We collected pairs of habitat core samples ( n =510) from 5 habitat types in southern New Jersey, USA, during October, January, and April 2006鈥 2008 to estimate resource availability and variability. We collected upper gastrointestinal tracts from hunter-killed birds ( n =45) and late ...
In New Jersey the black bear lives in the wild without any specific designation. Black bear prefer to live in dense cover, such as forests, cedar swamps, thickets, brush and clear cuts populated with saplings. Their choice of home range is determined by the types and availability of food....
Its preferred habitats include humid and moist forests close to rivers, and several types of woodland. It is uncommon to fairly common throughout most of its range. The Black Hawk-eagle has black plumage with varying patterns on its wings and body, and white speckling in places. It has ...
25 August 2015 Behavioural innovation and cultural transmission of communication signal in black howler monkeys M. Briseño-Jaramillo1, A. Estrada1 & A. Lemasson2,3 Social traditions based on communication signals are widespread in birds, cetaceans and humans, but surprisingly rare in nonhum...
In birds with male-biased sexual size dimorphism, raising male offspring requires more parental investment. Parents in poor condition should be reluctant to invest in the sex that imposes greater demands on resources, due to the risk of reproductive failure in a given episode or impaired ...
in the mornings to investigate and to go get records, retrieve records that the jury has never seen or the victims family never seen,” said Flanks. “Their efforts, this is why I’m able to be free today. I can look up in the sky and see the birds flying in a different way now...
and 1- or 5-min intervals at Røst. Both logger types were attached with 1–2 g®Tesa tape on the lower back of the birds and thus added mass represented between 1.6 and 5.5% of the birds’ body mass (Table1). Birds were caught either by hand or with a crook on the nest, by...
Among birds, Laridae are famous for their propensity to hybridize in nature (see Olsen and Larsson, 2004), especially the group known as 'the large white-headed gulls' (Sonsthagen et al., 2012) or 'the Herring Gull complex' (Sternkopf et al., 2010). These species include some of the...
The bear hunting zones map is available at www.njfishandwildlife.com. Get our free mobile app The hunt will extend through half an hour after sunset Saturday, December 10. In the event that the management goal of 20% tagged bruins is not met, there will be an additional three days of ...
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