Guardians of the Sand – Protecting the Egyptian Plover Along the Niger River
A look into one of West Africa’s least known yet most striking shorebirds – and the local-led conservation efforts keeping it off the brink.
A Generation Restored: How Griffon Vultures Thrived Four Decades After Reintroduction
Four decades of monitoring show that Griffon Vultures in the Grands Causses maintain exceptionally high survival, revealing why this reintroduction became one of Europe’s most successful raptor recoveries.
Gyorgy Szimuly
Sound-based surveys uncover fine-scale habitat selection in the declining Crested Tit
New research from Finland suggests that Crested Tits respond more to fine-scale forest structure than to forest age in early spring, challenging assumptions about how habitat quality is defined in managed boreal forests.
Gyorgy Szimuly
Cormorants: Evolutionary Failure or Underwater Mastermind?
Cormorants are often labelled evolutionary misfits for having partially wettable feathers – hardly ideal for a diving bird. Their design is far from flawed. It is a finely tuned adaptation that reveals an unexpected path in the evolution of underwater hunting.
Gyorgy Szimuly