| avian influenza viruses in wild land birds in northern vietnam. | given a paucity of data on the occurrence of avian influenza viruses (aivs) in wild passerines and other small terrestrial species in southeast asia and the importance of highly pathogenic asian-strain h5n1 outbreaks in humans and domestic poultry in these areas, we focused on surveillance for influenza a viral nucleic acids and antibodies for aivs in wild-caught birds in northern vietnam. four of 197 serum samples collected in 2007 from black-crested bulbul (pycnonotus melanicterus), crow-bille ... | 2012 | 22247391 |
| three new species of feather mite of the genus proterothrix gaud, 1968 (analgoidea: proctophyllodidae: pterodectinae) from passerines in meghalaya, north east india. | three new species of the feather mite subfamily pterodectinae park & atyeo, 1971 are described from passerines of the family muscicapidae fleming and leiothrichidae swainson in india (meghalaya, east jaintia hills district): proterothrix daberti n. sp. from the white-tailed robin cinclidium leucurum (hodgson), p. khahnarensis n. sp. from the blue whistling-thrush myophonus caeruleus (scopoli) (passeriformes: muscicapidae) and p. indica n. sp. from the nepal fulvetta alcippe nipalensis (hodgson) ... | 2014 | 25079815 |
| [composition and characteristics of understory bird communities in monsoon evergreen broadleaved forest of mengyang, xishuangbanna in the dry season]. | understory birds in monsoon evergreen broadleaved forest of mengyang, xishuangbanna, yunnan were sampled using mist nets from october 2008 to march 2009. a total of 1423 individuals of 90 species belonging to 28 families and 7 orders were captured, among which there are 8 dominant bird species, i.e., sliver-breasted broadbill (serilophus lunatus), brown-cheeked fulvatta (alcippe poioicephala), white-throated bulbul (alophoixus pallidus), golden-spectacled warbler (seicercus burkii), white-tailed ... | 2010 | 20672421 |