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First North Carolina record of the masked duck

First North Carolina record of western gull

First North Carolina record of yellow-legged gull

First North Island fossil record of kea, and morphological and morphometric comparison of kea and kaka

First Northern Hemisphere record and first juvenile plumage description of the Cox's sandpiper (Calidris paramelanotos)

First Northern Territory record of Arctic skua

First Nova Scotian and second Canadian record of Atlantic fanfish, Pterycombus brama Fries, 1837 (Bramidae)

First Oahu record of the warbling silverbill

First Old World record of the moth family Arrhenophanidae (Lepidoptera: Tineoidea)

First Oligocene records of Calyptogena (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae)

First Ontario breeding record for eared grebe

First Oregon record for the cowcod Sebastes levis

First Oregon record of the gray-headed junco

First Oregon records for two blennioid fishes

First Oxfordshire record of the aquatic warbler

First PNG nesting record for bat hawk Macheiramphus alcinus

First Pacific loon for Connecticut

First Pacific record of a hooded seal, Cystophora cristata Erxleben, 1777

First Pacific records of Pelagocephalus marki Heemstra & Smith (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), and first male specimen of the genus

First Palaearctic and Oriental records of the orthoclad genus Antillocladius Saether (Diptera: Chironomidae)

First Palaearctic record of the genus Laurypta Edwards (Diptera: Keroplatidae)

First Palaearctic record of the orthoclad genus Plhudsonia Saether (Diptera: Chironomidae)

First Palaearctic representative of the genus Ampulicomorpha Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Embolemidae)

First Palaeozoic arachnid from Iberia: Aphantomartus areolatus Pocock (basal Stephanian; prov. Leon, N.W. Spain), with remarks on aphantomartid taxonomy

First Paleogene mammalian fauna from northeast China

First Permocarboniferous insects (blattids) from North Africa (Morocco) - implications on palaeobiogeography and palaeoclimatology

First Phareodus (Osteoglossomorpha: Osteoglossidae) from China

First Phylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) from Baltic amber

First Piedmont record for red phalarope in South Carolina

First Pleistocene records od the genus Siderastraea (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinea) from the Canary Islands

First Pliocene decapod crustacean (Malacostraca: Palinuridae) from the Antarctic

First Polish laboratory attempts to control house long horn beetle (Hylotrupes bajulus L.) with the use of nitrogen

First Polish lepidopterological manuscripts

First Ponape record of a dollarbird, with a summary of the species occurrence in Micronesia

First Potwarmus (Muroidea) from the Miocene of Saudi Arabia and new insights into the origin of murids

First Quaternary fossil record of caecilians from a Mexican archaeological site

First Quebec-Labrador Caribou Conference, 1977

First Queensland record of Heteronympha penelope Waterhouse (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

First Queensland record of the burrowing frog Cyclorana cryptotis Tyler & Martin, 1977 (Anura: Hylidae)

First RIMAPS description of patterns of root development displayed in hydroponics

First Rate In The First State

First Record of Boa constrictor (Serpentes, Boidae) in the Quaternary of South America

First Record of Genus Xestocoris (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Rhyparochromidae: Rhyparochrominae: Lethaeini) from Mexico, with Description of Three New Species

First Record of Macrolabis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in America: A New Inquiline Species from Dasineura folliculi Galls on Goldenrods

First Record of Trypanosoma chattoni in Brazil and Occurrence of Other Trypanosoma Species in Brazilian Frogs (Anura, Leptodactylidae)

First Records of Genus Bruggmanniella (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Asphondyliini) from Palaearctic and Oriental Regions, with Descriptions of Two New Species That Induce Stem Galls on Lauraceae in Japan

First Report of Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida, Thelaziidae) in Wolves in Italy

First Report of the Enigmatic Echinoderm Xyloplax from the North Pacific

First Rhipidia Meigen, 1818 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene)

First Russian captive breeding records.

First SEM studies on tardigrade spermatozoa

First Saskatchewan record of channel catfish

First Scandinavian record of the genus Speocyclops (Copepoda)

First Scottish record of Notiophilus rufipes Curt. (Col.: Carabidae) from Hoy, Orkney

First Siberian Ornithological Conference

First Signature of Islet b-Cell-Derived Naturally Processed Peptides Selected by Diabetogenic Class II MHC Molecules

First Silurian-Lower Devonian conodont finds in Southern Mongolia and their biostratigraphic implications

First South American record for the circum-Mediterranean Patapius spinosus (Rossi) (Heteroptera: Leptopodidae)

First South Australian record of Antarctic petrel

First South Australian record of the Oriental cuckoo Cuculus saturatus

First South Australian record of the fossorial leptodactylid frog genus Uperoleia Gray

First South Australian records of the black-necked stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus and occurrence of vagrants in south-western Queensland

First South Carolina record of Sabine's gull

First South Carolina record of the Lazuli bunting

First South Carolina sight record of the lesser black-backed gull

First South Carolina specimen of the Iceland gull

First South Carolina specimen of the Philadelphia vireo

First South Carolina specimen of the black-legged kittiwake

First South Carolina specimen of the black-throated gray warbler

First South Carolina specimen of the mourning warbler

First South Carolina specimens of the masked booby (Sula dactylatra)

First South Dakota record of Virginia's warbler

First South Hemisphere Cretaceous record of Coreoidea (Insecta, Heteroptera) from Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, northeast Brazil), representing a new genus et species

First State record of long-tailed jaeger, with a note on the occurrence of Arctic terns in Hawaii

First Stereoselective Synthesis of meso-Secoisolariciresinol and Comparison of Its Biological Activity with (+) and (-)-Secoisolariciresinol

First Sullivan County record of least tern

First Swainson's hawk breeding in residential Saskatoon

First Synthesis of ((plus or minus))-Robinlin

First Tasmanian record of the Adelie penguin

First Tennessee banding of a Swainson's warbler

First Tennessee breeding record of red-breasted nuthatch outside of mountains

First Tennessee fall record of Hudsonian godwit

First Tennessee record of Caribbean coot

First Tennessee record of violet-green swallow with a summary of extralimital records in eastern North America

First Tertiary land mammal from Greater Antilles: an Early Miocene sloth (Xenarthra, Megalonychidae) from Cuba

First Tertiary molossid (Microchiroptera: Molossidae) from Australia: its phylogenetic and biogeographic implications

First Tertiary occurrence of a rare patelliform gastropod (Archaeogastropoda: Symmetrocapulidae), Eocene Tejon Formation, Tehachapi Mountains, California

First Texas Panhandle record for garganey

First Texas record of Geoplana arkalabamensis (Turbellaria: Tricladida: Terricola) with a review of other land planarians reported in the state

First Texas records of five genera of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera: Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae) with habitat notes

First Texas specimen of the white-collared swift

First Time In Man (FTIM) Patient Risk Management Plans (PRMPs): A review of small molecules versus biologicals

First Townsend's solitaire in Rock County

First Townsend's solitaire nest records, for Alaska

First Transcaucasian Conference on Entomology. Abstracts of papers. 17-19 November 1986.

