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The VolunTEEN Program is for high school students ages 15 to 18, who are looking for a rewarding way to spend a portion of their summer. VolunTEENs will spend their days bringing smiles and laughter to the halls of the hospital, while also gaining knowledge of the healthcare world. From the front desks to patient units, VolunTEENs will support Children's staff, play games, and most importantly, leave a lasting impression on our patients and families.
The program spans eight weeks during June and July. Interested teens must be able to commit to volunteering at least one day a week for three hours, missing no more than two days of the summer commitment. There will be additional opportunities, such as informative sessions with healthcare professionals.
You must be 15 by May 30th to be eligible for the program.
Important Dates
Thank you for your interest in our VolunTEEN 2023 Program! The application for this year's program closed on February 6th. Please check back later in the year for the 2024 program dates.
- Mandatory Training dates:
- Egleston: May 31st from 2pm-4pm
- Hughes Spalding: May 31st from 2pm-4pm
- Scottish Rite: May 30th from 2pm-4pm
- Program dates: June 5th - July 28th
How do I apply to volunteer at Children's?
Read all steps below before completing the assessment. Applications will not be accepted until the online steps are completed and all forms are received.
- Meet the following volunteer requirements:
- Be at least 15 years old and by May 30th, 2023
- Pass a criminal background check (if 18 years or older)
- Provide proof of immunity to measles, mumps and rubella (MMR); chickenpox; and tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap).
- Provide proof of COVID-19 Vaccination. . (boosters not required)
- Provide proof of flu vaccination from this flu season (dated August 2022 or later)
- Willingness to receive a Quantiferon Gold or T-SPOT Tuberculosis blood test if accepted into the program.
- Attend the mandatory training. (make-up trainings NOT provided)
- Adhere to Children's policies and procedures.
Please note: mailed in packets will not be accepted
- Immunization records that include measles, mumps and rubella (two immunization dates); varicella/chickenpox (either two immunization dates or titer results proving immunity); Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis); flu shot and COVID-19 vaccination
- Background check disclosure form
- Color copy of your photo ID (driver's license, school ID, passport, etc.)
- Completed recommendation form (attached form to be completed by non-family members)
Where to drop off your documents:
Children's at Egleston
Attn: Volunteer Services
1405 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30322
Children's at Hughes Spalding
Attn: Volunteer Services
35 Jesse Hill Jr. Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Children's at Scottish Rite
Attn: Volunteer Services
1001 Johnson Ferry Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30342
Thank you for your interest in volunteering at Children's. Your completed application will go directly into our volunteer database. Should you be selected for an open position, a volunteer coordinator will contact you for a personal interview.
Who to contact for more information about our VolunTEEN Program:
- Hughes Spalding: Charice Holt
- Egleston: Lindy Carder
- Scottish Rite: Amanda Miller
The Explorer Program is an educational program for currently enrolled high school students interested in the exciting world of healthcare careers. This is an educational program—there is no patient interaction. For high school students interested in direct volunteer work, see the VolunTEEN program.
Potential opportunities include:
- Talking with doctors, physician assistants, physical therapists and medical specialists about their experiences in healthcare.
- Exploring career opportunities in child life, the Children's Foundation, rehabilitation and many other unique fields to find what interests you.
- Learning about what topics you are interested in and the journey it takes to pursue the career you want.
- Meeting other students interested in medical fields.
What dates is the Explorer Program held?
2023-2024 Program Dates:
- September 12, 2023
- October 10, 2023
- November 14, 2023
- January 16, 2024
- February 13, 2024
- March 12, 2024
Registration for the 2023-2024 program is now open. Please note that registering for this program will grant the participant access to all six sessions.
*Registration will close once we reach 200 participants*
Where is the Explorer Program held?
All sessions will be held virtually through the WebEx platform.
Who can I contact for more information?
For more information about the Explorer Program, please contact Lindy Carder.
Children's welcomes and appreciates support from our scouting community. Whether it's donating to one of our three hospitals or participating in one of our existing programs, Scouts have the opportunity to learn more about Children's and make a difference in the lives of others. See below for ways your troop can get involved.
- For individual service projects (e.g., Gold/Silver/Bronze Awards and Eagle Scout Projects): Reach out to GraceAnne Dukes for information about project coordination and approval.
- For troop projects and opportunities: Reach out to GraceAnne Dukes for information about project coordination and approval.
- For individual opportunities: You may participate in one of our existing programs, such as Young Friends.
We know that our patients and their families can bring unique insights to the care we provide. Children's is tapping into this resource with its Youth Advisory Council (YAC), a collaborative venture with patients, their siblings and children of Children's employees that gives them a formal opportunity to help us enhance our caregiving efforts.
Thank you for your interest in the Youth Advisory Council (YAC). We are not accepting applications for our Youth Advisory Council at this time. Please check back for future opportunities.


