Article: Foraging behavior of Tufted Tit-Tyrants (Anairetes parulus) in semiarid northcentral Chile.(Report)

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KRT Photos;  March 14, 2006 ;     413 words ...Helen Hughes KRT Photos 03-14-2006 TRAVEL WLT-PUMALIN 9 KRT The "cachudita" or tufted tit-tyrant, one of the smallest birds in Chile, hides in the foliage of a native Magellan fuchsia bush, March 15, 2006. (Helen ...

Article: Bad for birds.(STATELINE)(spread of the West Nile virus)(Brief ...
State Legislatures;  May 1, 2006 ;     549 words ... ... West Nile virus in the state in 2002. Species hardest hit appear to be blue jays, American crows, black-billed magpies, tufted tit-mice, and black-capped and Carolina chickadees. The mosquito-transmitted virus was first found in the United States ...

Article: Bird watchers expand knowledge with hour-long hike.
Sun Journal (New Bern, NC);  May 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... more competition for food and space." There are also plenty of resident birds in this area such as the Northern Cardinal, Tufted Tit-Mouse, Carolina Chicadee and Carolina Wren, and Bluejays. Robins, he said, are actually migratory birds. "We see ...

Article: Murder by misletoe
Natural History;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... national park in northern Chile called Fray Jorge. The park's twenty thousand acres ... struck by a peculiar feature of those in Fray Jorge. Many of them were covered by masses ... Chilean ecologist who accompanied me to Fray Jorge, told me that the red blossoms belonged ...

Article: Tree establishment along an ENSO experimental gradient in the ...
Journal of Vegetation Science;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Mejia (17[degrees]00' S, 71[degrees]59' W), Fray Jorge (30[degrees]41' S, 71[degrees]37' W). Methods ... than 27 mm required in Piura, 100 mm in Mejia and 450 mm in Fray Jorge. We found that seedling survival and growth rate (shoots ...

Article: Research on environmental research detailed by scientists at ...
Ecology, Environment & Conservation;  May 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... After verification with ground-truth measures, we used NDVI data from two semiarid localities in north-central Chile (Fray Jorge and Auco) to determine the relationship between rainfall patterns and vegetation cover and productivity related to El Nino ...

Article: The harvest from the fog-bank. (fog supplies water to Chungungo, ...
The Economist (US);  January 7, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... desert nomads have long put buckets under trees to collect water condensed from the air. So did Chile's Quechua people. Its Fray Jorge forest survives in a desert on moisture from a mist that passes through without becoming rain. In the 1960s, Chilean scientists ...