Satellite Count Recorded 15.7% Fewer Elephants Than Aircraft in Botswana
A synchronous Botswana survey counted 816 elephants from aircraft but only 688 visible in 30 cm satellite imagery.…
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A continuing selection of new studies, conservation projects and important developments connected to species in the archive.
Lesser Black-backed Gulls Made Up 73% of Paresis Cases in Lisbon
A ten-year review of gull admissions from Lisbon and Setúbal found that lesser black-backed gulls dominated paresis cases,…
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Video Collars Showed GPS Methods Were Only About 70% Accurate at Detecting Caribou Calving
Video collars from 160 adult females in the Porcupine and Western Arctic herds showed that two GPS movement…
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Weapons-test Fallout Contributed Less to Wild Boar Radiocaesium Than Earlier Estimates Suggested
Bavarian soil measurements and a revised isotope benchmark cut the estimated mean contribution of weapons-test fallout to wild-boar…
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Dry Weather and Snow-Covered Ground Improved Genetic Monitoring From Rock Ptarmigan Droppings
Only 103 of 338 spring fecal samples yielded usable genotypes, but a 2026 study identified field and laboratory…
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Computer Vision Counted Black-headed Gulls in Kunming with 91.6% Average Accuracy
A Kunming system combined a modified YOLOv8 detector with ByteTrack and achieved 91.6% average counting accuracy against manual…
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Great Tit and Eurasian Blue Tit Eggs Contained Different Mixes of PFOS Isomers
Researchers analysed 41 eggs from a contaminated industrial site in Belgium and detected both linear and branched PFAS…
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PIT Tags Were Retained in All Recaptured Slow Worms, While Photo-ID Ranked the Correct Individual First 96% of the Time
A two-year field study in north-eastern France found no PIT-tag loss among 174 recaptured slow worms, while Hotspotter…
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Review of 86 Studies Found Broad Support for Wild Boar as Sentinels of Pathogens and Contaminants
A systematic review of 86 studies found broad support for wild boar as sentinels of pathogens and environmental…
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Ochratoxin A Was Detected in All 54 Wild Boar Examined in Apulia
Ochratoxin A was detected in at least one tissue from every one of 54 wild boar examined in…
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Trail-only Cameras Underrepresented Female Felids and Biased Density Estimates in Bhutan
In Bhutan, trail-only camera traps recorded disproportionately fewer female felids and produced density estimates averaging 22% below a…
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Drone Surveys Produced Similar Nest Survival Estimates to Ground Surveys for Florida Waterbirds
At four Lake Okeechobee colonies in Florida, drone imagery tracked 510 waterbird nests and produced nest survival estimates…
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Artificial Wader Nests Had Lower Survival and Different Predators Than Natural Nests in Estonia
In Estonian coastal grasslands, 77 artificial wader nests had lower survival than 182 natural lapwing and ringed-plover nests,…
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Microplastics Were Found in 77 of 559 Pellets From Eight Italian Bird Species
An Italian study found 78 microplastic items in 77 of 559 bird pellets. Occurrence was significantly higher at…
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Acoustic Recordings Detected Spotted Thick-knees Missed by Simultaneous Visual Counts
Around Lake Tana, ten-minute acoustic recordings detected 47 bird species compared with 31 in simultaneous point counts; spotted…
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DDE Was Detected in All 60 Spanish Birds; Red Kites Had the Highest Medians for Most Pollutants
Liver analyses of 20 white storks, 20 red kites and 20 griffon vultures from Extremadura detected an average…
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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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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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Acoustic Activity Index Tracked Svalbard Rock Ptarmigan Changes Alongside Manual Surveys
An index based on male calling activity during the ten most active April days closely followed year-to-year and…
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Infrared Fingerprints Identified Rock Ptarmigan Food Plant Parts With 96.7% Test Accuracy
Using 296 pure plant fractions from crops of 236 Icelandic rock ptarmigan, an infrared-spectroscopy model identified plant parts…
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