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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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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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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Fifteen of 39 Pole-mounted Nest Boxes Were Used by Kestrels in Latvia in 2025
In Latvia in 2025, kestrels used 15 of 39 nest boxes on electricity poles; occupied pole boxes had…
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Willow Tits Used Mobbing-Like Calls When Approaching Visually Obstructed Feeders
A 2026 experiment with 44 willow tits in 11 winter flocks found mobbing-like call features during approaches to…
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Body Reserves Predicted Apparent Survival During a Greenfinch Trichomonosis Outbreak
A study of 894 marked greenfinches found that higher body reserves strongly predicted apparent survival during a trichomonosis…
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Only 4.5% of Latvian Starlings Were Assigned to Long-Distance Moult Migration
Stable isotopes in feathers from 291 Latvian-breeding common starlings indicated that 86.2% moulted in the Baltic region, while…
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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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