Differences among the collection of bacteria and other microorganisms that live within birds' digestive tracts -- their gut microbiomes -- are not primarily driven by diet diversity, contrary to a ...
New research explains how eating feces (known as coprophagy) shapes wild birds' digestive tracts (gut biota), enabling them to absorb lost or deficient nutrients and adjust to seasonal variations in ...
A new disease has been described in seabirds, but it might just be the tip of the iceberg. Rather than being caused by viruses or bacteria, "plasticosis" is caused by small pieces of plastic which ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Differences among the collection of bacteria and other microorganisms that live within birds’ digestive tracts — their gut microbiomes — are not primarily driven by diet ...