2025 March - 14 articles
Despite increasing conservation efforts for shorebirds, there are widespread declines in many shorebird species in North America. Climate change is causing significant shorebird range shifts and population declines. This study investigates the relati...
Anthropogenic structures such as overhead powerlines pose potentially high collision risks to flying animals, particularly birds, leading to millions of fatalities each year. Studies of bird collisions with powerlines to date, however, have estimated...
Many birds regard partitioning feeding and breeding resources as a strategy to escape competition and co-occurring breeding species. During the breeding season, breeding requirements are essential, yet the patterns and drivers of segregation between...
Several researchers have tried to find relationships between acoustic indices and vocal animal communities to use acoustic indices as a passive monitoring method, as human-derived surveys are expensive, time-consuming, and suffer from observer bias....
The global crisis of plastic pollution, particularly involving microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs), has profound ecological implications. Birds, serving as bioindicators, are especially susceptible to these pollutants. This systematic review s...
Thresholds can be an effective tool in conservation planning, as they can form a defensible target for habitat conservation or restoration. Generalized thresholds must be used with caution, however, as threshold responses may vary with species and sp...
Urbanization has drastically transformed natural landscapes, threatening biodiversity by reducing species richness and abundance in cities. In this context, seasonal streams serve as refuge areas for various bird species. To determine the role of sea...
The retinal structure is generally conserved across vertebrates; however, variations occur due to the relationship between environmental factors and visual perception. Birds have adapted to diverse ecological contexts, evolving specialized visual cha...
Timing and spatial distribution patterns of migratory birds are crucial for their conservation, particularly in Greece, which serves as a vital migratory corridor between Europe, Asia, and Africa. Traditional monitoring methods face challenges due to...
Bird streamer faults occur when the streamer, i.e., bird excretion, bridges the gap between two energized components or an energized and an earthed component of a tower structure. This results in a short circuit, which may be accompanied by an outage...
The ratio of the innate heterophils to the acquired lymphocytes (the H/L-ratio) has been advocated as a good indicator of physiological stress. Little is known, however, about their development in wild birds. The present study investigates how leucoc...
Coxiella burnetii is a highly infectious zoonotic pathogenic bacterium that has a major economic impact in the livestock industry throughout the world and causes unpredictable outbreaks in humans worldwide. Although it is known that birds are potenti...
Western Amazonia hosts the highest bird diversity in the world, yet in many regional indigenous territories, biodiversity remains poorly known to science. Between 2004 and 2020, we conducted research with members of 10 indigenous Aguaruna communities...
We conducted a helicopter survey in 2010 for cliff-nesting raptors along the Dalton Highway in northern Alaska. The study area extended from the Yukon River northward ~395 km through the Brooks Range to the Arctic Plain. We documented 55 occupied rap...
