| avian bornaviruses in north american gulls. | avian bornaviruses, recently described members of the family bornaviridae, have been isolated from captive parrots and passerines as well as wild waterfowl in which they may cause lethal neurologic disease. we report detection of avian bornavirus rna in the brains of apparently healthy gulls. we tested 439 gull brain samples from 18 states, primarily in the northeastern us, using a reverse-transcriptase pcr assay with primers designed to detect a conserved region of the bornavirus m gene. nine b ... | 2015 | 25973630 |
| managing birds and controlling aircraft in the kennedy airport-jamaica bay wildlife refuge complex: the need for hard data and soft opinions. | during the 1980s, the exponential growth of laughing gull (larus atricilla) colonies, from 15 to about 7600 nests in 1990, in the jamaica bay wildlife refuge and a correlated increase in the bird-strike rate at nearby john f. kennedy international airport (new york city) led to a controversy between wildlife and airport managers over the elimination of the colonies. in this paper, we review data to evaluate if: (1) the colonies have increased the level of risk to the flying public; (2) on-colony ... | 2001 | 11443385 |