No Rain, No Refuge: The Aquatic Warbler’s Breeding Crisis
Europe’s rarest songbird faces an escalating climate crisis. As wetlands dry and breeding efforts falter, conservationists confront the urgent question: can the Aquatic Warbler be saved in a warming world?
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
World Curlew Day: The Long Decline of Curlews, Now Fully Understood
Curlews are not disappearing unnoticed. The causes of their decline are now well understood, yet across flyways and landscapes, recovery remains limited and uneven — raising a harder question about the scale and persistence of our response.
Gyorgy Szimuly
Evolution or Plasticity? What the Hermit Thrush Reveals About Climate Change
Over four decades, a familiar North American songbird has grown smaller. But genomic evidence reveals that not all of these changes are evolutionary – some may simply reflect the remarkable plasticity of living organisms in a warming world.
Gyorgy Szimuly
