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Special Topic: Bird Damage

Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2020
This is the call for papers for the special issue on bird damage.
Jessica Tegt
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The Role of Birds of the Family Corvidae in Transmitting Sarcocystis Protozoan Parasites

Animals, 2021
Members of the family Corvidae are ecologically flexible omnivorous birds, particularly adaptive to urban habitats, and living in proximity to humans; these birds may serve as definitive hosts (DH) for Sarcocystis spp., but research about this is lacking.
Evelina Juozaitytė-Ngugu, Saulius Švažas, Donatas Šneideris, Eglė Rudaitytė-Lukošienė, Dalius Butkauskas, Petras Prakas   +5 more
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Corvids exhibit dynamic risk assessment during escape [PDF]

Behavioural Processes, 2020
It is widely accepted that stationary prey are able to carefully assess the risk levels associated with an approaching predator to make informative decisions on when to escape. However, little is known about subsequent decision-making process. We set out to compare whether escape durations of three species of corvids differ depending on how a human ...
Kunter, Tätte, Anders Pape, Møller, Raivo, Mänd   +2 more
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Benefit or ecological trap? Monitoring the effects of small clear‐cuts on capercaillie Tetrao urogallus and its mammalian predators

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The shift to ‘close to nature forestry' as the dominating forestry regime in western‐European forests has resulted in increasing timber volume and denser forests with negative effects on photophilic species. Hence, there is an increasing focus on active habitat management measures to support these species.
Maria Kochs, Joy Coppes, Tanja Beutel, Gabriel Holz, Jim‐Lino Kämmerle, Michael Kraft, Veronika Braunisch   +6 more
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Both forest cover and land management practices explain variation in recovering pine marten densities

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Robust monitoring of wildlife populations to guide interventions is fundamental to conservation and wildlife management. Understanding how landscape characteristics are influencing predator population dynamics is often vital to inform recovery strategies, management, and policy. The pine marten Martes martes is recovering in the UK; however, population
Keziah J. Hobson, Chris Sutherland, Cristian Navarro Waggershauser, Deborah A. Dawson, Gavin J. Horsburgh, Lucy S. Knowles, Xavier Lambin   +6 more
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A bird's eye view: using geographic analysis to evaluate the representativeness of corvid indicators for West Nile virus surveillance [PDF]

, 2007
Background The objective of this evaluation was to determine whether reports of dead corvid sightings and submissions of dead corvids for West Nile virus testing were representative of true corvid mortality in British Columbia in 2004, a year with no ...
Samara T David, Sunny Mak, Laura MacDougall, Murray Fyfe   +3 more
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Social information about others' affective states in a human‐altered world

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Faced with anthropogenic change, animals now encounter challenges different from their evolutionary past. To cope with such challenges, animals may use social information about others' affective states to guide their decisions. Considering affective states of wild animals could have important implications for animal welfare and wildlife conservation ...
Luca G. Hahn, Jordan McDowall, Margaux Vanhussel, Mike Mendl, Alex Thornton   +4 more
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Provision of supplementary food for wild birds may increase the risk of local nest predation [PDF]

, 2017
In countries such as the UK, USA and Australia, approximately half of households provide supplementary food for wild birds, making this the public’s most common form of active engagement with nature.
Antonov, Baker, Bates, Bland, Bonnington, Bonnington, Bonnington, Borgmann, Bradley, Brittingham, Buler, Burke, Burnham, Chace, Chamberlain, Chamberlain, Cooper, Courter, Davies, Eaton, Fuller, Gaston, Gregory, Harrison, Hill, Jansson, Jokimaki, Jokimäki, Kurucz, Kurucz, Loram, Madden, Major, Martin, Marzluff, Marzluff, Marzluff, McKinney, Miller, Moore, Murray, Máthé, Orros, Orros, Orros, Orros, Orros, Peach, Plummer, Plummer, Plummer, R Core Team, Rangen, Ricklefs, Robb, Robinson, Robinson, Rolshausen, RSPB, Selva, Shaffer, Shochat, Smith, Smith, Soh, Sorace, Swanson, Therneau, Thomas, Thomas, Thorington, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Väisänen   +72 more
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Unraveling Occurrence Patterns and Diversity of Avian Malaria Parasites in Iberian Obligate and Facultative Scavenger Birds

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Low overall haemosporidian occurrence (3.4%; 13/383). Unexpected high lineage diversity (10 new host–parasite interactions). Novel Leucocytozoon lineage (GYPBAR01) in all European vultures except the griffon vulture. Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1) in adult red kites.
Pilar Oliva‐Vidal, Jaime Muriel, Alfonso Marzal, Grethell Mabel López del Aguila, José María Martínez, Antoni Margalida   +5 more
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Managing the Threat of Subsidized Predators for a Threatened Shorebird

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Subsidized predators—native predators that have become more common due to human activities—challenge the persistence of many at‐risk prey species and require creative solutions beyond lethal predator control. In an 8‐year study, we placed small wire cages over western snowy plover nests that allow passage of plovers, but not their predators, and ...
R. R. Swaisgood, R. L. Smith, J. G. Schuetz, T. Wooten, L. I. Vilchis   +4 more
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