Ringed Pied Avocet Set a UK Longevity Record at 36 Years
A Pied Avocet ringed as a nestling at Titchwell Marsh on 2 July 1990 was identified alive at…
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Fungal Communities Differed Across Pied Avocet Breeding Substrates
Around ten Pied Avocet nest sites in China's Yellow River Delta, researchers detected 9,980 fungal DNA variants but…
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Female Pied Avocets Migrated Farther Than Males
The standardized migration-distance measure averaged 1,928 kilometres for GPS-tracked female pied avocets and 1,277 for males; females also…
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Pied avocet calls became a test for counting birds by sound
BioDCASE 2026 made pied avocet an optional target for estimating known aviary populations from hundreds of thousands of…
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Artificial Islands Became Poland’s Only Permanent Pied Avocet Breeding Site
Two dredged-sediment islands held 85 breeding pied avocet pairs in 2025, but rapid vegetation growth could close the…
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Camargue Pied Avocet Count Fell From Nearly 3,300 to Below 1,000 After High Water
Tour du Valat linked the January fall to waders leaving marshes and lagoons with very high water levels.…
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Avocet nest habitats held distinct bacterial communities
Forty samples around ten pied avocet nests revealed sharply different bacterial communities, but the observational study could not…
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Restored Wetland Attracted Avocets but Few Nests Succeeded
Only 6.9% of monitored pied avocet nests and 20.3% of black-winged stilt nests succeeded in a restored Yangtze…
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Older Pied Avocets Used More Varied Movement Strategies Than Young Birds
Satellite tracking in China found that adult pied avocets used more varied routes and ranged farther within seasons…
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Artificial Wetlands Dominated the Winter Home Ranges of Four Tracked Pied Avocets
Four pied avocets returned to the same Chinese wintering areas for two consecutive years, and rice paddies and…
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Novel Picornavirus from a Pied Avocet May Represent a New Genus
Genome sequencing identified a highly divergent picornavirus in one pied avocet from Hungary, but the virus’s health effects…
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Breeding Pied Avocets Continued to Decline in the Wadden Sea
A trilateral report classified the Wadden Sea breeding trend as a moderate decline for both 1991–2023 and the…
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Shorebirds at Marker Wadden Preferred Saturated Mud and Water Up to 5 cm Deep
At Marker Wadden, pied avocets, common snipes, ruffs and common ringed plovers were analysed as one pooled group,…
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More Than 500 Pied Avocets Used New Marker Wadden Mudflats, but the Annual Maximum Fell Below 100
At Marker Wadden in Lake Markermeer, more than 500 pied avocets used newly created freshwater mudflats early in…
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