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Weekly birding round-up: 11 - 17 Jul . Jon Dunn brings you his weekly birding roundup, looking back at the best birds from around Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic headlined by a Soft-plumaged Petrel. Read it here.
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Instinct Meets Experience: Learning Danger Calls in the Reedbed. Chicks of the Oriental Reed Warbler show a remarkable ability to associate unfamiliar sounds with predator risk.
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Chicks of the Oriental Reed Warbler show a remarkable ability to associate unfamiliar sounds with predator risk
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Designing for Instagram, Not Ecology: Urban Parks Ignore Birds' Basic Needs.
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Flashy landscaping and manicured lawns may be silencing birdlife across Asia’s fast-growing cities
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Tracking Without Harm?. What impact does fitting tracking devices have on small shorebirds? .
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A field-test of mini GPS and satellite devices on New Zealand’s Banded Dotterels finds that small tracking devices can be safely used without measurable impacts on behaviour, breeding, or survival
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RT @shetlandnature: Shore birds, are the obvious focus for any hope of finding a good bird in the isles in July- that or Two-barred Crossbi….
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Great-tailed Grackle added to Category E of the British List.
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Weekly birding round-up: 4 - 10 Jul. Jon Dunn brings you his weekly birding roundup, looking back at the best birds from around Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic headlined by a Greater Sand Plover. Read it here
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A graveyard for birds in northern Spain.New research shows eucalyptus plantations are decimating bird diversity in the Basque Country's once-rich forests
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New research shows eucalyptus plantations are decimating bird diversity in the Basque Country’s once-rich forests.
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When technology undermines survival - The hidden toll of backpack tags on migratory geese .
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New research using GPS tracking at Poyang Lake uncovers survival risks, from tag design to wind speeds, that shape the fate of released geese.
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Only one Swallow - But sweeping claims?. Can a single geolocator justify bold conclusions about an entire migratory subspecies?
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Can a single geolocator justify bold conclusions about an entire migratory subspecies?.
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Tourism on the back of the dead - Should carcasses be left to rot for the benefit of birders? .
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Tracking technology and tourist surveys offer a new path for sustainable vulture-watching away from artificial feeding stations.
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Hornbills caught in the act: A surprising aerial assault on bats in Borneo .New field observations reveal Bushy-crested Hornbills in Malaysia actively hunting flying bats in a manner previously undocumented for the species.
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New field observations reveal Bushy-crested Hornbills in Malaysia actively hunting flying bats in a manner previously undocumented for the species
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Three gulls and an island. On Scotland's Isle of May new research reveals how Lesser Black-backed, Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls divide their feeding grounds
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On Scotland’s Isle of May new research reveals how Lesser Black-backed, Herring and Great Black-backed Gulls divide their feeding grounds.
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Weekly birding round-up: 27 Jun - 3 Jul . @dunnjons Dunn brings you his weekly birding roundup looking back at the best birds from around Britain, Ireland and the Western Palearctic. Read it here
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Conservation's Blind Spot: The Wintering Grounds
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GPS tracking of Eurasian Stone-curlews from western France reveals complex, varied migratory strategies and raises fresh conservation concerns about wintering habitat change
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Akritas Cape: Greece’s Hidden Gateway for Soaring Raptors. A major migration corridor for European Honey Buzzards has been discovered in southern Greece, challenging long-standing assumptions about Mediterranean flyways
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A major migration corridor for European Honey Buzzards has been discovered in southern Greece, challenging long-standing assumptions about Mediterranean flyways
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RT @RareBirdAlertUK: ‼️ BirdAlertPRO now has bird sounds . Update or Download today for a 30-day free trial .https:….
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Cuckoo Outsmarts Bushchat Using Its Own Alarm Calls . New research reveals how the Common Cuckoo exploits the very behaviour meant to repel it - using the Gray Bushchat's alarm calls to find hidden nests.
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New research reveals how the Common Cuckoo exploits the very behaviour meant to repel it - using the Gray Bushchat’'s alarm calls to find hidden nests
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Owl Pellets Reveal Elusive Marsupial's Strongholds. Through owl pellets, a vanishing marsupial species comes into clearer focus after decades of conservation obscurity.
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Through owl pellets, a vanishing marsupial species comes into clearer focus after decades of conservation obscurity
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