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Wed, 24 September 2014
When the normal gang is unable to make it to the podcast, Joe and Dan take it back to their roots to talk about what they've been playing since last week. Dan's continued stay in the world of Destiny leads him to play some more Borderlands 2, but he also spends some time methodically playing The Wolf Among Us. Joe gives up on Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance to dive into Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, and he gives you his weekly Animal Crossing: New Leaf update.
They also discuss what they're looking for in the new Super Smash Bros. and why the Wii U has become a must own system.
Enjoy this walk back in time with The Free Cheese's original duo.
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Wed, 17 September 2014
This week on FourPlay, we dive right in and talk about the problems that lie within Bungie's Destiny, but why Dan and Dave are still keen on playing the game. We share our thoughts and experiences with the Super Smash Bros. demo for 3DS, and we give our answers to the question of the week surrounding HD remakes for Nintendo games.
We also fire off some lightning round questions and present a new business idea for a grilled cheese buffet and arcade combo. If you like video games and nonsense, you should give this episode your attention.
Direct download: FourPlay_Episode_38.mp3
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Wed, 10 September 2014
During another thrilling episode of FourPlay, you can hear us discuss Velocity 2X, Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, The Walking Dead, and The Last of Us. We also take a moment to reflect on the 15th anniversary of the Sega Dreamcast, leading us to discuss gaming's odd console endeavors and underdogs.
Join Joe Dix, Marc Augustyniak, Tyler Block, and Kyle Muehlberger as they yell over dogs, discover the English language, and communicate through the sounds of the Mudokon.
Direct download: FourPlay_Episode_37.mp3
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Wed, 3 September 2014
This week on the show, Joe and Marc reconvene to discuss the difference between childhood and adulthood gaming, taking into consideration the advent of the internet to spoil everything before its release, as well as the availability of information and of games.
Marc shares his experience with a game called Contagion, the successor to Zombie Panic Source. He also reminds Joe that Halloween in Animal Crossing is on its way, but not before sharing his experience with P.T.
Joe immediately fell back into Mario Kart 8 after the new DLC announcements, and holding the Wii U GamePad led him to explore the challenge modes in Pikmin 3.
Both Marc and Joe close the book on what was Metroid II: Return of Samus, and they share their thoughts on the future of Nintendo and the new 3DS.
We also ask the question of the week: What would you name the next Nintendo home console?
Direct download: FourPlay_Episode_36.mp3
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Alan Pardew was unable to lead his Newcastle United side to a repeat of their heroics of last season at Old Trafford when they took the three points with a 0-1 win over Manchester United, then under David Moyes.
Last December David Moyes was the manager of Manchester United. Last December Yohan Cabaye was the goalscoring leader of Newcastle United. Last December Newcastle won 1-0 at Old Trafford.
Yesterday, last December felt a different era.
A year is a long time in football, of course, but normal service has been restored. These two northern Uniteds have resumed the roles allotted them.
Then Newcastle were upstart victors, winning a league game at Old Trafford for the first time in 41 years. Then the hosts were victims who had lost at home to Everton three days earlier – for the first time in 21 years. Moyes was making the wrong kind of history.
But as of the 36th minute yesterday, when Wayne Rooney guided in the second, Newcastle's record was being rewritten to one league win at Old Trafford in 42 years. Manchester United were not great, but there was no way Newcastle were coming back from 2-0 down.
Such predictability is an achievement of sorts. United have now won seven of their last eight matches and, while it would be an exaggeration to say they are electrifying supporters with that run, there is something coming together under Louis van Gaal.
Each club is a consequence of its ownership and strategy. Old Trafford has reacted to the blip – they hope – of last season with ambitious and expensive recruitment. Ultimately, it may not work. But Old Trafford has made a statement of intent.
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew spoke of missing nine senior players. But none is missed like Cabaye. Newcastle's season collapsed after his sale to Paris Saint-Germain in January and there was no Loïc Rémy or Mathieu Debuchy either yesterday. Both played last December. This also amounts to a statement.
With Papiss Cissé left on the bench, there was a full Premier League debut for Adam Armstrong, one of five locals in the Newcastle starting XI.
Newcastle have now lost four consecutive matches, four in 13 days. While there was no mass dissent from the travelling thousands, this run has taken Pardew back to the land of volatility he frequently inhabits on Tyneside. Reflecting on 2014 as a whole, Pardew did not camouflage some serious issues.
"It's been a difficult year," he said. "We were well short in the last window and we didn't replace Cabaye." It was the only time Yohan Cabaye was mentioned yesterday, but, like David Moyes for other reasons, he has not been forgotten.


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Taking whole fruit or fruit juice nourishes your body and satisfies you with great taste. Fruit juice provides vitamins and minerals but there are some downsides to drinking too much of it when compared to whole fruit.
Whole fruit is fuel packed with essential nutrients and minerals that we need for the day and so are fruit juices; after all, juices are a fruit byproduct, right? But there are some differences which you are about to find out now.
Nutritious, delicious, pulpy & vibrantly coloured, whole fruits are all you'll see when it comes to healthy eating on most websites. But have you ever thought, why are fruit juices not mentioned in these lists in particular?
