Loxia


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ZEISS has opened up the use of photography camera lenses that are even smaller in size, for cine applications with the patented de-click function of the ZEISS Milvus SLR lenses and the ZEISS Loxia E-mount CSC lenses.
Adaptation to single resources and the evolution of crossbill (Loxia) diversity.
Here, we explore the consequences of seasonal fluctuations on the evolution of morphological traits related to foraging in the red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra).
aurocapilla, Icteria virens, Loxia curvirostra) y 49 son compartidas por ambas secciones El coeficiente de Jaccard indico una similitud del 38% entre los dos poligonos del parque.
Fruit and seeds are the main food of mammals like squirrels (Sciurus), chipmunks or burunduks (Tamias), woodmice (Apodemus), and birds, such as the nutcracker (Nucifraga) and crossbills (Loxia).
We used a boreal finch, the Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), in experiments to test the effect of spines on foraging rates, because crossbills forage on seeds in both closed and open cones (Benkman 1987a, b, Benkman and Lindholm 1991).
Adaptation to single resourses and the evolution of crossbill (Loxia) diversity.
107:555-557) reported a drastic change in coloration in Red Crossbills (Loxia curvirostra) in a feeding experiment with huge quantities of carotenoids.
Crossbills (genus Loxia) are north-temperate zone finches that specialize on an unpredictable food source, conifer seeds (see McCabe and McCabe 1933, Lack 1944, Southern 1945, Newton 1973, Benkman 1987b).
Benkman's (1989) study of the Newfoundland Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra percna) provides an example of one possible scenario for such effects.
Red crossbills (Loxia curvirostra), Botteri's sparrows (Aimophila botterii) and black-headed siskins (Carduelis notara) were each encountered only once, all in dense vegetation not used by grasshopper sparrows.
Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith is also lined-up for the film as Morbius's Loxias Crown.
Orestes himself mentions a specific divine mandate for his revenge, the oracle of Loxias (Apollo):
3.27-30) Nor did she elude the watcher, but even in sheep-receiving Pytho, the lord of the temple, Loxias, happened to perceive it, persuading himself by means of his truest companion: his all-knowing mind.