First Transcaucasian Conference on Entomology.

First Turolian insectivores from West Germany

First U.S. breeding records for Loriidae

First U.S. hatching of the chambered nautilus

First U.S.A. edition of 'On the Origin of Species', 1860

First UNWTO Regional Seminar on ethics in tourism, Quito, Ecuador, 29-30 June, 2006

First United States nesting records of the streak-backed oriole

First United States record for Anchastus augusti (Candeze) (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

First United States record of Ascalobyas (Neuroptera: Ascalaphidae), a range extension from northeastern Mexico

First United States record of paint-billed crake (Neocrex erythrops)

First United States record of the white-throated robin

First United States record of tufted flycatcher

First United States specimen of the white-collared swift

First Upper Devonian crustacean coprolites: Favreina prima n. sp. from northern Morocco

First Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) ammonites from the Sembar Formation (Belemnite shales), Windar Nai, Lasbela - Balochistan, Pakistan

First Utah records of Thayer's and mew gulls, with comments on their regional distribution and status

First Virginia record for an adventive spittlebug, Neophilaenus lineatus (Homoptera: Cercopidae)

First Virginia records for ten species of Carabidae (Coleoptera)

First Virginia records for three spices of centipeds (Geophilomorpha: Schendylidae)

First Virginia records of four European insect herbivores of Phragmites australis

First Virginia specimen of little gull

First Welsh breeding record of whimbrel 1999 & 2000

First West Indian record of the black noddy and nesting of masked booby at Sombrero Island, Lesser Antilles

First Wilson's warbler collected on the coast of South Carolina

First Workshop of Czechoslovak Hemipterists, Dolna Krupa, October 24-26 1983

First World Congress of Herpetology. Canterbury, (U.K.) 11-19 September 1989

First Zambian records of chestnut-banded sandplover Charadrius pallidus and observations of white-fronted sandplover C. marginatus and Cape teal Anas capensis at the same locality

First Zimbabwe specimen of the rednecked falcon

First accelerator mass spectroscopy 14C dates documenting contemporaneity of nonanalog species in Late Pleistocene mammal communities

First access to territorial space and exposure to strong predation pressure: a conflict in early emerging Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) fry

First account of Bryde's whales Balaenoptera edeni (Anderson, 1878), and of spinner dolphins Stenella longirostris (Gray, 1828), from Komodo Island, Indonesia

First account of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) predation on a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)

First account of a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Texas waters, with a re-evaluation of historical records from the Gulf of Mexico

First account of the birdbeak dogfish shark, Deania calcea, (Chondrichthyes: Squalidae) from the northern coast of Peru

First account on the biology of Cuvier's beaked whale, Ziphius cavirostris, in the Canary Islands

First acquisition of a Wielewaal protected area in Midden-Kempen in the Griesbroek near Balen-Olmen.

First active nest of alder flycatcher in North Carolina

First addition to the list of birds in Bulgaria

First administration of cytidine diphosphocholine and galantamine in schizophrenia: A sustained alpha(7) nicotinic agonist strategy

First admissions to inpatient care in Ireland for schizophrenia 1971-2004: trends in gender and age

First adult laughing gull for Minnesota

First adults of Schedophilus maculatus Gunther, 1860 (Stromateoidei: Centrolophidae)

First aerial survey for wattled cranes

First aerial survey of historical range for peninsular pronghorn of Baja California, Mexico

First aerial surveys of loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in western Mediterranean waters

First age and growth estimates in the deep water shark, Etmopterus Spinax (Linnaeus, 1758), by deep coned vertebral analysis

First age-diagnostic fossils from the central part of the north Greenland foldbelt

First aid and nursing for wild birds

First aid and wound management in the ostrich

First aid emergency care for Australian native mammals

First aid for an ailing reef. Research in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

First aid for depression: A Delphi consensus study with consumers, carers and clinicians

First aid for stranded marine mammals

First aid for your spiders

First aid in birds

First aid treatment of jellyfish stings in Australia. Response to a newly differentiated species

First aid: Level of knowledge of relatives and bystanders in emergency situations

First all-union conference on marine biology

First ammonites from the Mid- to Upper Cretaceous Xigaze Group, south Tibet, and their significance

First amphibian find in Early Permian from Sardinia (Italy)

First analysis of feeding in Anolis lizards

First analysis of the feeding sequence of Chameleo dilepis

First and last dates of migrants

First and last dates of migrants 1993

First and last dates of regular migrants - 1999

First and last dates of selected migrants 1978 (from LNU contributors records)

First and last dates of some Palaearctic migrants in Kenya

First and last migrant dates

First and last occurrence of echinoid families and the nature of their fossil record

First and second Bishop's Glen quelea recoveries

First and second discovery of Cory's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) in Belgium.

First and second language tongue movements in Spanish and Korean bilingual speakers

First and second line mechanisms of cadmium detoxification in the lichen photobiont Trebouxia impressa (Chlorophyta)

First and second record of Steller's eider Polysticta stelleri in Belgium

First and second record of white-rumped sandpiper, Calidris fuscicollis, in Sweden

First and second records of adult Yarrow Pug Eupithecia millefoliata Rossl. (Lep.: Geometridae) for Bedfordshire (VC30)

First and second records of crested honey buzzard Pernis ptilorhynchus in Iran

First and second supplements to the butterflies and moths of the Isle of Man. First supplement

First and second-order kernel multifocal electroretinography abnormalities in acute central serous chorioretinopathy

First and southernmost records of Hirsutella (Ascomycota : Hypocreales) and Pandora (Zygomycota : Entomophthorales) species infecting Dermaptera and Psocodea

First and subsequent asbestos exposures in relation to mesothelioma

First and subsequent asbestos exposures in relation to mesothelioma and lung cancer mortality

First anhinga record for Pennsylvania

First annual Colorado early-winter waterbird survey

First annual Hawk Ridge non-raptor count

First annual report of the Massachusetts avian records committee (MARC)

First appearance biohorizon of Tricolocapsa conexa within Jurassic siliceous mudstone sequences of the Kamiaso area in the Mino Terrane, central Japan - a correlation of radiolarian zones of the Middle Jurassic

First appearance of Globorotalia truncatulinoides: cladogenesis and immigration

First appearance of selected Early Ordovician acritarch taxa from Peri-Gondwana

First appearance of the Himalayas and its relation to global climatic events

First application of the SINE (Short interspersed repetitive element) method to infer phylogenetic relationships in reptiles: An example from the turtle superfamily Testudinoidea

First application of the transplacental micronucleus test in wild rodents (Mammalia)

First approach on the identity and taxonomic position of Bleptinodes perumbrosa (Hampson, 1898) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Herminiinae)

First approach on the skull morphology of the black rat (Rattus rattus) from Terceira and Sao Miguel islands (Azores archipelago)

First approach to determining the prevalence of Oestrus ovis infestation of sheep in Spain