Well, it's easy reasoning; whole fruits contain a full variety of nutrients. Whereas fruit juices can not provide you with the same nutrients, depending on the juicing process.
Through this article, I will guide you towards a healthier lifestyle by answering the question of whole fruit or fruit juice.
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Whole Fruit or Fruit Juice?Advantages of whole fruit over fruit juice
- The Benefit of the fruit peel or skin
Fruit peels are important in supplying the body with nutrients as they communicate with different light wavelengths and digest them by producing coloured pigments such as flavonoids and carotenoids that are said to improve health and nutrition.
The skin of grapes and blueberries contains a high proportion of antioxidants and also protects the body from ultraviolet light and helps to reduce the risk of cancer. The skin is not consumed when it comes to fruit juice because different juicing methods require removal of the peel which means fewer nutrients run through the body.
- The Benefits Of The Fruit's Pulp
The fruit pulp is high in minerals and fibre. The white pulpy portion, for example, includes flavonoids, whereas the juicy orange parts are home to vitamin C. When an orange is consumed, the flavonoids and vitamin C function together to provide the body with food.
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Unfortunately, the white component is lost as orange juice is juiced which implies you are lacking flavonoids. Although many companies claim to have added this particular portion of orange to the juice, it is highly unlikely that they would actually add it.
- The Health Benefits of the fibre content
Have an idea how much fibre you sacrifice as you start to collect fruit juice from whole fruits?
Considering Apple as an example, the skin of an apple contains nearly half of its total dietary fibre. But the skin is separated during juice extraction, and the pulp gets lost.
You'll make juice from 4 apples, for example. They compose of about 12-15g dietary fibre. During the extraction process, almost all of that fibre will be destroyed. Whereas adding this fibre back into the juice would double your daily intake of fibre.
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Whole Fruit or Fruit Choice: Which Is The Healthier Choice?
The determination as to the fruit juice's quality relies on the juice content and how it is processed. If the juice is stripped of nutrition and vitamins, it is actually eating sugar that is not capable of helping to absorb nutrients in the body.
However, fruit juices raise blood sugar levels at a faster pace than whole fruit because they are high in sugar. Therefore, it is important to read the nutrient label before consumption of these items.
Whole fruits are natural, have the highest and best health benefits and hardly pose any danger.
My Verdict
Fruit juice elevates blood sugar quicker than whole fruit, and the sugar content that can be derived from fruit juice is greater than that present in the whole fruit. For example, whole apples in 120 calories contain about 24 grams of sugar, whereas apple juice in 120 calories contains about 30 grams.
Remember that the sugar in whole fruit is natural and easily metabolised while that of fruit juice is opposite.
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Fruit juice is definitely a good alternative when deciding either soda or water. Nonetheless, whole fruit would always be the best choice and the change from it to fruit juice can only be done at the cost of your full fitness and healthier life.


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For those who enjoy a dry gin with a citrus tinge, this iteration from LA-based AMASS promises notes of various fruit peels, lemongrass, pepper and more. Crafted using 29 botanicals (11 of which are grown in California), with no artificial additives, it's complex but easy-drinking, and works in most cocktails—especially a classic martini.
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Report: Dave Joerger and Grizzlies players want to keep Lance Stephenson
The last trade to go through before Thursday's deadline was one of the most fascinating. The Grizzlies shipped Jeff Green to the Clippers in return for a future first-round pick and Lance Stephenson, adding to a cast of characters that already included Zach Randolph, Tony Allen, Matt Barnes and the newly acquired P.J. Hairston and Chris Andersen. The trade was a clear win for Memphis, getting a pick for Green's expiring contract, but the question remained of what to do with Stephenson.
Next year's $9.4 million on Stephenson's contract is a team option, and given his up-and-down play, it's unlikely the Grizzlies keep him around barring a major turnaround in the stretch run of this season. And if the deadline had shaken out a different way, he might have been cut loose before then — the Clippers discussed a Stephenson-Channing Frye swap with the Magic in which Orlando would have waived Stephenson.
If Grizzlies brass decides to do that, head coach Dave Joerger and the rest of the team won't be happy.
Via The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski:
Sources: Dave Joerger, Grizzlies players made it clear to management: They don't want Lance Stephenson waived. They'll try to win with him.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 19, 2016
At this point, the Grizzlies might as well keep Stephenson around at least through the end of the season and see how it goes. With Marc Gasol done for the year, they're going to need all the help they can get if they want to stay in playoff contention. If it doesn't work, they can cut bait in June. If it does, they can keep him next season at a reasonable price.


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Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) improves the health of British Columbians by seeking province-wide solutions to specialized health care needs in collaboration with BC health authorities and other partners.
Direct care staff are often asked to apply research in their practice, but many do not have the capacity, time or resources to engage in research themselves. However, they can use their unique understanding and experience of their programs, clients and patients to make research meaningful and relevant for improving clinical practice. Enabling direct care staff to conduct research for which they are the users of their own research allows them to fully participate in the cycle of moving research into practice.
