Six of Seven GPS-Tracked Great Egrets Returned to the Same Wintering Grounds
Six of seven great egrets tracked across at least two complete winters returned to the same wintering grounds;…
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Farm-Bred Red Foxes Showed Stronger Genetic Erosion Than Isolated Scottish Foxes
Wild Belarusian foxes retained high genetic diversity, Scottish foxes showed moderate depletion, and farm-bred foxes had the smallest…
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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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Ring Recoveries Mapped Two Major African Flyways for Western Palearctic Common Terns
Thousands of ringing recoveries showed western-breeding common terns mainly used the East Atlantic flyway, while central and eastern…
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More Than 80% of Belarus’s Urban Magpie Pairs Were Concentrated in Minsk
A 2026 survey across 31 Belarusian cities estimated 6,000–6,300 urban breeding pairs of eurasian magpies, with more than…
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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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Two PRNP Alleles Had Not Been Reported in Other European Red Deer Populations
A survey of 51 red deer from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus found four PRNP alleles, including two not…
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Female Wood Sandpipers Were Larger, but Body Measurements Reliably Sexed Only About 17% of Birds
Females were larger than males in all measured linear traits, but the sexes overlapped strongly. With thresholds designed…
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