Avian

Avian medicine - diagnosis and treatment of illnesses.

Dinosaurs can be divided into avian dinosaurs and non-avian dinosaurs.

Avian flu is not particularly prevalent in well-developed countries like the U.K.

An accomplished aviarist can recognise any avian squawk.

Sometimes in the course of our adventure we came upon worlds inhabited by intelligent beings, whose developed personality was an expression not of the single individual organism but of a group of organisms. In most cases this state of affairs had arisen through the necessity of combining intelligence with lightness of the individual body. A large planet, rather close to its sun, or swayed by a very large satellite, would be swept by great ocean tides. Vast areas of its surface would be periodically submerged and exposed. In such a world flight was very desirable, but owing to the strength of gravitation only a small creature, a relatively small mass of molecules, could fly. A brain large enough for complex "human" activity could not have been lifted. In such worlds the organic basis of intelligence was often a swarm of avian creatures no bigger than sparrows. A host of individual bodies were possessed together by a single individual mind of human rank. The body of this mind was multiple, but the mind itself was almost as firmly knit as the mind of a man. As flocks of dunlin or redshank stream and wheel and soar and quiver over our estuaries, so above the great tide-flooded cultivated regions of these worlds the animated clouds of avians maneuvered, each cloud a single center of consciousness.

Has the avian flu been eradicated?

Algeria is known for its avian diversity.

Three groups in parallel developed tests as a key parameter for avian influenza and came up with three different solutions.

I used to be a furry, but I'm proud to say I'm now an avian.

The disease, formally known as avian influenza, is untreatable and has already killed more than 20,000 Cape cormorant birds since last year.