The Research Challenge has been implemented in other health authorities in B.C. and has been evaluated to have positive clinical and professional impacts brought meaningful change to staff (e.g., procedures), patients and their families (e.g., quality of life) (Black et al., 2019). Participants became more interested in future research initiatives, dissemination activities (publishing research), interdisciplinary collaboration and promotion of evidence-based practice.
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The effect of salt addition on the supercooling properties of erythritol was investigated in an attempt to create a novel sugar alcohol type of latent heat storage material that has high thermal storage density and remains in a supercooled state at room temperature. The mechanism of the effect was also examined. Various cationic and anionic species having different valences were each added to erythritol, and their effects on supercooling properties were evaluated with crystallization temperature and supercooling retention time as indices. The supercooling retention mechanism was also investigated focused on the interaction between erythritol and each additive by NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy. It was found that erythritol additives containing monovalent anions are effective as supercooling stabilizers, and additives containing divalent anions are effective as supercooling inhibitors. It was also found that cationic species have a smaller influence than anionic species. Additives that include the acetate ion were found to be a capable of maintaining erythritol in a supercooled state at room temperature, and the improvement of supercooling retention was considered to be due to the interaction between the hydroxy group of erythritol and the acetate ion.
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This is the story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who risked her life to hide Jews. With gripping first-person narration, this fast-paced historical novel captivated me as a reader. The story shows that, even in terrible times, there are good people. Knowing it meant certain death if they were caught, there were still people willing to hide Jews – like the folks who hid my mother and my uncle, who are also Polish Holocaust survivors. It's a part of history we should never forget.
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The recent collaboration will help the Cardano Foundation to take further its goal of driving the adoption of blockchain technology to a vibrant open-source community.
On Wednesday, June 22, the Cardano Foundation announced that it has joined The Linux Foundation as the first non-profit Gold member. The announcement came during an open source summit in Austria.
We are excited to welcome the Cardano Foundation as a Linux Foundation Gold Member. Welcome to our global #opensource community @Cardano! https://t.co/0lMKPvg9Gc #Cardano #Blockchain #OSSummit pic.twitter.com/K3uQ61o22X
— The Linux Foundation (@linuxfoundation) June 22, 2022
This is a great opportunity for the Cardano Foundation to further strengthen its commitment to the open-source community. With this partnership, the Cardano Foundation will also continue "contributing to the positive advancement of blockchain as a world-changing technology."
While commenting at the event, Cardano Foundation Chief Open Source Officer Dirk Hohndel said:
"Open source is about communities. It's about bringing together people from different companies, countries, and backgrounds. The Cardano Foundation is focused on driving the adoption of blockchain technology and we strongly believe that building a vibrant open source community around our technology is a key part to achieving that goal. The Linux Foundation, with its outstanding track record as facilitator of collaboration around interesting open source technology, is a perfect place for us to be."
The Linux Foundation's Executive Director, Jim Zemlin also acknowledged their partnership with the Cardano Foundation. Zemlin further added that Cardano presents a natural path for the adoption of blockchain technologies.
The Linux Foundation Executive Director also added: "With Dirk leading Cardano's open-source ecosystem and the strong community already supporting this work, we're excited to bring to bear our resources to build together into the future."
Key Cardano Events to Watch For
Cardano Foundation founder Charles Hoskinson has been recently very active in taking the community ahead. Ahead today, June 23, Hoskinson shall appear before the US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
The Cardano founder will provide testimony responding to queries from members of the committee regarding the hearing, "The Future of Digital Asset Regulation".
At the same time, IOG Chief scientist Aggelos Kiayias will be speaking at the IEEE conference. Kiayias will speak on the subject of Dependable & Secure Computing.
Cardano and its parent firm Input-Output Group (IOG) have also been working on Web 3 innovation simultaneously. IOG is currently working on its full node implementation of the Daedalus wallet. Furthermore, it's working on Lace, a one-stop solution for all blockchain operations to make the wallet user experience simpler.


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Day light Disc over a car dealership Haveford Pennsylvania 12-7-2015
Source Bryant Reaper Ervin (Facebook)..
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Corpses of red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus were collected monthly from 10, 1-km2 study areas on managed grouse moorland for a period of 10 years. Six of the study areas were located in Scotland and four in Northern England. A greater number of corpses were found on the Scottish study areas than on the English and compositional analysis identified the relative importance of death through parasitism in England. Stoat Mustela erminea kills were more prevalent in England but fox Vulpes vulpes and large raptors were more important in Scotland. Predators were more abundant in Scotland and frequency of sightings positively correlated with number of kills between study areas. There was a seasonal peak in mortality in spring.
