Some Greylag Geese Migrate One Year and Stay the Next
GPS tracking at Lake Neusiedl showed that most of the geese migrated, with winter destinations ranging from Germany…
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A continuing selection of new studies, conservation projects and important developments connected to species in the archive.
Hooded Crows Were Linked to 87 Reported West Nile Virus Bird Outbreaks in Europe
The September ECDC–EFSA report linked hooded crows to 87 reported West Nile virus bird outbreaks, Eurasian magpies to…
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Ravens Waited for Wild Boars Before Approaching Food
Experiments with free-ranging ravens in Austria found that the birds delayed their first approach to food until wild…
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Wild Boar Harvests and Road Collisions Peaked in Years Without Major Beech and Oak Seed Crops
Wild boar hunting bags showed broad two-year fluctuations across parts of Central Europe. In Baden-Württemberg, both the number…
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Forest Disturbance Increased Modelled Habitat Suitability for Four European Herbivores
Tracking data from 3,069 animals showed that forest disturbance generally increased modelled relative habitat suitability for moose, red…
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Common Ravens Responded to Visitor Numbers Rather Than a Fixed Weekend Cycle
Five years of GPS data from free-ranging Common Ravens in Austria showed that daily foraging declined and space…
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Machine Learning Maps the Overlapping Calls of Greylag Geese
Analysis of 6,651 greylag goose calls found both distinct signals and graded overlap—and showed that machine-learning choices can…
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European Honey-buzzards Tracked from Germany Used Flexible Routes to Africa
Satellite tracking of 12 adult European honey-buzzards breeding in Germany documented routes to wintering areas from Liberia and…
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New Respiratory Mycoplasma Species Described From Common Buzzards
Ten previously unclassified Mycoplasma strains, eight from common buzzards, were shown by genomic and phenotypic analyses to represent…
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Golden Jackals Occurred Closer to People Where Wolves Were Common
Across 8,991 survey sites in 13 European countries, wolf presence was the strongest constraint on golden jackal occurrence.…
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Willow Tit’s Three Major Genomic Lineages Closely Matched Its Main Song Types
Whole-genome data from 88 willow tits representing all 14 subspecies revealed three major Palearctic genomic lineages whose broad…
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Thrush Nightingales Crossed Deserts by Flying at Night and Remaining Almost Inactive by Day
Multisensor loggers showed that thrush nightingales crossed the Sahara and Arabian Desert through consecutive nocturnal flights, with daytime…
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GPS Data Show Strong Wind-Turbine Avoidance in Red Kites
Tracking data from hundreds of red kites show very high overall avoidance around wind turbines, while weather and…
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Climate Best Explained Fine-Scale Genetic Connectivity in Expanding Golden Jackals
A Eurasian landscape-genomics study of 363 golden jackals found that geography dominated genetic structure at continental scale, while…
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Fawn Rescue Could Broaden Support for Farmland Conservation
A 2026 perspective argues that public enthusiasm for rescuing roe deer fawns before mowing could be extended to…
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Quiet Contact Calls Carry Stable Individual Signatures in Greylag Geese
A 2026 study found stable individual signatures in greylag goose contact calls, although playback did not confirm stronger…
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Most New Golden Jackal Samples Around the Adriatic Matched the Pannonian Genetic Cluster
Microsatellite analysis of 27 new golden jackal samples from Croatia, Italy, Austria and Greece assigned most animals to…
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First Golden Jackal Genome Placed 98.4% of Its Sequence on Chromosome-Scale Scaffolds
The first golden jackal genome spans 2.53 billion base pairs, with 98.41% of the assembly placed in chromosome-scale…
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Two Models Estimated 13.5–19.6 Million Wild Boar Across Europe’s Core Range
Two independently calibrated models estimated about 13.5 million and 19.6 million wild boar across Europe’s core range before…
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Bone Proportions Can Tell Red Deer, Fallow Deer and Roe Deer Apart When Size Cannot
Measurements of modern skeletons from nine European reference collections showed that bone proportions can distinguish red deer, fallow…
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