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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Bird feeder"”.
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Effects of Bird Feeder Density on the Behavior and Ecology of a Feeder-Dependent Songbird: Patterns and Implications for Disease Transmission
… hypothesized to alter pathogen spread. Although bird feeding is the most widespread form of intentional wildlife provisioning, we know relatively little about how the degree of anthropogenic feeding at a site impacts wild birds in ways relevant to disease transmission. We manipulated the density …
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Bird Abundance at Bird Feeders in Response to Temperature, Wind Speed and Precipitation During the Winter Season
… of this project is to explore how 23 different bird species respond to 3 climatic attributes. These attributes are lower than average temperatures, wind speed and precipitation level. Information about the bird species and all of the data associated with them is provided by Project FeederWatch …
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Label-Efficient and Compute-Efficient Video Analytics
… instances of various behaviors between pairs of birds in video of a bird feeder. However, implementing machine learning (ML) pipelines for video analytics tasks remains challenging for two reasons. First, these tasks generally require applying expensive ML models to robustly detect and track …
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Effects of feeder surface cleaning on <i>Mycoplasma gallisepticum</i> transmission in House Finches
People around the world love to feed birds and can benefit from doing so. However, feeders can also contribute to disease spread between songbirds. There are several proposed methods to limit this spread. Cleaning bird feeders is one commonly recommended practice. It is important to test whether …
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Effects of ambient temperature on mechanisms of pathogen transmission in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)
… of transmission in a naturally occurring songbird-pathogen system. House finches (Haemorhous mexicanus) are small songbirds that rely on bird feeders to meet thermoregulatory demands during winter. However, interactions with other birds at the feeder and contact with contaminated feeder …