Demographic studies of animal populations aim to estimate rates and patterns of fecundity, mortality and dispersal. Estimating fecundity is usually straight forward but estimating mortality and dispersal (emigration and immigration) is fraught with difficulties. One approach to investigating mortality is to examine the disappearance of marked individuals, however, disappearance may mean emigration or an unrecovered death. In vertebrate studies, accuracy in determining mortality has improved within the past 20 years with the development of radio tags that permit the worker to follow individuals with little disturbance until the time of death. Such studies provide an estimate of mortality rate but only identify the proximate cause of mortality (Kenward 1987, White & Garrott 1990). However, even radio tracking does not provide all the answers; a proportion of radio-tagged individuals are lost due to transmitter failure and emigration and obtaining a large sample size is a time-consuming and costly exercise. Undertaking such studies within a single population is difficult enough but to undertake seasonal, comparative studies on replicated geographic sites over a reasonable period of time becomes prohibitively expensive in effort and cost.
In our detailed and extensive studies of the population dynamics of red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus we have taken three approaches to estimating mortality and its causes: first, the standardised search for and collection of corpses from study areas in different parts of the species' range, second the use of radio-tagged individuals and third, the experimental manipulation of individuals and mortality factors coupled with predictions of changes in survival (Hudson, Newborn & Dobson 1992b, Hudson 1992). This paper examines the seasonal and geographical variation in the collection of red grouse corpses from 10 study areas in Scotland and England over a period of 10 years.
Materials and methods
Collection of corpses
Ten study areas of 1 km2 were established on areas of heather moorland, managed for the production of red grouse (Hudson & Newborn 1995); four in North Yorkshire, England and six in Inverness-shire, Scotland. Study sites were selected as representing variations in altitude, moorland habitat and grouse density (Table 1). Most of the study areas were considered to hold separate grouse populations usually because of breaks in habitat between populations, although the two study areas Drumochter 1 and Drumochter 2 were within 2 km of each other and formed part of a contiguous area of grouse moorland. Each area was searched during the third week of each month between July and April for 10 years starting in January 1986 and finishing in December 1995. Searches were not conducted during the months of May, June and July because this would have caused undue disturbance to breeding birds. Searches were postponed if harsh weather conditions made corpse searches worthless.
Initially, each study area was searched on six passes but after three years this was increased to 12 or more passes when visibility was poor due to thick cover or poor weather conditions so the observer felt satisfied the site had been well covered. Each site was covered by a minimum of 6 km at least 170 metres apart and usually took about four man-hours. The searches were undertaken by each of five main field workers although others assisted at times. The direction of search alternated each month (right angles to the previous month), thus ensuring an intensive coverage of each study area. Each pass of the study area was undertaken by walking slowly and scanning the vegetation with binoculars for signs of feathers or corpses. When a sign was noticed, the transect path was left and the worker walked to the sign to search the area for a corpse. If a death was confirmed, standardised notes were taken, the corpse collected and the field worker returned to the transect.
Table 1.
Characteristics of 10 study areas with details of grouse demography and environmental variables. For further details on how these characteristics and variables are described see Hudson (1992). Bag records are means from 1980 to 1989.
Detailed demographic data were also collected from each study area by counting the number of breeding pairs in spring and by assessing breeding production in July (further details in Hudson et al. 1992b, Hudson 1992). Most shooting occurred during the months of August and September and a postshooting count was undertaken in October. Table 1 summarises these data.
Identification of corpses
A mortality was recorded if there were red grouse bones, body tissues, guts or primary feathers present. Clumps of feathers without bones or only secondary feathers were ignored because fighting grouse can leave such signs. However, the loss of a significant number of primaries would have made the bird unable to fly and probably resulted in death. All the remains were removed but when there was a preponderance of feathers, a sign (three secondary feathers stuck in the ground) was left so that other workers did not record the mortality on a subsequent visit. Each field worker recorded all details on a standardised record card including a sketch of feathers and other signs. The surrounding vegetation was searched for signs of mammal predators (faeces, urine odour, corpse caching) or raptor predators (mutes, pellets). The relative location of the corpse in the study area was noted, whether the corpse was close to an object it may have collided with or a mound or post on which a predator may have eaten the bird. Each corpse was classified into one of four broad categories: 1) killed by a raptor, 2) killed by a mammalian predator, 3) a thin bird with characteristics of death through parasites or 4) birds that had probably died from a violent cause not associated with a predator, e.g. collision with fence or shot. The last category included any birds where the cause of death was not obvious. Grouse killed by parasites were usually highly emaciated, often with a full crop, no external signs of injury with a lack of leg feathering. In the past we have shown that such deaths were associated with the nematode Trichostrongylus tenuis and experimental treatment of infected birds increased survival chances (Hudson 1986, 1992, Hudson, Dobson & Newborn 1992a, Hudson & Newborn 1995). Individuals weakened by parasites and then killed by predators would have been classified as killed by a predator; this is examined in more detail by Hudson et al. (1992a). The accuracy of each classification was determined on a subjective ranked scale of 1 to 5 (Table 2). Corpses classified as ranks 1 and 2 were only based on weak evidence, whereas ranks 3–5 included individuals where there was good evidence supporting the cause of death. Young birds were birds less than nine months of age.
