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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
These species mostly fly under 1,300 meters so the flight altitudes overlapped the legal flight altitude limit set for general aviation, which is 900 meters.

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
The plants that parrots eat don’t have specialized structures for epizoochory, but their seeds could disperse long distances

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 taxonomically controversial Corsican grasshopper (Chorthippus corsicus).

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)