Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia luscinia)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Collar
Keyword(s):  
Thrush Nightingale

scholarly journals Molecular characterization and distribution of Plasmodium matutinum, a common avian malaria parasite

Parasitology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 144 (13) ◽  
pp. 1726-1735 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEDIMINAS VALKIŪNAS ◽  
MIKAS ILGŪNAS ◽  
DOVILĖ BUKAUSKAITĖ ◽  
VAIDAS PALINAUSKAS ◽  
RASA BERNOTIENĖ ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Markers ◽  
Molecular Characterization ◽  
Malaria Parasite ◽  
Avian Malaria ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Molecular Data ◽  
Infected Blood ◽  
Avian Malaria Parasite ◽  
Thrush Nightingale

SUMMARYSpecies of Plasmodium (Plasmodiidae, Haemosporida) are widespread and cause malaria, which can be severe in avian hosts. Molecular markers are essential to detect and identify parasites, but still absent for many avian malaria and related haemosporidian species. Here, we provide first molecular characterization of Plasmodium matutinum, a common agent of avian malaria. This parasite was isolated from a naturally infected thrush nightingale Luscinia luscinia (Muscicapidae). Fragments of mitochondrial, apicoplast and nuclear genomes were obtained. Domestic canaries Serinus canaria were susceptible after inoculation of infected blood, and the long-lasting light parasitemia developed in two exposed birds. Clinical signs of illness were not reported. Illustrations of blood stages of P. matutinum (pLINN1) are given, and phylogenetic analysis identified the closely related avian Plasmodium species. The phylogeny based on partial cytochrome b (cyt b) sequences suggests that this parasite is most closely related to Plasmodium tejerai (cyt b lineage pSPMAG01), a common malaria parasite of American birds. Both these parasites belong to subgenus Haemamoeba, and their blood stages are similar morphologically, particularly due to marked vacuolization of the cytoplasm in growing erythrocytic meronts. Molecular data show that transmission of P. matutinum (pLINN1) occurs broadly in the Holarctic, and the parasite likely is of cosmopolitan distribution. Passeriform birds and Culex mosquitoes are common hosts. This study provides first molecular markers for detection of P. matutinum.

scholarly journals Exploratory analyses of migration timing and morphometrics of the Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia luscinia)

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-170
Author(s):  
Tibor Csörgő ◽  
Péter Fehérvári ◽  
Zsolt Karcza ◽  
Péter Ócsai ◽  
Andrea Harnos
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Tail Length ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Migration Timing ◽  
Annual Means ◽  
Thrush Nightingale

Abstract Ornithological studies often rely on long-term bird ringing data sets as sources of information. However, basic descriptive statistics of raw data are rarely provided. In order to fill this gap, here we present the seventh item of a series of exploratory analyses of migration timing and body size measurements of the most frequent Passerine species at a ringing station located in Central Hungary (1984–2017). First, we give a concise description of foreign ring recoveries of the Thrush Nightingale in relation to Hungary. We then shift focus to data of 1138 ringed and 547 recaptured individuals with 1557 recaptures (several years recaptures in 76 individuals) derived from the ringing station, where birds have been trapped, handled and ringed with standardized methodology since 1984. Timing is described through annual and daily capture and recapture frequencies and their descriptive statistics. We show annual mean arrival dates within the study period and present the cumulative distributions of first captures with stopover durations. We present the distributions of wing, third primary, tail length and body mass, and the annual means of these variables. Furthermore, we show the distributions of individual fat and muscle scores, and the distributions of body mass within each fat score category. We present data only for the autumn migratory period since there were only 27 spring captures in the study period. We distinguish the age groups (i.e. juveniles and adults) in the analyses. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of the analysed variables. However, we do not aim to interpret the obtained results, merely to draw attention to interesting patterns that may be worth exploring in detail. Data used here are available upon request for further analyses.

scholarly journals Wake structure and wingbeat kinematics of a house-martin Delichon urbica

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (15) ◽  
pp. 659-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Rosén ◽  
G.R Spedding ◽  
A Hedenström
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Numbers ◽  
Laminar Flows ◽  
Frequency Model ◽  
Wake Structure ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
Weight Support ◽  
House Martin ◽  
Lifting Surfaces ◽  
Thrush Nightingale ◽  
Slender Wing