First approximation of the energy and protein budgets in free-ranging wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) in the Etosha National Park

First apterous genus and species of Lygaeidae: Blissinae (Heteroptera)

First archaeological indication of fishing by poison in a sea environment by the Engoroy population at Salango (Manabi, Ecuador)

First arrival dates at two fulmar Fulmarus glacialis colonies in Norfolk

First arrival dates of some common summer migrants to Argyll

First arrival dates of spring migrant passerines in Croatia

First articulated Poracanthodes from the Lower Devonian of Severnaya Zemlya

First articulated skeleton of a terrestrial paleogene African mammal: Saghatherium antiquum (Hyracoidea) from the early oligocene of Libya

First articulated teleost fish from the Paleogene of west Antarctica

First ascertained African condylarth mammals (primitive ungulates: cf. Bulbulodentata and cf. Phenacodonta) from the earliest Ypresian of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco

First asian Sinopa (Proviverrinae, Hyaenodontidae, Creodonta) from the late Middle Eocene of Northern China

First assessment of the highly contaminated harbour of Montevideo, Uruguay

First assessment of the state of the coastal waters of the Baltic Sea

First atlas of bird distribution in the Orange Free State

First attempt in Moscow Zoo for high-continuity vitaminisation of reptiles

First attempt to apply whole-lake food-web manipulation on a large scale in the Netherlands

First attempt to measure the clearance rate of Anuraeopsis fissa

First attempted nesting of double-crested cormorant on the Niagara Frontier

First attempted nesting of ring-billed gull and possible nesting of herring gull in Chemung County

First attempts to optimize the mass rearing of whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus L.) larvae from Leman and Bourget Lakes (France) in tanks and cages

First authentic burrowing owl banded in State of Illinois

First authentic capture of a coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae (Pisces: Latimeriidae), off Madagascar

First autochthonous records of Balanus perforatus Brugiere (Cirripedia Balanomorpha) and Conchoderma auritum (L.) (Cirripedia Lepadomorpha) in the coastal waters of the Netherlands

First autumnal report of birds from Rum Cay, Bahamas

First azure gallinule for North America

First bald eagle nesting record from Sonora, Mexico

First bald eagle's nest in West Virginia

First band-tailed pigeon in Yorkton area

First banded passerine recovered in the Magdalen Islands: yellow-rumped warbler, Dendroica coronata

First banding of an American woodcock in South Dakota

First banding of the boreal owl in New York State

First bandings of Connecticut warblers (Oporornis agilis) in South Carolina

First benthos samples from Eratosthenes Seamount, eastern Mediterranean

First biological data for Aspilodemon Fischer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Hydrangeocolinae): parasitoids of cecidomyiid fly galls on Asteraceae in Brazil

First biostratigraphic (palynological) dating of Middle and Late Cambrian strata in the subsurface of northwestern Algeria, North Africa: Implications for regional stratigraphy

First biostratigraphic evidence for the presence of Triassic at Melia (western Thrace, Greece)

First birds of the year

First birdwatching camp at Corbett Tiger Reserve, May 1994

First birth in captivity of the sun-tailed guenon Cercopithecus solatus Harrison 1988: a recently discovered species

First birth-giving of Qian golden monkey in captivity

First bite for hardness judgment as haptic exploratory procedure

First black carp captured in U.S

First black rhino in 20 years

First black-headed grosbeak record for southeastern Minnesota

First boreal owl fledglings for Washington State

First boreal owl nesting record south of Canada: a diary

First breeding and nidification, record of cheer pheasant (Catreus wallichii) in Jhelum Valley, Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

First breeding attempt of crossbill Loxia curvirostra in Iceland

First breeding by a wild pair of night heron in Flanders this century

First breeding case of storm petrels (Hydrobates pelagicus) in Greece

First breeding data for cherry-throated tanager Nemosia rourei

First breeding in Europe of the Mauritius kestrel at Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust

First breeding in North America of South Georgia pintail

First breeding of Damara tern at Cape Recife

First breeding of Lacerta cyanura

First breeding of freckled duck in captivity

First breeding of garganey in Derbyshire

First breeding of one or two pairs of black kite in West-Vlaanderen

First breeding of the Aldabra tortoise Geochelone gigantea at Sydney Zoo

First breeding of the Fischer's touraco

First breeding of the Mali firefinch in the United Kingdom

First breeding of the Papuan python (Apadora papuana Peters and Doria 1878) at the Moscow Zoo

First breeding of the St. Lucia serpent Bothrops caribbaea in captivity

First breeding of the Swainson's (chestnut-mandibled) toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii)

First breeding of the black-crowned avocet in Zimbabwe

First breeding of the purple swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio in Sicily as a result of the reintroduction program in progress

First breeding of the superb fruit-dove Ptilinopus superbus (purple-crowned pigeon) in South Australia

First breeding of the tufted duck in the Isle of Man

First breeding of the willow warbler in Bulgaria

First breeding of the yellow-legged gull Larus cachinnans michahellis in the Karst

First breeding of white-tailed plover in the UAE

First breeding of yellow wagtail in Arabia

First breeding record and summer records for the white-eyed vireo in the Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma

First breeding record for Gambaga flycatcher Muscicapa gambagae in East Africa

First breeding record for Mississippi kite in Virginia

First breeding record for Zimbabwe of the red-shouldered widow

First breeding record for shelduck in Iceland

First breeding record for the Nashville warbler, Vermivora ruficapilla, in Alberta

First breeding record for the Natal nightjar in Zimbabwe

First breeding record for the great egret (Casmerodius albus) in Washington

First breeding record for the noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) in the Iberian Peninsula

First breeding record of Cape shoveller in Zimbabwe

First breeding record of Finsch's wheatear (Oenanthe finschii) and some observations of four other Oenanthe species in Bulgaria

First breeding record of Franklin's gull for Colorado

First breeding record of Namaqua sandgrouse in Zimbabwe

First breeding record of Peregrine Falcons in Toyama Prefecture

First breeding record of Ross's gull in Canada

First breeding record of a blue jay in Oregon

First breeding record of black redstart in Narvos area

First breeding record of black-crowned night heron in Nova Scotia

First breeding record of black-winged stilt in Oman

First breeding record of boulderchat Pinarornis plumosus in Malawi

First breeding record of common crossbill Loxia curvirostra in the Isle of Wight

First breeding record of coot at Aakulam Lake, Kerala

First breeding record of great skua (Stercorarius skua) in Novaya Zemlya

First breeding record of grey-headed lapwing Vanellus cinereus at Noda City in Chiba Prefecture, central Japan

First breeding record of grey-headed parrot Poicephalus suahelicus in Botswana

First breeding record of hadada Bostrychia hagedash from Senegal

First breeding record of honey buzzards in Fukui

First breeding record of little bittern Ixobrychus minutus

First breeding record of little grey woodpecker Dendropicos elachus in Nigeria

First breeding record of little gull Larus minutus in Xinjiang, China

First breeding record of little ringed plover Charadrius dubius

First breeding record of ovambo sparrowhawk Accipiter ovampensis in West Africa

First breeding record of pallid swift Apus pallidus in Qatar

First breeding record of rufous nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos

