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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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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Trichinella Infected 60% of Golden Jackals and 79% of Red Foxes in Western Romania
A 2026 survey of 134 wild canids in western Romania found Trichinella in 60.4% of golden jackals and…
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A Small Fraction of Wild Boar Showed Disproportionately High Movement and Contact Across Europe
A synthesis of nearly 3.9 million GPS locations from 743 wild boar in 13 European countries found generally…
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Little Egrets, Glossy Ibises and Eurasian Spoonbills Declined in Danube Delta Colonies
Nine of ten colonial waterbird species showed downward trends across five monitored Danube Delta colonies from 2016 to…
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European Rollers Used Grasslands From Breeding Grounds to African Wintering Areas
European rollers from the Carpathian Basin used grasslands in breeding areas, at migration stopovers and especially across their…
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