Not So Solitary: Female Ruffs Cluster Nests Around Leks and Neighbours
The spectacular male display is the visible centre of a breeding system shaped just as strongly by female choice. © Sergey Volkov
Ecology and Behaviour

Not So Solitary: Female Ruffs Cluster Nests Around Leks and Neighbours

Female Ruffs reveal a hidden social strategy: new research shows their nests cluster around leks and neighbours, reshaping how we understand habitat selection in this declining wader.

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Peregrine Falcon Downlisting Debate Exposes a Flawed Conservation Cycle
A proposal to ease international trade restrictions on the Peregrine Falcon has triggered warnings that conservation gains could be undermined just as the species recovers. © Attila Szilágyi

Peregrine Falcon Downlisting Debate Exposes a Flawed Conservation Cycle

Peregrine Falcon CITES Downlisting 7Dec250:00/194.664489795918371× The proposal to downlist the Peregrine Falcon from Appendix I to Appendix II under CITES has prompted a wave of concern among raptor specialists, who warn that the move risks destabilising one of conservation’s most expensive recovery stories. The issue, highlighted in The Parliament Magazine, underscores a broader problem in international wildlife governance: the assumption that population recovery is equivalent to lo
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