#Debate needed on the potential culling of crows and foxes to protect Europe’s declining ground-nesting birds

“#Debate needed on the potential culling of crows and foxes to protect Europe’s declining ground-nesting birds” Further studies and debate are needed on the potential culling of generalist predators such as crows and foxes as a means of protecting Europe’s ever declining number of ground-nesting birds, a new study suggests. Researchers at University College Dublin…

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#Study shows birds in Finland breeding earlier and having shorter breeding seasons due to global warming

“#Study shows birds in Finland breeding earlier and having shorter breeding seasons due to global warming” Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from Finland and the U.S. has found that boreal birds in Finland have been starting their breeding seasons earlier and have also been shortening their breeding seasons as temperatures in Finland…

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#Researchers accidentally breed sturddlefish

“#Researchers accidentally breed sturddlefish” Credit: Genes. DOI: 10.3390/genes11070753 A team of researchers working at Hungary’s National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture, has accidentally bred a new kind of fish—dubbed the sturddlefish by some observers, it is a cross between an American Paddlefish and a Russian Sturgeon. In their paper…

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#Bushfires could mean rise in threatened native species

“#Bushfires could mean rise in threatened native species” Sunrise at Trial Bay in NSW during the bushfires. Credit: Trevor McKinnon The damage caused by the catastrophic 2019-2020 Australian bushfires could lead to a dramatic jump in the number of native species at risk, according to new research. James Cook University’s Dr. Stewart Macdonald was part…

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#Restoration of the critically endangered seabird

“#Restoration of the critically endangered seabird” Chinese crested tern. Credit: Dan Roby, OSU The global population of the critically endangered Chinese crested tern has more than doubled thanks to a historic, decade-long collaboration among Oregon State University researchers and scientists and conservationists in China, Taiwan and Japan. The project included OSU’s Dan Roby and Don…

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