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Stopover Ecology in Motion: GPS Insights into Pied Avocet Migration
A Pied Avocet pauses mid-journey at a coastal stopover – part of a slow, flexible migration strategy that can stretch across months and multiple estuaries. © Avijit Ghorai

Stopover Ecology in Motion: GPS Insights into Pied Avocet Migration

Not all shorebirds dash south in a single push. The Pied Avocet has turned migration into a months-long, estuary-hopping journey – a strategy that reshapes how we think about flyway connectivity.


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Engineering Elegance: The Paradise Riflebird As Nature’s Most Theatrical Engineer
A male Victoria’s Riflebird in full theatrical flair, arching his jet-black wings and iridescent breast shield as he engineers a multisensory courtship spectacle – each gesture finely tuned by evolution to captivate the discerning female. This species shares the same extraordinary display mechanics described in recent Paradise Riflebird research. © Paul Maury 

Engineering Elegance: The Paradise Riflebird As Nature’s Most Theatrical Engineer

With a wave of his wings and the snap of a feather, the Paradise Riflebird transforms the rainforest floor into a stage. Recent research reveals that this avian dancer doesn’t just display beauty – it performs biomechanics at its evolutionary peak.


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From Kruger to Xinjiang: Tracking the European Roller’s Epic Journey
This gorgeous adult from Spain represents the nominate C. g. garrulus subspecies of the European Roller. Unlike the eastern semenowi subspecies, it appears to favour closer non-breeding grounds in East Africa. © Alfonso Guío Rodríguez

From Kruger to Xinjiang: Tracking the European Roller’s Epic Journey

As transmitters map their routes, the migration of the European Roller reveals a story of hidden connections and unexpected journeys.


Gyorgy Szimuly

Gyorgy Szimuly

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Wings of the Amazon: The Macaw Society’s Living Chronicle
This Red-and-green Macaw is part of a decades-long research effort to secure the future of macaws in Peru’s lowland rainforests. © Caio Brito

Wings of the Amazon: The Macaw Society’s Living Chronicle

In the treetops of Peru’s Amazon, The Macaw Society is documenting the fragile lives of Red-and-green and Scarlet Macaws—revealing how long-term research, community partnerships, and quiet persistence protect the rainforest’s most vivid sentinels.


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Wings of the Amazon: The Macaw Society’s Living Chronicle
This Red-and-green Macaw is part of a decades-long research effort to secure the future of macaws in Peru’s lowland rainforests. © Caio Brito

Wings of the Amazon: The Macaw Society’s Living Chronicle

In the treetops of Peru’s Amazon, The Macaw Society is documenting the fragile lives of Red-and-green and Scarlet Macaws—revealing how long-term research, community partnerships, and quiet persistence protect the rainforest’s most vivid sentinels.


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