prey are birds that hunt for food primarily on the wing, using their keen senses, especially vision. Their talons and beaks tend to be relatively large, powerful and adapted for tearing and/or piercing flesh. The term "raptor" is derived...
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| x Jehovah's Witnesses | ||||