The wingbeat kinematics and wake structure of a trained house martin in free, steady flight in a wind tunnel have been studied over a range of flight speeds, and compared and contrasted with similar measurements for a thrush nightingale and a pair of robins. The house martin has a higher aspect ratio (more slender) wing, and is a more obviously agile and aerobatic flyer, catching insects on the wing. The wingbeat is notable for the presence at higher flight speeds of a characteristic pause in the upstroke. The essential characteristics of the wing motions can be reconstructed with a simple two-frequency model derived from Fourier analysis. At slow speeds, the distribution of wake vorticity is more simple than for the other previously measured birds, and the upstroke does not contribute to weight support. The upstroke becomes gradually more significant as the flight speed increases, and although the vortex wake shows a signature of the pause phase, the global circulation measurements are otherwise in good agreement with surprisingly simple aerodynamic models, and with predictions across the different species, implying quite similar aerodynamic performance of the wing sections. The local Reynolds numbers of the wing sections are sufficiently low that the well-known instabilities of attached laminar flows over lifting surfaces, which are known to occur at two to three times this value, may not develop.

scholarly journals Autumn Migration Of The Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia Luscinia) In Northern Hungary

Ring ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dávid Kováts
Keyword(s):  
Arrival Time ◽  
Wing Length ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Autumn Migration ◽  
Stopover Site ◽  
Migration Strategies ◽  
Median Date ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Fat Score ◽  
Thrush Nightingale

Abstract Kováts D. 2012. Autumn migration of the Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) in northernHungary. Ring 34: 23-36. The autumn migration of the Thrush Nightingale was studied in Szalonna in northern Hungary in 1989-2010. Birds were mist-netted, ringed, aged, measured, weighed and fat scored. In total, 193 Thrush Nightingales were ringed during 22 years. Relations between arrival time and biometrical measurements were determined. Within the study period (6 August - 26 September) the migration curve was bimodal showing maximum on 22 August and 27 August. Immature birds arrived significantly earlier with lower body mass and shorter wing length and had more pointed wings in the first half of their passage. The distribution of fat score classes did not differ significantly between the early and late periods of the most intensive migration, although the mean of the deposited fat was the lowest during the peak of migration. Fat reserve distribution was bimodal in autumn suggesting that Thrush Nightingales probably start their journey from different breeding ranges (populations) or follow still undiscovered migration strategies of sex/age groups. The low proportion of recaptures proved that the area was not used as a stopover site or premigratory fattening area. Within 22 years of study, the median date of autumn migration of Thrush Nightingales shifted 7.9 days earlier, probably due to current climate change.

scholarly journals A New Species of the Genus Proctophyllodes (Analgoidea, Proctophyllodidae) from Ukraine

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. e-15-e-18
Author(s):  
S. Burdejnaja ◽  
D. Kivganov
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Ficedula Hypoleuca ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Pied Flycatcher ◽  
Luscinia Megarhynchos ◽  
Thrush Nightingale ◽  
A New Species

A New Species of the Genus Proctophyllodes (Analgoidea, Proctophyllodidae) from Ukraine The species Proctophyllodes lusciniae Burdejnaja et Kivganov sp. n. from the Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos C. L. Brehm, 1831 and the Thrush Nightingale L. luscinia Linnaeus, 1758 (Passeriformes) (type locality: Zmeinij Island, Ukraine) is described. The new species, belongs to the glandarinus species group and morphologically similar to P. doleophyes Gaud, 1957 from Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca (Pallas, 1764).

scholarly journals Geolocators reveal three consecutive wintering areas in the thrush nightingale

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Stach ◽  
Sven Jakobsson ◽  
Cecilia Kullberg ◽  
Thord Fransson
Keyword(s):  
Wintering Areas ◽  
Thrush Nightingale

scholarly journals Vortex wakes generated by robins Erithacus rubecula during free flight in a wind tunnel

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 263-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Hedenström ◽  
M Rosén ◽  
G.R Spedding
Keyword(s):  
Wind Tunnel ◽  
Momentum Flux ◽  
Erithacus Rubecula ◽  
Free Flight ◽  
Wake Structure ◽  
Bird Flight ◽  
Image Velocimetry ◽  
Horizontal Momentum ◽  
Gradual Variation ◽  
Thrush Nightingale

The wakes of two individual robins were measured in digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) experiments conducted in the Lund wind tunnel. Wake measurements were compared with each other, and with previous studies in the same facility. There was no significant individual variation in any of the measured quantities. Qualitatively, the wake structure and its gradual variation with flight speed were exactly as previously measured for the thrush nightingale. A procedure that accounts for the disparate sources of circulation spread over the complex wake structure nevertheless can account for the vertical momentum flux required to support the weight, and an example calculation is given for estimating drag from the components of horizontal momentum flux (whose net value is zero). The measured circulations of the largest structures in the wake can be predicted quite well by simple models, and expressions are given to predict these and other measurable quantities in future bird flight experiments.

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