Common Voles Were the Most Frequent Prey of Buzzards in Ojców, but Birds Dominated Biomass
Among 120 prey items identified in the diet of common buzzards in Ojców National Park, common voles accounted…
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Winter Surveys Estimated 5.59 Common Kestrels and 2.61 Common Buzzards per km² in Parma Farmland
Roadside distance sampling in northern Italy estimated 5.59 common kestrels and 2.61 common buzzards per km², while the…
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Garden Route Project Asks Public to Report Colour-ringed Buzzards
A new public reporting campaign asks people across South Africa’s Garden Route to report white colour rings on…
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Prototype Used Tail-feather Microstructure to Classify Ten Raptor Species
A YOLOv8–logistic-regression prototype classified ten raptor species from microscopic tail-feather features with 90% accuracy on its constructed test…
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New Respiratory Mycoplasma Species Described From Common Buzzards
Ten previously unclassified Mycoplasma strains, eight from common buzzards, were shown by genomic and phenotypic analyses to represent…
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Large pines are key osprey nest trees in managed French forest
A French forest study found that osprey overwhelmingly nested in pines and selected especially large trees, supporting retention…
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UK Breeding Bird Survey: Swift Index Fell 70% as Scotland’s Chiffchaff Index Rose 1,443%
The 2025 UK Breeding Bird Survey revealed steep long-term declines, major regional divergences and some striking increases, including…
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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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Indian Raptors Separated Across Forest, Water, Cropland and Human-Dominated Landscapes
Surveys at 445 points across seven Indian localities found distinct raptor associations with water, forest, cropland and human-dominated…
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Berlin Common Buzzards Forage in Courtyards and Breed in Urban Green Islands
Four years of GPS tracking showed juvenile common buzzards in Berlin using small urban foraging hotspots associated with…
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Common Buzzards Had a Lower Modelled Threshold for Rodenticide Poisoning Than Red Kites
Second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides were detected in 88.7% of 159 common buzzards and 94.3% of 263 red kites from…
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