Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, but the landscape that greets them has changed. Weather patterns and agricultural practices ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 25, 2023
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Avian influenza has been detected in a second northern Indiana duck farm, state officials said Tuesday.
Veterinary medicine
Apr 13, 2022
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Knowing where migrating birds came from and where they're headed is essential for their conservation and management. For ducks, most of this information comes from long-term bird-banding programs, but this type of research ...
Ecology
Apr 19, 2017
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Authorities in south-west France began a cull of hundreds of thousands of ducks Thursday as authorities scramble to contain an outbreak of a virulent strain of bird flu sweeping Europe.
Ecology
Jan 5, 2017
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University of Akron researchers discovered leptin in the mallard duck, peregrine falcon and zebra finch, marking the first time the hormone has been found in birds.
Plants & Animals
Mar 24, 2014
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Hope is the thing with feathers, poet Emily Dickinson wrote. For Richard Thorns, the feathers are pink.
Ecology
Oct 23, 2017
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Eighth-grade science students have used a 3-D printer to create a prosthetic leg for a duck found without a foot shortly after he hatched.
Plants & Animals
Jan 5, 2018
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The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's 77th annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of about 2.9 million birds, down from 3.4 million last year.
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2024
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A bird flu outbreak that has required culls of hundreds of thousands of ducks in southwest France "seems under control for now," the government's top official in the region said Thursday.
Veterinary medicine
Jan 21, 2021
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To keep animal welfare on the political and societal agenda, there needs to be a change in the way we present the argument, a leading international animal ethicist says.
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2013
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