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Use of avian GPS tracking to mitigate human fatalities from bird strikes caused by large soaring birds
A research team from the Doñana Biological Station-CSIC and the Miguel Hernández University tracked griffon and cinereous vultures and white storks to study their flight patterns
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A new citizen science project to assess the wildlife road mortality in Spain
? SAFE is a citizen science project aiming to quantify the number of animals killed in roads every year, determine which species are most affected and detect the factors affecting this problem
A research study explores the role of parrots in the dispersal of seeds that get attached to their beaks and feathers
The Doñana Biological Station, along with other institutions, has recorded epizoochory events (seed dispersal via transportation on the outside of animals), involving 116 parrot species
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Microevolutionary and demographic consequences of an evolutionary transition to flightlessness
. A new study developed at Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) has employed genomic data to infer the consequences of dispersal-related trait variation in short-winged and long-winged forms of the...
Exotic tree plantations as alternative breeding habitat for an endemic avian predator
The Doñana Biological Station has explored the suitability of exotic tree plantations as breeding habitat for an island endemic raptor, the Macaronesian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus granti)
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