Scientists from the University of the Basque Country and the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has studied a colony of bent-winged bat in the southern Iberian Peninsula. This colony of bats can eliminate up to 60,000 of processionary moths every night during August and September

Birds of prey have been, in comparison to other avian groups, an uncommon study model. Nonetheless, they have attracted a strong interest from the point of view of conservation biology because many populations have been close to extinction and because of their recognised role in ecosystems as top predators and scavengers and as flagship species. On this basis, and from a preferentially Mediterranean perspective, attention is focused on the need of describing and quantifying the role of these...