The suspected predator species for each corpse was also recorded if possible according to the evidence available and again the accuracy was subjectively ranked on a scale of 1 to 5 (see Table 2). The cause of mortality of each corpse was assessed independently by a second worker after the corpse was brought back to the laboratory for forensic analyses and any corpse discovered by an inexperienced field worker was examined in situ by an experienced field worker. Any differences in the classification of corpses were discussed and an independent assessment by other experienced field workers was sought. When we observed a grouse killed or being eaten by a predator, careful notes and observations were taken and used as a reference for the classification of other grouse corpses collected. Similar techniques have been used and the ability to recover the corpses tested by previous workers (Jenkins, Watson & Miller 1964, Redpath 1989).
Table 2.
Subjective ranked scale used to identify predator type and predator species when examing corpses of red grouse.
Raptor kills were characterised by distinguishing features, in particular the presence of a notched sternum, tom chest muscles, a puff of feathers where the raptor had struck the prey, signs of feathers being plucked, mutes and pellets close to the kill. Peregrine Falco peregrinus kills or kills by other large raptors frequently had a broken neck with the head separated from the body by some distance. Peregrine kills also exhibited a characteristic feather pattern reflecting where the bird was struck and later plucked with a strong dismemberment of the corpse, often with the humerus broken. Smaller raptor kills were more carefully eaten, the humerus was not broken and the chest muscles eaten carefully with distinct beak marks. Distinguishing between large raptor kills, such as peregrine, and small raptor, such as hen harrier Circus cyaneus, kills was the most difficult task and whereas clear evidence was required for classification, in many instances this was not possible and the kill was not classified further than a raptor kill.
Mammal kills showed characteristics of feathers having been bitten rather than plucked and bones crushed rather than snapped so distinguishing between raptor and mammal kills was relatively simple. Red fox Vulpes vulpes kills were quite different from raptor kills, the carcass having been chopped and eaten and often the guts and small parts of the carcass remaining. Foxes frequently crushed the humerus but peregrines would also break this bone. Foxes frequently left the strong smelling caeca behind and occasionally defecated or urinated close by. Stoats Mustela erminea tended to partially bury the carcass and eat part of the kill, characteristically starting behind the head and neck and then eating part of the chest muscles while not eating any of the remaining part of the body, leaving a very cleanly, partly eaten corpse. In Scotland evidence of wild cat Felis silvestris and pine marten Martes martes kills were recorded but so few were found that these were analysed simply as mammal kills.
Care was taken when identifying kills to ensure the bird had not died from one cause and subsequently been scavenged. The location of the corpse relative to tracks or fences was noted and the signs of more than one predator considered. In such situations it was generally clear which predator had killed the grouse, although if in doubt we considered that the mammal, usually fox, was more likely to scavenge the corpse than a raptor.
The time of death was estimated for each corpse as having occurred either within the past week, within the past month or more than a month ago. Corpses that appeared to have been killed several months previously were assigned to one of the four previous seasons: winter (December–February), spring (March–May), summer (June–August) or autumn (September–November). Corpses assigned to these seasons were later distributed equally among the three months of that season.
Predator presence
Assessing the abundance of predators and the relative predator pressure requires long periods observing an area of moorland and recording the presence and movement of predators. This is time consuming and difficult to record during both day and night. We recorded the amount of time spent undertaking routine field work on each study area and recorded the presence of raptor predators on each visit. If a raptor was seen twice during a bout of field work, it was not always possible to determine if this was the same individual recorded twice or two different individuals. Relative density of raptors was expressed as the number of raptors seen per 100 hours of fieldwork. We also collected and recorded the number of fox faeces as an indirect estimate of fox predator pressure. We express the relative predator pressure as the number of raptors, either hen harriers or peregrines present per 100 hours of field work and the total number of fox scats recorded per 100 hours of fieldwork.
Table 3.
Cause of mortality assigned to red grouse corpses collected in England (N = 125) and Scotland (N = 604) from 1986–1995. Figures are total numbers recovered. Further details in Table 1.
Geographic variation in causes of mortality and predator pressure
A total of 729 corpses were collected on the 10 study areas over the 10 years of this study. The principle cause of mortality on all study areas was predation and in 8 of the 10 study areas the principle cause of predation was raptor predation (Table 3).
