Cernek - a new bird ringing station in Turkey

Information System for Bird Ringing: ”Tipu”

Ringing in the New Year

www.landesbioscience.com oxidative Medicine and cellular Longevity 1 The excitement and enthusiasm for the New Year brings with it new thoughts and innovative promises for pioneering avenues of drug discovery and new treatment strategies for a host of disorders. Such thinking is not only optimistic, but also necessary considering the economic costs healthcare brings to any country. For example,...

New records of chewing lice (Phthiraptera) from some bird species in Turkey.

OBJECTIVE This study was carried out to detect chewing-lice found on some birds in Turkey. METHODS For this aim, a Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto), a budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) and a marbled duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris) were examined for the louse. RESULTS Columbicola bacillus (Giebel, 1866) was found on a Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto), Afrime...

A New Record of Diderma (Myxomycetes) from Turkey

Turkey is a favourite place for the growth and the development of myxomycete due to its climatic conditions and flora. During routine field trips to several locations of Gökçeada (Çanakkale), which is the largest island of Turkey, numerous samples of myxomycetes were collected. According to the available checklists, Diderma effusum (Schw.) Morgan records for the first time from Turkey. It has b...

A new bird in the hand …

of red ant would carry caterpillars into their nests but that adult butterflies only emerged from the nests of just one species, Myrmica sabuteli. Thomas' work shifted to a study of the five different red ant species in the habitat, which revealed that each thrived under slightly different conditions. M. sabuteli needed warm conditions and highly grazed sward to prosper. Thomas then went back t...