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Out of the thousands of bird species worldwide, the finch is just one of them, and its subspecies are found across the globe. In North America alone, there are 17 subspecies of finch, including the ...

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The Species Technical Committee (STC) has assessed the status of 6 fauna species and 13 flora species in accordance with the requirements of the Nature Conservation Act 1992 as well as best practice ...

I've been very excited to tell you about a new paper that has just been published by PLoS Biology. This paper nicely unites the two fields of evolutionary biology that I am most passionate about, the ...

Many types of mites can inhabit birds' feathers, quills, skin, subcutaneous tissue, and respiratory tracts.1,2 Mites of the genus Knemidocoptes, which parasitize only birds, are burrowing mites that ...

The bird examined was a 10-week-old female Gouldian finch (Chloebia gouldiae) from an aviary that had housed about 100 Gouldian finches, which had nasal discharge, dyspnoea, anorexia, depression and a ...