Birds Breeding in Tall Vegetation Increased as Cattail Paludiculture Developed Over Six Years
At a 10-hectare rewetted peat site in north-eastern Germany, breeding pairs that favour tall vegetation increased as cattails…
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Three Warblers in Catalonia Differed in Prey Choice, Prey Size and Use of Aquatic Prey
DNA metabarcoding of 189 diet samples from three warblers in Catalan reedbeds found several forms of dietary separation:…
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Reed Warblers Long Separated From Cuckoos Showed Weaker Host Defences
Field experiments in Finland and Sicily found weak anti-cuckoo defences in common reed warblers living outside regular cuckoo…
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Young and Adult Common Reed Warblers Had Similar Non-Breeding Isotopic Niches
Stable-isotope measurements from feathers found broadly similar and largely overlapping non-breeding resource niches in young and adult common…
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Cattail Paludiculture Had Nearly Three Times the Modelled Bird Abundance of Drained Grassland
In Dutch breeding-season surveys, modelled bird abundance was 30.8 birds per hectare in cattail paludiculture, compared with 10.5…
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Common Grasshopper Warblers and Eurasian Tree Sparrows Declined Sharply at a Portuguese Ringing Station
A 27-year Portuguese ringing study found declines in all five long-distance migrants; common grasshopper warblers now barely occur…
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Reed Warbler Pairs With Similar MHC Immune Genes Were More Likely to Have Extra-Pair Young
Social reed warbler pairs with unusually similar MHC-I immune genes were more likely to have young sired by…
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