First breeding record of sandwich tern in Arabia

First breeding record of shoveler in Arabia

First breeding record of siskin Carduelis spinus in Iceland

First breeding record of spotted towhee in Oklahoma

First breeding record of squacco and night herons in Arabia and other interesting breeding records for near Riyadh Saudi Arabia

First breeding record of striped flufftail (221) in the western Cape

First breeding record of the Caspian tern in Baja California, (Norte), Mexico

First breeding record of the Izu Islands thrush Turdus celaenops from Oshima, Izu Islands

First breeding record of the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) in Poland

First breeding record of the Lawrence's warbler in Ontario

First breeding record of the bee-eater Merops apiaster in Scania

First breeding record of the black woodpecker in the province of Oost-Vlaanderen (Belgium)

First breeding record of the black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus himantopus) in Taiwan

First breeding record of the bull-headed shrike from the Ogasawara Islands

First breeding record of the cicadabird in the Northern Territory

First breeding record of the collared falconet Microhierax caerulescens for the Indian Subcontinent in Corbett National Park, Uttar Pradesh

First breeding record of the coppery-tailed coucal in Zimbabwe

First breeding record of the cuckoo Cuculus canorus

First breeding record of the dickcissel in Florida

First breeding record of the double-crested cormorant in Virginia

First breeding record of the double-crested cormorant in the Creston Valley, British Columbia

First breeding record of the dunlin, Calidris alpina, on Baffin Island, Northwest Territories

First breeding record of the fleshy-footed shearwater in South Australia

First breeding record of the great black-backed gull Larus marinus in The Netherlands

First breeding record of the horned curassow

First breeding record of the lesser black-headed gull in the Macronesic Archipelago, North Atlantic; a large spread in its breeding range

First breeding record of the lesser seedcracker in Zimbabwe

First breeding record of the mandarin in Argyll

First breeding record of the pale ouzel Turdus pallidus from Honshu

First breeding record of the red-headed tit (Aegithalos concinnus) in Taiwan

First breeding record of the redhead in southeast Alaska

First breeding record of the ringed plover in Oxfordshire

First breeding record of the short-clawed lark

First breeding record of the short-eared owl in Kentucky

First breeding record of the silvery grebe (Podiceps occipitalis) in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

First breeding record of the snow bunting for British Columbia

First breeding record of the snowy plover for San Clemente Island

First breeding record of the sora and American coot in Alaska - with comments on drought displacement

First breeding record of the taita falcon in South Africa

First breeding record of the upland buzzard Buteo hemilasius for the Indian subcontinent in Changthang, Ladakh, and identification characters of upland buzzard and long-legged buzzard Buteo rufinus

First breeding record of the white-tailed laurel pigeon Columba junoniae on Tenerife (Canary Islands)

First breeding record of the yellow crowned night heron in Richmond County, New York City

First breeding record of warbling vireo in South Carolina

First breeding record of whiskered tern Chlidonias hydrida in Zambia

First breeding record of white-backed night heron in Malawi

First breeding record of white-tailed lapwing in Romania (and Europe outside Russia)

First breeding record of whitefronted bee-eaters

First breeding record, incubation period and density of the greater swamp warbler in Zimbabwe

First breeding records for Coraciiformes and Piciformes reared in the UK

First breeding records for diurnal birds of prey in the UK

First breeding records for partridge, quail and francolins in the UK

First breeding records of black stork in Malawi

First breeding records of black-chinned mountain-tanager Anisognathus notabilis and first nesting records in the wild of blue-winged mountain-tanager A. flavinucha with ecological notes

First breeding records of greyheaded gulls Larus cirrocephalus from the Eastern Cape, South Africa

First breeding records of honey buzzards and goshawks in Kaga, Ishikawa

First breeding records of kelp gulls Larus dominicanus vetula at Robben Island, Western Cape, South Africa

First breeding records of palm dove Streptopelia senegalensis and starling Sturnus vulgaris in Iraq

First breeding records of shelduck and black guillemot on Ailsa Craig, Ayrshire (V.C.74)

First breeding records of slaty-backed gull (Larus schistisagus) for North America

First breeding records of sparrowhawk in Israel

First breeding records of tawny pipit Anthus campestris

First breeding records of the black-bellied whistling-duck for Oklahoma

First breeding records of the moorhen Gallinula chloropus in Gozo

First breeding records of the moorhen in the Maltese Islands

First breeding records of the starling Sturnus vulgaris

First breeding records of the white-faced ibis in North Dakota

First breeding records of white-winged flufftail

First breeding records of whooper swan and brambling in North America at Attu Island, Alaska

First breedings at Chester Zoo

First butterflies of spring

First captive 'akohekohe brought into captivity

First captive breeding of Lacerta (Omanosaura) cyanura Arnold, 1972, with comments on systematic implications posed by the reproductive pattern and the juvenile dress (Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae)

First captive breeding of Mexican wolf

First captive breeding of Oriental crested ibis (Nipponia nippon)

First captive breeding of the Guaiabero parrot

First captive breeding of the Jamaican black-billed amazon Amazona agilis

First captive breeding of the Sri Lankan rain forest ornamental (Poecilotheria subfusca)

First captive breeding of the aye-aye Daubentonia madagascariensis

First captive breeding of the endangered small Kauai thrush (Puaiohi) Myadestes palmeri

First captive breeding of the gharial (Gavialis gangeticus)

First captive breeding of the lesser spotted eagle Aquila pomarina in Riga Zoo

First captive breeding of the marine toad (Bufo marinus) at Al Ain Zoo and Aquarium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

First captive breeding of the secretary bird Sagittarius serpentarius at the Walsrode Bird Park

First captive-bred aye-aye born in America

First capture dates of lesser honeyguides at two localities in the southwestern Cape Province

First capture of Micronycteris homezi Pirlot (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) in Brazil

First capture of a coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae (Pisces, Latimeriidae), off Mozambique

First capture of green barb Puntius semifasciolatus (Cyprinidae) in inland waters of Russia

First capture of subalpine warbler Sylvia cantillans

First capture of the northern subspecies of the treecreeper, Certhia familiaris familiaris, in Belgium. First and second capture of the treecreeper on the Belgium coast.

First case of Anopheles sp. breeding in water filled cellars

First case of H-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy identified in Great Britain

First case of Ochroconis humicola infection in marine cultured fish in Japan

First case of canine peritoneal larval cestodosis caused by Mesocestoides lineatus in Germany

First case of dicephaly in Odontoceti

First case of feline systemic Cryptococcus albidus infection

First case of finding gynandromorphism in Ischnura fountainei.