Geographically the study areas fall into two discrete groups with different predator species and population dynamics (Hudson 1992) so comparisons were made between study areas at the low spatial scale and between countries at the large spatial scale. Significantly more corpses and kills by predators were recovered on Scottish than on English study areas (Mann Whitney U = 0, P = 0.01), with significantly more raptor kills in Scotland than in England (U = 0, P = 0.01), significantly more mammal kills in Scotland than in England (U = 2, P = 0.038), but significantly more parasite kills in England than in Scotland (U = 0, P = 0.01). Since the data in the form of proportions cannot be considered independent, we used compositional analysis (Aitchison 1986), where the proportions were converted to log ratios. Compositional analyses identified significant differences in the proportional cause of death between English and Scottish study areas (F = 21.6, df = 3,6, P = 0.001) with a proportional trend running parasites > raptors > mammals > found dead for the scale of England to Scotland. There was a significantly higher proportion of parasite-related deaths on English than on Scottish study areas (P < 0.05). Whereas there was a numerical difference between Scotland and England, there was no difference in the relative proportion of deaths attributable to the other causes between the two countries. It would appear that corpses are more frequently found on Scottish study areas and more often killed by predators than on English study areas. Proportionately, parasite-induced losses are more common on English than on Scottish study areas, but the other causes of loss occur in similar proportions in the two countries. The relative importance of different predator species also varied between the two countries (F = 15.284, df = 3,6, P < 0.005). Compositional analysis identified stoat kills as being proportionately more common on English than on Scottish study areas; small raptor kills were spread equally between the two countries, whereas fox and large raptor kills were more common in Scotland (P < 0.05 in all cases). Details of corpses recovered where there was clear evidence of the predator species involved (rank > 3) are summarised in Table 4.
Table 4.
Predator species associated with red grouse corpses, based on the corpses where the predator species was identified and the accuracy of the identification was ranked as 3 or higher (see Table 2).
The larger number of predator kills in Scotland is surprising because densities of grouse, and hence the number available for predation, is consistently greater in England (see Table 1). However, observations on the study areas indicate that relative abundance of predators was greater on the Scottish study areas (raptor sightings: t = 3.66, df = 8, P < 0.01; fox faeces: t = 2.83, df = 8, P < 0.025): fox faeces were 5.3 times as abundant and raptors 2.7 times as abundant in Scotland than in England. There was a positive relationship between frequency of predator sightings and ranked abundance of corpses collected from the study areas both for raptors and fox faeces (Spearman rank correlation, for raptors: rs = 0.644, P < 0.05; for fox faeces: rs = 0.824, P < 0.005, Fig. 1).
Seasonal variation in mortality
There was a general tendency for the proportion of all corpses collected (Fig. 2) and the proportion killed by predators to peak in early spring both in English and Scottish study areas. There were no significant differences in the seasonal pattern of corpses between study areas in Scotland or England (F = 3.444, df = 3,6, P = 0.092) nor in the seasonal distribution of predation (F = 3.077, df = 3,6, P = 0.112). Combining both England and Scotland, there were significant differences in the proportion of total corpses found in each season (F = 11.403, df = 3,7, P = 0.004) and in the proportions attributable to predation (F = 15.397, df = 3,7, P = 0.002). In both cases, a significantly higher proportion of corpses (P < 0.05) were found in spring, and fewer in autumn compared to winter and summer (see Fig. 2).
The pattern of greatest mortality in February, March and April (deduced from the high proportion of corpses found at this time) holds true for grouse killed by raptors and mammals both in Scotland and England (Fig. 3). Examination of the data on predators at the specific level confirms that these patterns of mortality are reflected in the four main predators recorded during the study (peregrine, hen harrier, fox and stoat) and that this seasonal peak was not a consequence of a single predator species. However, care should be taken when interpreting these data since not all corpses could be assigned to a predator species. Parasite-induced host mortality, although only recorded in England, tended to be concentrated in the spring months largely during March and April (see Fig. 3c). The recovery of grouse in the 'Other' category peaked in August, quite simply because a number of grouse killed by hunters and not recovered were found in the study areas (see Fig. 3d). The relatively high peak in this category during the winter reflected the accidental collision of grouse with fences and other hazards, often associated with snowy conditions (Hudson 1992).
An examination of the geographical and seasonal variation in the recovery of red grouse corpses from 10, 1-km2 study areas over 10 years revealed some interesting patterns. First, the relatively high rate of corpse recovery from the Scottish populations with numerically more corpses associated with predation. Second, proportionately greater parasite-induced mortality on the English study areas. Third, the seasonal peak of mortality in spring. These findings and their possible consequence for grouse population dynamics will be discussed after consideration of the biases involved with the collection of corpses.
Biases in the collection of corpses
Estimating mortality through a single technique is frequently biased and the optimal approach is to apply a variety of techniques. Although seasonal variation in the frequency of corpse collection may reflect seasonal changes in predator pressure, one should not forget that the behaviour of predators also varies during the year. Breeding predators are likely to remove the prey to feed their offspring off the study area during the summer months. As such, the low recovery rate during the summer will reflect both the reduction in the number of standardised searches by field workers and also the behaviour of the predators. We feel that the data from September through to April provide an accurate and comparative data set between study areas. However, whereas we feel the May to August data set provides reasonable data for comparison among sites, we do not feel that strong conclusions should be drawn from comparisons among these and other months.
