Shore Birds Eating Small Fish

identification of fish-eating birds

there are 61 species in 14 families of fish-eating birds in iran. the fish-eating birds of the north of iran belong to 41 species in 10 families which include 67.2 percent of total fish eating bird species and 71% of fish-eating bird’s family of iran. resident birds constitute 13% of the fisheating birds of the caspian sea coasts and the rest are migratory in autumn and winter. there exist 3 ...

Migration patterns affect biomagnifying contaminant concentrations in fish-eating birds.

Forage fish and near - shore habitat associations

Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) has been identified as a critical species for North Pacific marine ecosystems and historically has been a commercially important species. In order to improve understanding of this key species, datasets which describe herring spawn activities were integrated with known habitat information and analyzed to determine which habitat has been critical for herring survi...

First record of Contracaecum spp. (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in fish-eating birds from Zimbabwe.

Endoparasites of fish-eating birds, Phalacrocorax africanus, P. carbo, Anhinga melanogaster and Ardea cinerea collected from Lake Chivero near Harare, Zimbabwe, were investigated. Adult Contracaecum spp. were found in the gastrointestinal tract (prevalence 100 % in P. africanus, P. carbo and A. melanogaster; 25 % in A. cinerea). Parasite intensity was 11-24 (mean 19) in P. africanus, 4-10 (mean...

Leprosy and Fish Eating

of leprosy. On the same page another proposition is put forward, namely, that the bacillus of leprosy is, like that of tuberculosis, well nigh ubiquitous, and that it assumes activity under the stimulus of some ingredient supplied by fish in an early stage of decomposition ; having once assumed such activity, it can reproduce itself indefinitely in the tissues of the human body, and may be tran...