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  • The Russian Arctic also provides feeding grounds for some southern species, for instance, the Californian gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) and short-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris) that nest in southern Australia.

    Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

  • Slender-billed curlew Numenius tenuirostris (K) has occurred on passage (28 in 1971 and one or two in 1989).

    Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve, Romania 2009

  • Although locally common, both the Norfolk Island gerygone (Gerygone modesta) and the slender-billed white-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris) are considered threatened, and the slender-billed white-eye population continues to decline outside protected areas.

    Norfolk Island subtropical forests 2008

  • These wetlands are also important for wintering and migrating species like the slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris, CR), which travels between Africa and itsbreeding grounds somewhere in Siberiaeach year.

    Biological diversity in the Mediterranean Basin 2008

  • It is possible that the globally threatened slender-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris, CR) uses some of the ephemeral wetlands in this ecoregion, as this species is also found during the winter months in a few North African coastal wetlands.

    Saharan halophytics 2008

  • Populations of three species of South Asian vulture, the white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis), the long-billed vulture (Gyps indicus) and the slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris), have declined rapidly within the last decade and all are now critically endangered.

    Asian Vultures are on the verge of Extinction 2008

  • Special international research is conducted here on ecology and biology of waterfowl (Steganopodes, Ciconiiformes), as well as on herring gull (Larus argentatus) and thin-billed curlew (Numenius tenuirostris).

    Kazakh steppe 2008

  • In coastal areas and on offshore islands, vast numbers of short-tailed shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris return to breed each year.

    Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia 2008

  • The Yap cicadabird (Coracina tenuirostris nesiotis), which may be elevated to a separate species.

    Yap tropical dry forests 2007

  • _The common sucking lice_ occurring on animals are the large-headed horse louse, _H. macrocephalus_; the long-nosed ox louse, _H. tenuirostris_; the large-bellied ox louse, _H. curysternus_; the _H. stenopses_ of sheep; _H. suis_ of swine; and the _H. piliferus_ of the dog.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

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