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Birds were sampled in landscapes that ranged from intact to relictual as defined from an anthropocentric perspective.

Birds were sampled in patches of fragmented Cape Flats Sand Fynbos at 39 locations during the middle of summer (November January 2008/2009).

Mosquitoes and birds were sampled for West Nile virus (WNV) in suburban Chicago, USA, in a "hot spot" of arboviral transmission.

Birds were sampled with mist-nets with a constant effort of 680 net-h at each of 23 sites, which resulted in almost 2600 captures.

Nine species of native birds were sampled in 238 plots in native forests, exotic plantation forests and mixed farmland on Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand, where these land cover types are highly interspersed in a variety of spatial configurations.

Freshly killed birds were sampled in seven private hunting marshes (85% of our sampling).

Bird- and flock-level prevalences were estimated accounting for sampling fractions and clustering under the multi-stage sampling design with birds being sampled within flocks within villages in four different provinces.

Blood samples were collected only once from Pb-non-exposed control Cinereous Vultures, while the blood of lead-affected birds was sampled for haematology, biochemistry and toxicology analyses shortly after exposure (at the time of diagnosis), 1 (pre-treatment birds), 2 (post-treatment birds), and 8 months after lead exposure.

Although these methods of convenience sampling are often assumed to be representative of a population, sampling biases (most notably selection bias) do occur, making it difficult to develop statistically valid estimates of disease absence or prevalence, regardless of how many birds are sampled.

The location of the test bird was sampled automatically from, a video image with behavioral software Ethovision version 2.1.6 (Noldus Information Technology), where two parallel arenas were monitored simultaneously.

Upland breeding bird communities were sampled from 225 points in 15 survey routes in the coastal region of western Lake Superior to examine relationships to human land use.