Parasite differences
The absence of parasite-induced mortality on the Scottish study areas is probably a consequence of density, because parasite burdens tend to be greater on wetter moors and following years of high density (Hudson, Dobson & Newborn 1985, Hudson et al. 1992b, Hudson 1992). Parasite-induced mortality was not identified on the Danby study area in England. This is a relatively dry, freely drained heather moorland and analyses of shot birds also showed relatively few parasites on this study area compared with the other English study areas, which tended to be wetter, and of which two were blanket bogs (Hudson et al. 1985).
Predation differences between England and Scotland
Comparisons between study areas indicate a greater abundance of predators and an apparently greater proportion of birds lost to predators amongst the low density, Scottish populations. Several findings would support the hypothesis that predation could result in the lower breeding density recorded in these populations. These include higher predation rate, the presence of more predators and the between-site relationship that accounted for some of the variation in grouse breeding density from the number of raptor kills. This does not mean that the English populations had a lower overall mortality. Breeding production on the English and Scottish sites was comparable, but there was a greater mortality to hunting (see Table 1, Hudson 1992) and this hunting mortality could have been offset by the predation losses experienced by the Scottish populations. Despite similar total over-winter loss, including hunting, between high and low density populations, this does not rule out winter mortality as a cause of low breeding density in some areas. If the strength of density-dependent winter loss varied among different populations, this may influence spring numbers even though the average percentage loss remained similar. These results do not demonstrate that the lower Scottish densities are a consequence of this predation. Such a hypothesis requires a detailed analysis of population data between sites, coupled with experimental manipulations which will be presented in a later publication.
Alternative hypotheses could account for the differences in the mortality in England and Scotland. Poor habitat quality in the Scottish populations, as a consequence of grazing and other habitat management procedures, could result in reduced carrying capacity within the Scottish populations and consequently the higher mortality through predation would have little impact on the size of the breeding population. This hypothesis is supported by a comparative study of grouse bags between grouse moors in northeast Scotland that found evidence that high-quality underlying rock and heather burning pattern were important factors (Picozzi 1968). However, a more recent study found that such a relationship did not hold true with a more widespread comparison of bag records (Hudson 1992). This is not to say that the quality of food or cover provided by heather is unimportant for the grouse, rather that it appears unlikely to account for the geographic variations in density or mortality. It remains possible that poor heather cover on some moors may increase the susceptibility of grouse to predators, but the impact of predation will also depend on the abundance of predators. The low level of predation and low numbers of predators on the English study areas imply a lower predator pressure.
A third hypothesis is that spacing behaviour determines the density of breeding grouse and the non-territorial, non-breeding birds are lost to predation. Consequently, such losses have no overall effect on breeding density. This hypothesis is supported by the experimental removal and rapid replacement of territorial birds and observations on survival and territorial status (Watson & Jenkins 1968, Watson 1985). Such work was conducted more than 30 years ago when predator pressure was much lower (Jenkins, Watson & Miller 1963, Hudson 1990, Hudson 1992). More recent work found that such large differences in territorial status and survival did not occur and that experimentally removed birds were not replaced (Hudson 1990, Hudson 1992). One may expect this system to operate only at high density, as recorded in several bird species (e.g. review by Davies 1978), although a recent study on a low density population found that the experimental implantation of testosterone resulted in treated birds expanding their territory size and reducing density (Moss, Parr & Lambin 1996). While the data collected in this study do not test this hypothesis, it is difficult to explain the between-area differences in density (Hudson 1992) without incorporating the larger predator pressure in Scotland. One could argue that the high predation losses was simply a compensation for lower rates of hunting on the Scottish areas, but the predation mortality is also correlated with the abundance of predators, suggesting a link. It seems most unlikely that losses to predation would be totally compensated for through spacing behaviour, although low levels of predation when grouse densities are relatively high could result in total compensation.
There still remains the question of why predators are both more diverse and more abundant on Scottish than on English grouse moors? Hudson (1992) suggested that the greater density of gamekeepers in northern England keep predator numbers at a lower level. Although he referred to predators that can be legally controlled, there is evidence that illegal persecution will locally reduce numbers of protected raptors, particularly hen harriers (Bibby & Etheridge 1993). Additionally there is also a greater species richness of upland birds in the Scottish Highlands (Hudson 1988), which may help support a higher diversity and abundance of predators.
We conclude that there are seasonal and geographical variations in the cause of mortality in red grouse. Of all the corpses, parasitism was proportionately more important in England than Scotland, but numerically there were more corpses attributable to predation in Scotland. Since predation is a major cause of mortality, it may well have an influence on the dynamics of grouse populations, but further details and analyses are required on year-to-year changes and patterns of predation.
we would like to thank the landowners and keepers for allowing us to work on their estates, particular thanks to John & Eira Drysdale and Lord Peel. Steve Redpath set up the initial kill searches on the study areas and we would like to thank him for his help and guidance throughout the study. Flora Booth, David Howarth, John Renton and other field assistants helped in the collection of the data and we are very grateful to them. Steve Redpath, Simon Thirgood, Nicholas Aebischer and Dick Potts provided constructive criticisms on the manuscript.


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