First case of lobomycosis in a bottlenose dolphin from southern Brazil

First case of natural infection in pigs. Review of Trypanosoma cruzi reservoirs in Mexico

First case report in Japan of left ventricular pacing via a coronary vein in a patient with a mechanical tricuspid valve

First case report of monozygotic twins with Smith-Magenis Syndrome

First case report of scorpion sting in Puerto Rico

First cases of Pacheco's disease in parrots diagnosed in Poland

First cases of onchocerciasis detected in Tallin in Soviet specialists returning from Equatorial Guinea

First cases of sheep trichophytosis in Yugoslavia

First catch your grasshopper

First catch your koala! Use of a trap to capture koalas Phascolarctos cinereus for ecological studies

First catches of the African pike Hepsetus odoe (Bloch, 1794) (Pisces: Hepsetidae) in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe

First cattle egret in Mahnomen County

First census of breeding seabirds between Cap Bienvenue (Terre Adelie) and Moyes Islands (King George V Land), Antarctica: new records for Antarctic seabird populations

First central Pacific Plate and Hawaiian record of the deep-sea tripod fish Bathypterois grallator (Pisces: Chlorophthalmidae)

First certain record of California gull (Larus californicus) in Florida

First chapter of book of life goes live

First characterisation of the active oligomer form of sulfur oxygenase reductase from the bacterium Aquifex aeolicus

First characterization and partial molecular cloning of a metalloproteinase from hemocytes of Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

First characterization of heterogeneous resistance to imipenem in invasive nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae isolates

First chromosome record for the family Dryinidae: the karyotype of Anteon brevicorne Dalman (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea)

First chromosome records for the superfamily Ceraphronoidea and new data for some genera and species of Evanioidea and Chrysididae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea)

First citation and description of four freshwater Pulmonata from Tunisia (Mollusca, Orthogastropoda) FT Premiere citation et description de quatre Pulmones dulcicoles de tunisie (Mollusca, Orthogastropoda)

First citrine wagtail in Belgium

First class nest box

First clinical experience of "Flower petal" stenting a novel technique

First clinical report of tipifarnib for the treatment of T-large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukemia

First clinical results of HuMax-CD20 fully human monoclonal IGG1 antibody treatment in rheumatoid arthritis

First clinical results on the potential of intraoperative imaging for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer.

First clinical study of a new virus-inhibiting surgical glove

First collections of the weed shiner, Notropis texanus, in Canada

First common seal to be bred in captivity in Britain

First communication on Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from north eastern USSR.

First communication on phorid flies of the subfamily Phorinae (Diptera, Phoridae) from Primorye.

First communication to Pyralidae (Lepidoptera) fauna from the Kurile Islands.

First complete clutch record for the central plains milk snake (Lampropeltis triangulum gentilis) in Kansas

First complete large subunit ribosomal RNA sequence and secondary structure for a parasitic nematode: phylogenetic and diagnostic implications

First complete restoration of the Oreopithecus skull

First complete skull of the Late Triassic Scalenodontoides (Reptilia Cynodontia) from southern Africa

First conference of aquarists and terrarium specialists in Prague in 90 years.

First conference on the black stork.

First conference on trans-boundary biodiversity in the Eastern Himalayas held in Kunming, China

First confirmation of multiple fibropapillomas in a Western Australian green turtle (Chelonia mydas)

First confirmation of the presence of the Liberian mongoose, Liberiictis kuhni, in Cote d' Ivoire

First confirmed Canadian sight record of Bendire's thrasher, Toxostoma bendirei

First confirmed Irish record of Epinotia rubiginosana (Herrich-Schaffer 1851) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

First confirmed Kentucky warbler breeding record in Minnesota

First confirmed New Jersey record of black-capped petrel

First confirmed New World record of Apocyclops dengizicus (Lepeshkin), with a key to the species of Apocyclops in North America and the Caribbean region (Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopidae)

First confirmed North Dakota nesting of the common poorwill

First confirmed Tennessee nest record of the northern saw-whet owl

First confirmed breeding by a white-phase southern giant petrel Macronectes giganteus at the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands

First confirmed breeding of cream-coloured courser in the United Arab Emirates

First confirmed breeding of goosander in Cheshire

First confirmed breeding of the least bittern in Inyo county, California

First confirmed breeding record of LeConte's sparrow, Ammodramus leconteii, in eastern Ontario

First confirmed breeding record of Pallas's grasshopper warbler Locustella certhiola in Kyrgyzstan

First confirmed breeding record of grey goshawks in South Australia

First confirmed breeding record of the black winged stilt in the Province of Groningen in 1986.

First confirmed breeding records and other incidental sightings of northern harriers in Labrador

First confirmed case of cerebrospinal setariosis in goat in Taiwan

First confirmed east-west transpacific movement of a loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, released in Baja California, Mexico

First confirmed nest site of boreal owls in Montana

First confirmed nesting of Mississippi kite in North Carolina

First confirmed nesting of a goshawk in Maryland

First confirmed nesting of pine siskins in southeastern Minnesota

First confirmed nesting of the black-shouldered kite in Washington

First confirmed occurrence of loggerhead turtles in Peru

First confirmed record of Agyrtria versicolor (Trochilidae) for Peru

First confirmed record of Papilio demoleus (Linnaeus 1758) in Syria, with comments on the species' appearance in Turkey and the Dominican Republic

First confirmed record of eastern screech-owl (Otus asio) in Sudbury district

First confirmed record of noctule Nyctalus noctula in Norway

First confirmed record of oilbird Steatornis caripensis for Brazil

First confirmed record of sharp-tailed sandpiper (Calidris acuminata) in New Jersey

First confirmed record of teleost predation on a shark egg case

First confirmed records of dusky flycatcher for Nebraska

First confirmed records of fish (Cottus bairdi) from Trout Park Nature Preserve (Elgin Botanical Gardens) since park perturbation by 1-90 construction, 1957

First confirmed report of Thersamonia thersamon Esp. (Lycaenidae) in Tuscany, northern-central Italy

First confirmed reports of beaked whales, cf. Mesoplodon bidens and M. densirostris (Ziphiidae), from New Brunswick

First confirmed sighting of the parakeet auklet, Cyclorrhynchus psittacula, in Canada

First confirmed sighting of the stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides) in Peninsular Malaysia

First congress in Italy where the mass slaughter of birds is exposed. Mayor of Bordighera stands up for migratory birds.

First conodonts from the Triassic sediments of south-east Pamir

First contemporary record of New Zealand fur seals Arctocephalus forsteri breeding in Bass Strait

First contribution about characeae in Friuli Venezia Giulia and neighbourhood: Genus chara L

First contribution about characeae in Friuli Venezia Giulia and neighbourhood: Genus chara L.

