(n.) A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, redwing hepatic microsomes had marginal or no ability to N-hydroxylate PCMA, whereas rat hepatic microsomes N-hydroxylated PCMA at a higher rate than PCA.
(2) Redwing hepatic microsomes N-hydroxylated PCA slower than rat microsomes.
(3) Seasonal change in song system structures in male redwings is consistent with there being a relation between adult plasticity in anatomy and in behavior; the large seasonal change in these structures in females suggests large seasonal changes in the function of these nuclei.
(4) One day post-treatment, the LH pituitary content was significantly reduced in GnRH-A-treated redwings compared to saline-injected controls.
(5) • Large flocks of chaffinch with some bramblings in woodland, abundant redwing and fieldfare in hawthorn hedges, and rare waxwings appearing in unusually high numbers.
(6) A good year, too, for winter migrants fieldfares and redwings.
Turdus
Definition:
(n.) A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of 105 juvenile American robins (Turdus migratorius L.) examined for fecal parasites, 77.1% were infected with one or more species of endoparasite.
(2) A partly fed female of I. festai was collected from Turdus merula L. caught in Hel Peninsula (Southern Coast of Baltic Sea).
(3) This included white crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, gold crowned sparrows, Z. atricapilla, and English sparrows, Passer domesticus, (68% in the composite); coots, Fulica americana, (29%); blackbirds, Euphagus cyanocephalus, (33%); crows, Corvus brachyrhyncos, (29%); robins, Turdus migratorius, (16%); pigeons, Columba fasciata, (10%); and mallard ducks, Anas platyrhynchos, (7%).
(4) This yeast was not isolated from droppings of 13 small parrots, 10 eclectus parrots, 13 rosellas, 21 cockatiels, 6 Polytelidus sp., 32 Cacatua sp., 13 Carduelis sp., 5 waxbills, 5 starlings, 120 chicken, 9 turkeys, 2 geese, 2 Turdus sp., 1 duck and 1 gull.
(5) For Italy the following records are new: hosts: Corvus frugilegus for Ixodes frontalis; Coturnix coturnix and Alauda arvensis for Haemaphysalis sulcata; immature stages: Ixodes canisuga on Vulpes vulpes; Ixodes frontalis on Turdus merula; Haemaphysalis punctata on Coturnix coturnix, Phasianus colchicus, Erinaceus europaeus, Lepus europaeus; Accordingly numerous species, hosts and seasonal records are new for Abruzzo.
(6) An index of similarity is presented to express the species importance relationships of the helminth faunas of the 7 species of birds: red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus), blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata), brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), common grackles (Quiscalus quiscula), house sparrows (Passer domesticus), starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), and robins (Turdus migratorius).
(7) The cardinals (Richmondena cardinalis), robins (Turdus migratorius), and baby chicks (Gallus gallus) all became viremic; 97% of the bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) and 20% of the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix) became viremic.
(8) The lead, cadmium and zinc in untreated blackbird (Turdus merula L.) feathers is predominantly of exogenous origin.
(9) Predation seems more important than food availability in determining the reproductive period of the clay-colored robin Turdus grayi.
(10) Subfractions of erythrocyte H1 histones from each species were compared with those of thrush Turdus musicus.
(11) The schizogonic development of Leucocytozoon dubreuili in the kidney proximal tubule cells of the American robin, Turdus migratorius, was studied by electron microscopy.
(12) In particular, the contamination for song-thrushes (Turdus philomelos) are compared between the regions of Extremadura and Valencia, 350 km east of Extremadura at the same latitude.
(13) The number of birds with antibody increased before mosquitoes became active in the spring and possible explanations of this are discussed.The mean temperature in the hottest month in the study area is substantially below that in other areas with enzootic mosquito-borne viruses and experimental studies showed that Whataroa virus was able to replicate more rapidly in mosquitoes at low temperatures than any arboviruses previously studied.The main natural focus of infection appeared to be in a modified habitat and the introduced song thrush (Turdus philomelos) to be the main vertebrate reservoir host.
(14) It parasitized in the bursa Fabricii of Sylvia borin, Erithacus rubecula and Turdus philomelos, and in the cloaca of Turdus merula.
(15) American robins (Turdus migratorius) switch from eating fruits in the fall to insects in the spring.
(16) Biometrical analysis of four morphometric characters of male and female specimens of Capillaria ovopunctata parasitizing in Sturnus vulgaris, Erithacus rubecula, Turdus philomelos and Turdus merula, i.e.
(17) To determine whether blackbirds (Turdus merula), the most abundant and most abundantly tick-infested ecotonal bird of Central Europe, may contribute to the transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete (Borrelia burgdorferi), we compared the infectivity to ticks of naturally as well as experimentally infected blackbirds and rodents.
(18) The first case of tick bite by Ixodes turdus Nakatsuji was reported.