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Current sanitarian regulations are not enough for avian scavengers' conservation
A scientific team has studied how the use of human-origin food resources, such as landfills and intensive livestock farms, by Eurasian griffon vultures can negatively impact their conservation. ...
Seagulls act as vectors of metals and arsenic between landfills and protected wetlands
Researchers from the Doñana Biological Station assessed the spatial variation in concentrations of ten metals in faeces of the lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) wintering at seven localities...
The functional connectivity network of wintering gulls links seven habitat types, acting ricefields as the central node
The lesser black-backed gull is now the second most abundant wintering waterbird in Andalusian wetlands. Many birds are fitted with GPS loggers on their breeding grounds in northern Europe, and...
From landfills to lakes: gulls as transporters of nutrients
The lesser black backed gull Larus fuscus is now the second most abundant wintering waterbird in Andalusia, and has increased in numbers in recent years. Fuente de Piedra, the biggest shallow lake...