(n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 45 of the 60 birds in the aviary developed pox lesions around the beaks and eyes.
(2) The source of the infection was undetermined, but could have been associated with 3 Patagonian conures within the aviary.
(3) Two-bottle tests of solution acceptance were conducted in an outdoor aviary with eight common ravens (Corvus corax).
(4) These are, for example, certain characteristics of the different species, the varieties of husbandry and environment as single caged birds or flocks in zoos and aviaries and, especially, the lack of typical clinical symptoms in most cases.
(5) There were no significant differences between morning and afternoon in the numbers of birds located at each position of the aviary.
(6) Giardia infection causing high morbidity and mortality in parakeets in 3 commercial aviaries is described.
(7) Chasing the birds around the cage, or seven days of social contact with a female, raises these indices in birds isolated until adulthood relative to those of the aviary reared animals.
(8) Serological titers were positive in 45% of birds sampled from Aviary 1, 25% from Aviary 2, and 11% from Aviary 3.
(9) Herpesvirus was detected by electron microscopy in hepatocytes of psittacine birds that died at a Florida aviary.
(10) In particular, size and shaping of aviaries are described.
(11) Severe giardiasis was diagnosed in parakeets originating from six aviaries.
(12) There will be trapping, rehoming in aviaries and we will probably have to shoot some as well.
(13) The lakeside aviary is just one of the attractions of Zug's old town, a warren of cobbled streets and chocolate-box artisans' quarters overlooked by a historic bell tower.
(14) The British Association for Shooting and Conservation claims grouse moors hold the key to conservation through diversionary feeding (providing carrion for hen harriers) and removing competing chicks to aviaries.
(15) Males discriminating between their own and another song from their own aviary reached criterion in the fewest number of trials, followed by males discriminating between two songs from their own aviary, then by males discriminating between songs they had not heard before.
(16) There is the rippling curtain wall of the Hall of Science , and the geodesic dome of the Winston Churchill pavilion , now repurposed as an aviary for the local zoo.
(17) Seven of 30 canaries in an aviary in New Zealand developed ophthalmic problems.
(18) Patho-anatomic changes in pigs spontaneously infected with M. avium were proved in 10% of the animals that showed a negative reaction to aviary tuberculin.
(19) Several species of psittacine birds within each aviary were serologically positive for BFDV.
(20) The strains of M. avium and M. intracellulare sensibilized all pigs to aviary tuberculin within 80 days from peroral and intranasal infection.
Bird
Definition:
(n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
(n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
(n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
(n.) Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
(v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
(v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(2) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(3) No vaccination reactions were noted, although most birds involved in the trials were carrying Mycoplasma spp.
(4) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(5) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
(6) Differences between parental and nonparental birds in VIP profiles were detected in the ventral portion of the infundibular region.
(7) The enterococcal population of the 'dosed' birds contained a greater proportion of Enterococcus faecium than did that of the control birds while the converse was true for Ent.
(8) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
(9) After 32 days of feeding, body weight, liver weight and egg production decreased in birds fed lead while kidney weights increased.
(10) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(11) Changes in brain size are compared with observations found in other domesticated birds.
(12) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(13) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(14) Water restriction of HYD birds for 5 days as adults stimulated tubule hypertrophy but not to the same extent as the chronic regimen and with no evidence for hyperplasia.
(15) Thus, the possibility exists that androgen secretion in some chelonian systems may exhibit a high degree of LH specificity like that of mammals and birds.
(16) 1 After the injection of labelled procaine and lidocaine in mice, the location and concentration of radioactivity was demonstrated by autoradiographical methods.2 An accumulation in some endocrine cells such as the pancreatic islets, the hypophysis, the adrenal medulla and certain cells of the thyroid (probably representing the calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells) was shown.3 After the injection of [(14)C]-procaine in chicks, an accumulation of radioactivity was observed in the ultimobranchial gland (which produces calcitonin in birds), but not in the thyroid.4 Radioactivity was also shown to be strongly concentrated in structures containing melanin, such as the pigment of the eye, skin and hair and in some organs involved in the metabolism and excretion of these drugs.
(17) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(18) A man in New Zealand suggested that they need to rid the country of cats to protect their native birds.
(19) Birds showed evidence of increased tolerance, with age, to phenylpropanolamine but not to monensin.
(20) Again, changes in birds fed CTN + OA for 7 days were similar but milder.