| occurrence of campylobacter jejuni in free-living wild birds from japan. | campylobacter jejuni was isolated from 44 of 313 free-living birds from japan. the highest isolation rate was found in 30 of 87 (34%) crows (corvus levaillanti and corvus corone), followed by 2 of 10 (20%) blue magpies (cyanopica cyanus), 5 of 35 (14%) gray starlings (sturnus cineraceus), 2 of 16 (13%) domestic pigeons (columbia livia domestica), 4 of 36 (11%) bulbuls (hypsipetes amaurotis), and 1 of 62 (2%) eastern turtledoves (streptopelia orientalis). one-fourth of the contents of the crop an ... | 1988 | 3411703 |
| occurrence of yersinia enterocolitica in wild-living birds and japanese serows. | yersinia spp. were isolated from 34 of 500 birds representing nine species. the highest isolation rate, 5 of 21 (23.8%), was found in blue magpies (cyanopia cyanus), followed by pheasants (phasianus colchicus tohkaidi), 5 of 33 (15.2%); gray starlings (sturnus cineraceus), 6 of 57 (10.5%); tree sparrows (passer montanus), 1 of 14 (7.1%); bulbuls (hypsipetes amaurotis), 4 of 57 (7.0%); crows (corvus levailantii or corvus corone), 7 of 117 (6.0%); eastern turtledoves (streptopelia orientalis), 4 o ... | 1985 | 3977310 |
| isolation of salmonella infantis and salmonella anatum from a grey starling (sturnus cineraceus temminck) in the city of sapporo. | | 1974 | 4418032 |
| gizzard spirurid nematode acuaria skrjabini in japanese tree sparrows and a gray starling from tokyo. | gastrointestinal helminths were collected from 49 japanese tree sparrows (passer montanus saturatus) in tokyo, japan. in 16 sparrows, 1-9 (average, 3.5) gizzard spirurid nematodes (acuaria skrjabini ozerskaya, 1926) were found embedded in the mucosa of the gizzard. in addition, capillaria sp., platynosomum passeri yamashita et tsumura, 1962, and a hymenolepidid cestode were collected from 1, 2, and 1 sparrows, respectively. a sexually mature a. skrjabini female and 3 males were found also in a y ... | 2005 | 15997189 |
| effects of ectostriatal lesions on discriminations of conspecific, species and familiar objects in pigeons. | pigeons were trained on three visual discrimination tasks, that is (1) pigeon vs. other birds discrimination; (2) java sparrow vs. grey starling discrimination; and (3) home cage vs. food tray discrimination. then the ectostriatum or the wulst was bilaterally damaged. the wulst lesions did not cause deficits in any tasks. the ectostriatal lesions impaired the species discrimination (java sparrow vs. grey starling) but not the conspecific discrimination (pigeon vs. other birds). some birds showed ... | 1996 | 8950015 |