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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Chiffchaff Subspecies Followed Different Migration Routes and Diverged Most Strongly at MARB
Tracking and genomic data from Baltic-region common chiffchaffs showed contrasting southwest and southeast migration routes, while the strongest…
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Fieldfare and Song Thrush Confirmed as New Intermediate Hosts of Sarcocystis turdusi
Across 72 dead thrushes from Lithuania and Russia’s Kaliningrad region, DNA confirmed fieldfare and song thrush as new…
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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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Young Tissue Stages of a Blood Parasite in Icterine Warblers Resembled a Different Form
In 22 naturally infected Icterine Warblers from Lithuania, Haemoproteus belopolskyi megalomeronts were confirmed mainly in kidneys and occasionally…
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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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X-rays Found Embedded Shotgun Pellets in 17% of Northwestern European Waterfowl
X-rays of 3,843 waterfowl from nine species in six northwestern European countries found embedded shotgun pellets in 17%…
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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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