First contribution karyology of two acoels (Turbellaria) and a dinophilid (Annelida)

First contribution to karyology of Geocentrophora baltica (Turbellaria-Lecithoepitheliata)

First contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Epitoxus Lewis (Coleoptera: Histeridae)

First contribution to the knowledge of alpine grassland tardigrades

First contribution to the knowledge of the terrestrial Tardigrada at Puerto Rico: Density, abundance and species richness

First contribution to the mayfly fauna from Slovenia (Ephemeroptera)

First contribution to the revision of the Oxychilus-species living in the Italian Apennine regions: Zonites uziellii Issel (Pulmonata: Zonitidae)

First contribution to the revision of the genus Agrilus of the Ethiopic region. (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)

First correlation between Late Jurassic ammonite and 'microproblematic' biostratigraphic scales. Results from Marches Apennines (central Italy)

First cosmogenic 10Be age constraint on the timing of Younger Dryas glaciation and ice cap thickness, western Scottish Highlands

First crystallographic models of human TBC domains in the context of a family-wide structural analysis

First cytogenetic analysis of the genus Bibimys (Cricetidae, Rodentia)

First cytogenetical studies in Characidium species (Pisces: Characiformes: Characidiinae)

First dark morph brood of Montagu's harriers (Circus pygargus) in 14 years in Italy

First data about Sylvia melanocephala and Sylvia atricapilla wintering populations in a Mediterranean isle in south-Italy

First data about the ecology of the Aveiro saltpond (Portugal)

First data on Bruchidae which attacks the pods of legumes in Upper Volta of which eight species are man consumed

First data on Late Pleocene microterriofauna of Tekess depression (Kazakhstan)

First data on Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor O.F. Muller, 1776 (Annelida, Polychaeta) in the estuary of the Aljezur River (SW coast of Portugal)

First data on a finding of Myxobolus najdenovae (Protozoa: Chidospora: Myxosporea) in Azov Sea

First data on an Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) based on fish assemblages for the assessment of the impact of deforestation in a tropical West African river system

First data on batch fecundity and relative fecundity of Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) (Clupeidae) in the south-western Adriatic Sea

First data on biology and breeding success of Tengmalm's owl Aegolius funereus in Cansiglio

First data on breeding storm petrels Hydrobates pelagicus in Galicia (NW Iberia)

First data on cellulolytic enzyme activity in polychaete borers associated to Posidonia oceanica sheaths

First data on community structure and trophic networks of Uvea coral reef fish assemblages (Wallis and Futuna, South Pacific Ocean)

First data on complete summer moult in the great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) in northern Italy

First data on contamination of otters in the Netherlands

First data on distribution and biology of Squalus blainvillei (Risso, 1826) from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

First data on egg laying and egg number in the tawny owl Strix aluco.

First data on fish Myxosporidia of the south-eastern Pacific open waters

First data on mining moths of the family Bucculatricidae (Lepidoptera) from southern Primorye with descriptions of 10 new species

First data on monoamine peptide-containing elements of the nervous system of Nemertines

First data on moult of raptors of the genus Circus sp. during spring migration

First data on ornithofauna of the fish pond near Srpski Miletic and its surroundings (western Backa)

First data on small mammal fauna from Krnjeusa (Bosanska Krajina), as obtained by a barn owl, Tyto alba (Scop., 1769) pellet analysis

First data on subtidal meiofauna of Tremiti Islands

First data on the Calanoida (Copepoda) of the northern Gulf of Elat (Red Sea)

First data on the Schistocephalus nemachili (Cestoda: Ligulidae), the parasite of the groundling in the Baikal region

First data on the biology of the anadromous malma Salvelinus malma from the Chegitum River Basin (Arctic coast of the eastern Chukchee Peninsula)

First data on the chromosomes of the three Adriatic fish species (S. porcus, S. ustulata and Corvina nigra)

First data on the communicative behaviour of three Mediterranean grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

First data on the demography and growth of Millerigobius macrocephalus (Kolombatovic, 1891) (Teleostei; Gobiidae), in Corsica (France)

First data on the density of the Polychaeta Hediste diversicolor O.F. Muller, 1776 (Annelida, Polychaeta) in the small river of Odeceixe (southwest coast of Portugal)

First data on the diets of Nyctalus leisleri (Kuhl, 1817) and Myotis bechsteinii (Kuhl, 1817) in the Tuscan-Emilian Appennines (north-central Italy)

First data on the dynamics of downstream migration of the whitefish larvae in the Anadyr River

First data on the hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Valencia, Spain

First data on the juvenile Atlantic bonito Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793) from the Adriatic Sea

First data on the kodkod in Argentina

First data on the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Slovenia (north Adriatic)

First data on the migration of Siberian peregrine Falco peregrinus calidus at the Straits of Messina and comments on its status in Italy

First data on the mysid community in the Stagnone di Marsala (western Sicily)

First data on the occurrence of Lacerta agilis erythronotus-mutants in Slovenia

First data on the population structure, growth rate and ontogenetic allometry of the tortoise Testudo hermanni in eastern Stara Planina (Bulgaria)

First data on the predation of Felis catus L., 1758 on Gallotia simonyi machadoi Lopez-Jurado, 1989 in El Hierro, Canary Islands (Sauria, Lacertidae)

First data on the size of north-Iberian roe bucks (Capreolus capreolus)

First data on the soil arthropod community in an olive grove in central Italy

First data on the superficial underground compartment in La Gomera (Canary Islands)

First data on the winter diet of the polecat, Mustela putorius (Carnivora, Mustelidae) in Italy

First data on water chemistry and biota of the lakes in the volcanic cones of Damt, Yemen

First date on the presence of Palaeomerycidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) in the European Upper Miocene

First deep-sea records and range extension of the nudibranchiate of mollusc Coryphella stimpsoni (Verrill) (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia)

First definite record of the King penguin for continental Africa

First definitive record of the mosasaur Tylosaurus proriger from the Niobrara formation (Upper Cretaceous), South Dakota

First definitive stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan

First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria; Theropoda) from North America

First described nest and nest site activity of the truk greater white-eye (Rukia ruki)

First described renesting attempt by an American bittern

First description and survey of the egg masses of Loligo gahi (d'Orbigny, 1835) and Loligo sanpaulensis (Brakoniecki, 1984) from coastal waters of Patagonia

First description of Metridia okhotensis Brodsky, 1950 (Crustacea: Copepoda) male, with female, fifth copepodites, and notes on distribution in British Columbia inlets

First description of Scheloribates semidesertus (Sarcoptiformes, Oribatei)

First description of a dengue fever outbreak in an inland Guiana town: Maripasoula, France, February 2006

First description of a fossil pauropod, Eopauropus balticus n. gen. n. sp. (Pauropoda: Pauropodidae), in Baltic amber

First description of a fossil symphylan, Scutigerella dominicana sp. n. (Scutigerellidae, Symphyla) in Dominican amber

First description of a humpback whale wintering ground in Baie d'Antongil, Madagascar

First description of a hybrid blue x sage grouse

First description of a living Bursa scrobilator (L.)

