Long-tailed Tits and Common Firecrests Were Detected More Often Where More Time Had Passed Since Fire
Passive acoustic monitoring in northern Greece found long-tailed tits and common firecrests more likely to be detected in…
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A 120,000-year-old Fallow Deer Population Matched the Mitochondrial Diversity of the Modern Range
Ten mitochondrial genomes from roughly 120,000-year-old fallow deer in Germany showed that one ancient local population held about…
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Young Shikras Can Be Separated From Levant Sparrowhawks by Iris, Undertail and Wing Structure
An analysis of images of 75 first-calendar-year shikras and 93 levant sparrowhawks found useful differences in iris colour,…
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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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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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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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Earlier-Fledged Juvenile Kingfishers Migrated Farther and Followed Region-Specific Routes
A 2026 study of juvenile common kingfishers from Czech and Slovak populations found that earlier-fledged birds migrated farther,…
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Toxoplasma gondii DNA Was Detected in 14% of Magpies in Greece
A 2026 molecular survey in Greece detected Toxoplasma gondii DNA in 14 of 100 Eurasian magpies, providing the…
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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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Intermediate-Coloured Buzzards Increased Across Europe as Dark and Light Extremes Declined
A dataset of 99,343 citizen-science observations revealed strong geographic structure in common buzzard plumage across Europe; after pre-2000…
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Three Migratory Warblers Showed Distinct Wing Shapes on Antikythera
Measurements of 117 warblers on Antikythera showed distinct wing shapes in garden warbler, Eurasian blackcap and common whitethroat,…
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Wild Boar Habitat and Pig-Farm Clusters Overlapped in Priority ASF Surveillance Zones in Northern Greece
In northern Greece, 99 of 665 pig farms lay in high-priority zones where suitable wild boar habitat overlapped…
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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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Modelled Rose-ringed Parakeet Abundance in Surveyed Thessaloniki Grids Rose by 64%
Repeated surveys of 99 one-square-kilometre grids in Thessaloniki estimated that rose-ringed parakeet abundance within the surveyed area increased…
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