The threatened Kirtland’s warbler Dendroica 25 pairs and at least nine nests fledged young. One male ringed as a fledgling returned to breed in two subsequent kirtlandii breeds in stands of young jack pine Pinus banksiana growing on well-drained soils in Michigan, years. After a 19-year period of population stability, the Kirtland’s warbler population increased four-fold during USA. We summariz...

Invasive species can take advantage of resources unexploited by natives (opportunism hypothesis) or they can exploit the same resources but more aggressively or efficiently (competition hypothesis), thus impacting native species. However, invasive species tend to exploit anthropogenic habitats that are inefficiently used by natives such as urban environments. Focusing on the ring-necked parakee...

We report an aberrant, blue-colored, Orange-chinned Parakeet from a population inhabiting urban area in Colombia. This is the first documented record of wild-blue mutant for this species through its natural distributional range. Our observations suggest that mutation occurs at very low frequency and does not appear to display any selective advantage could drive change.

Avian chlamydiosis is one of the most important infectious diseases of birds. Despite the rapid growth of exotic bird populations in Iran, there is little or no information on the specific infections that these types of birds carry. In this study, conventional isolation methods were used in cell culture to study occurrence of infection in pet birds. Samples from the conjunctiva, choana, and clo...

Wildlife photo-identification is a commonly used technique to identify and track individuals of wild animal populations over time. It has various applications in behavior and population demography studies. Nowadays, mostly due to large and labor-intensive image data sets, automated photo-identification is an emerging research topic. In this paper, the first steps towards automatic individual id...

The analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in ambient air requires the tedious experimental steps of both sampling and pretreatment (e.g., extraction or clean-up). To replace pre-existing conventional methods, a simple, rapid, and novel technique was developed to measure gas-particle fractionation of PAH in ambient air based on 'sorbent tube-thermal desorption-gas chromatograph-mass...