First description of a tent used by Platyrrhinus helleri (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

First description of adult Huffmanela huffmani Moravec, 1987 (Nematoda: Trichosomoididae) from the swimbladder of centrarchid fishes of the upper San Marcos River, central Texas

First description of albinism in a dark-morph red-tailed hawk in North America

First description of an adhesion defective mutant of Flavobacterium columnare produced by B-lactam selection

First description of cervical vertebrae for an Early Cretaceous titanosaur from North America

First description of early juveniles of Neosynchiropus ocellatus (Pisces: Callionymidae) from the Okinawa and Izu, Japan

First description of egg sacs and early larval development in hynobiid salamanders (Urodela, Hynobiidae, Batrachuperus) from north-eastern Iran

First description of fossil Dacetini ants with a critical analysis of the current classification of the tribe. (Amber collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. 6. Dacetini)

First description of fossil gardening ants (Amber Collection Stuttgart and Natural History Museum Basel, Hymenoptera: Formicidae. 1: Attini)

First description of four species tenebrionid-larvae (Coleoptera) from Inner Mongolia-Xinjiang Region

First description of humpback whale song from Antongil Bay, Madagascar

First description of male and redescription of female of Onchocerca garmsi Bain et Schulz-Key, 1976, a parasite of red deer

First description of microchromosome in the Anostomidae fish Schizodon nasutus from Argentina

First description of natural Echinococcus multilocularis infections in chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger) and Prevost's squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii borneoensis)

First description of nest and nesting behavior of the nightingale wren

First description of nest and nestlings of white-winged shrike-tanager Lanio versicolor

First description of preimaginal phases of two species of Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) from central Asia.

First description of small juveniles of the primitive catfish Diplomystes (Siluriformes: Diplomystidae)

First description of the ancestrula of Thalamoporella stapifera and preliminary observations on its early astogeny

First description of the egg and notes on the nest of the Cinnamon-tailed Sparrow (Aimophila sumichrasti)

First description of the eggs and nest of the golden-winged sparrow Arremon schlegeli

First description of the eggs of the white-winged guan, Penelope albipennis, with notes on its nest

First description of the female of Parasimulium stonei Peterson (Diptera: Simuliidae) with notes and a discussion on collection sites

First description of the immature stages of Hemilucilia segmentaria (Diptera : Calliphoridae)

First description of the karyotype of Adesmia cancellata (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)

First description of the male Stegopterna sibirica decemfilis Rubz. (Diptera, Simuliidae) from Primorsk Territory.

First description of the male and new data on the female of Cristitectus congeri Petter, 1970 (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae)

First description of the male and the larva of Camptopteromyia fractipennis de Meijere from Malaysia (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

First description of the male of Heteropoda cyperusiria Barrion & Litsinger 1995 from the Philippines (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)

First description of the male of Tachinus (Tachinus) longulus Li et Ohbayashi (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

First description of the male opposium shrimp, Heteromysis bermudensis bermudensis (Crustacea: Mysidacea)

First description of the nest and egg of the tanager finch (Oreothraupis arremonops Sclater 1855), with additional notes on behavior

First description of the nest and eggs of the Gray-and-gold Warbler (Basileuterus fraseri) FT Primera descripcion del nido y de los huevos de la Reinita Grisidorada (Basileuterus fraseri)

First description of the nest and eggs of the Socorro mockingbird

First description of the nest and eggs of the black grasswren Amytornis housei (Milligan) with notes on breeding

First description of the nest and eggs of the black solitaire

First description of the nest and eggs of the green-crowned brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula), with some behavioral notes

First description of the nest and eggs of the moss-backed tanager (Buthraupis (Bangsia) edwardsi)

First description of the nest and eggs of the rufous-throated dipper (Cinclus schulzi) in northwestern Argentina

First description of the nest and eggs of the sooty-faced finch

First description of the nest and eggs of the white-striped warbler (Basileuterus leucophrys)

First description of the nest and young of the Agile Tit-Tyrant (Uromyias agilis)

First description of the nest of the golden-breasted puffleg Eriocnemis mosquera

First description of the nest of the olive finch, Lysurus castaneiceps

First description of the nest of the slender-billed finch

First description of the nest of the wing-banded wren in French Guiana

First description of the nest of yellow flycatcher Erythrocercus holochlorus

First description of the nest, eggs and nestling of the Guayaquil woodpecker

First description of the nest, eggs, and young of the Tumbes sparrow (Aimophila (Rhynchospiza) stolzmanni)

First description of the nest, eggs, hatchlings, and incubation behavior of the White-bellied Antpitta (Grallaria hypoleuca)

First description of the nest, eggs, young, and breeding behavior of the great antpitta (Grallaria excelsa)

First description of the nest, nest site, and eggs of the ochre-breasted antpitta

First description of the stem gall of Rhopalomyia baccharis Felt, 1908 (Diptera : Cecidmyiidae), on Baccharis pilularis De Candolle (Asteraceae)

First description of the use of diclazuril to treat clinical coccidiosis and prevent outbreaks in kennels

First description of whistles of pacific fraser's dolphins Lagenodelphis hosei

First descriptions of dinosaur trackways from the Haman Formation, Cretaceous, South Korea: evidence and implications

First detailed description of captured savannah sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis in Ibaraki Prefecture

First detailed field data on Chiropotes satanas utahicki Hershkovitz, 1985

First detection and sequence analysis of the bla-CTX-M-15 gene in Lebanese isolates of extended-spectrum-beta-lactamaseproducing Shigella sonnei

First detection of Dobrava hantavirus from a patient with severe haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome by SYBR Green-based real time RT-PCR

First detection of human babesiosis in the USSR and brief analysis of the recorded cases in literature

First detection of measles genotype D7 from India

First detection of monodon baculovirus in Japan

First detection of stolbur phytoplasma in grapevines (Vitis vinifera

First detection of the protozoan parasite Bonamia exitiosa (Haplosporidia) infecting flat oyster Ostrea edulis grown in European waters

First determination of DNA fragmentation levels by the Sperm Chromatin Dispersion (SCD) test in testicular sperm samples; Spermatogenesis and reproductive outcome correlations

First determination of Ehrlichia infected ticks among the primary vectors of the tick-borne encephalitis and borreliosis in the Russian Baltic region

First diagnosis and eradication of swine dysentry in Fujian Province

First digital flexible ureterorenoscope: Initial experience

First dinosaur record from Tennessee: a Campanian hadrosaur

First dinosaur remains from the Cenomanian-Turonian Nimar sandstone (Bagh Beds), District Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India

First dinosaur teeth from the Lower Cretaceous of Benicatazara (Aras de Alpuente, Valencia)

First direct evidence of a vertebrate three-level trophic chain in the fossil record

First direct evidence of migration by an East pacific green seaturtle from Michoacan, Mexico to a feeding ground on the sonoran coast of the gulf of California

First disclosure of lipid droplet substructure and myelin translucency in embedment-free section electron Microscopy

First discoveries of Bryozoa in Upper Permian of Dzhagdy range.

First discoveries of anthropoid postcranial remains from Taqah (Early Oligocene, Sultanate of Oman)

First discoveries of conodonts in the Middle and Upper Carboniferous of Darvaz and Peter the First Khrebet.

First discoveries of new antelopes in Botswana

First discoveries of representatives of the genus Plicostricklandia and Protatrypa (Brachiopoda) in the Silurian of Moldavia and Vaigach Island.

First discovery and raise of the Houbara bustard in Hebei Province

First discovery of Bugula stolonifera Ryland, 1960 (Phylum Bryozoa) in Japanese waters, as an alien species to the Port of Nagoya

First discovery of Cervus unicolor from Holocene of Shanghai and its significance

First discovery of Cotycurus cornutus in domestic chickens

First discovery of Dicyemida (Mesozoa) in Caribbean cephalopods

First discovery of Dryopithecus in east China

First discovery of Dugong (Dugonginae) from the Middle Miocene in Kogawa, Kitahiyama-cho, Hokkaido

First discovery of Gylorithes (spirally coiled burrow; trace fossil) from the Pleistocene Haneji Formation in the central part of Okinawa-jima, Okinawa Prefecture, southwest Japan

First discovery of Helohyidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) in the Late Eocene of Thailand: a possible transitional form for Anthracotheriidae

First discovery of Hystrix primigenia Wagner, from the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene deposits of Shahinova, Berat, south-west Albania

First discovery of Megaceros (Mammalia) in Ningxia

First discovery of Middle Devonian galeaspids in China

First discovery of Muellerisphaerida (inc. sedis) and Eoalbaillella (Radiolaria) in Turkey and the age of the siliciclastic sequence (clastic series) in Karaburun peninsula

First discovery of Mymarommatidae (Hymenoptera) from China, with description of a new species

First discovery of Nesiarchus nasutus Johnson, 1862 (Gempylidae) in the southeastern Pacific

First discovery of Niphargus aquilex Schiodte in Italy (Contribution to the knowledge of Amphipoda 114)

First discovery of Niphargus bihorensis Schell. 1940 (Fam. Gammaridae) in Italy with remarks to N. elegans Garb. 1894. (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda III)

First discovery of Polypteridae (Pisces, Cladista, Polypteriformes) outside of Africa

First discovery of Stercorarius parasitius in continent of China

First discovery of Zoarcidae in New Zealand waters

First discovery of a Tertiary platanistoid fossil from Asia

First discovery of a cyndont from the Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of northeastern Arizona

First discovery of a species of the rare tube-nosed insectivorous bat (Murina) in Australia

First discovery of an Homacodontinae (Artiodactyla, Dichobunidae) in the Middle Eocene of western Europe: Eygalayodon montenati new genus, new species. Considerations on the evolution of primitive artiodactyls

First discovery of asselian ammonoid fauna in China

First discovery of conodonts from Upper Triassic deposits of Kotelny Island

First discovery of eotitanosuchian (Therapsida, Synapsida) of China

First discovery of facultative paedomorphosis in amphibian fossils

First discovery of fossil Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) from Tokunoshima, southwestern Japan

First discovery of fossil dung beetle brood balls and nests in the Chadian Pliocene australopithecine levels

First discovery of fossil pike (Esox, Pisces, Teleostei) from China

First discovery of genus Arculfia J.L. Barnard in the Mediterranean Sea, with remarks on two other members of the family Pardaliscidae. (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 156)

First discovery of genus Melitoides Tzv. in Japan with remarks on some Japanese Eogammarus species. Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda. 98

First discovery of genus Niphargus Sch. in Iraq, Israel and adjacent regions, with description of N. itus, new species (fam. Niphargidae). (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 153)

First discovery of genus Phoxocephalus Stebb. 1888 in the Mediterranean Sea, P. aquosus, n. sp. (fam. Phoxocephalidae). (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 159)

First discovery of male Rudiaeschna limnobia Ren, 1996 and its venational variability

First discovery of natural infection of metacestode of Echinococcus multilocularis in Microtus ilaeus in Nilka County Xinjiang, China

First discovery of neotenic population of smooth newt, Triturus vulgaris (Linnaeus 1753) in Yugoslavia

First discovery of perciform fishes of the family Malacanthidae in the Middle Eocene of the North Caucasus

First discovery of physeterid fossil from the Haraichi Formation (Middle Miocene), Tomioka Group, Gunma, Japan

First discovery of placodermi remains in Japan

First discovery of sympatric paromomyid species in Europe

First discovery of the Carboniferous genus Hinaclema (Bryozoa) in the USSR

First discovery of the Palaeotapirus in China

First discovery of the Palaeozoic fishes in Mongolia

First discovery of the ancient dingo-type dog in Polynesia (Pukapuka, Cook Islands)

First discovery of the family Niphargidae (Gammaridea), in Iran. (Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 234)

First discovery of the family Tanaostigmatidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from China with a description of a new gall-making species utilizing Kudzu leaves

First discovery of the hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis) in a highland rain forest of eastern Madagascar

First discovery of the ichthyosaur Ophthalmosaurus in the Kimmeridgian of the USSR

First discovery of the male of Zichya tenggerensis Zheng (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)

First discovery of trace fossil Tisoa from the Pliocene Shinzato Formation in Okinawa-jima, Okinawa Prefecture, southwest Japan

First distributional record of three bipaliid species (Plathelminthes , Turbellaria, Tricladida) in Wakayama Prefecture , Honshu, Japan

First do no harm: An analysis of the risk aspects and side effects of clinical holistic medicine compared with standard psychiatric biomedical treatment

First documentation of Connecticut warbler in Texas

First documentation of greater yellowlegs breeding in Ontario

First documentation of similar Late Permian actinopterygian fish from Australia and South Africa

First documented Panama record of spotted rail (Pardirallus maculatus)

First documented banding of a rufous hummingbird in South Carolina

First documented breeding of the Eurasian skylark in Alaska

First documented breeding of the white-breasted nuthatch in western Washington

First documented case of a captive-reared sandpiper breeding in the wild

First documented case of anadromy in a population of introduced rainbow trout in Patagonia, Argentina

First documented cinnamon teal nesting in North Dakota produced hybrids

First documented clutch and brood of six in saker Falcon (Falco cherrug)

First documented findings of Varroa jacobsoni outside its presumed natural range

First documented isolate of Paracoccus yeei in Israel

First documented nesting by the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) along the southwest coast of Florida

First documented nesting for the Nashville warbler in Saskatchewan

First documented nesting of the black butcherbird in Irian Jaya

First documented nesting of the boreal owl south of Canada

First documented nesting record and status of the willow flycatcher in Manitoba

First documented nesting record for American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) for Sullivan County, Pennsylvania

First documented nesting records of hooded merganser in Berks County, PA

First documented occurrence of black-chinned hummingbird in Tennessee

First documented occurrence of the ruff in South Carolina

First documented record and probable nesting of the tropical parula (Parula pitiayumi) in travis county

First documented record of Franklin's gull (Larus pipixcan) in Brazil