The nominal subspecies of the Black Kite is a summer resident in Europe and Asia that
winters mostly in western Africa, although numbers of birds wintering in the Mediterranean …

Technological innovations have led to exciting fast-moving developments in science. Today,
we are living in a technology-driven era of biological discovery. Consequently, tracking …

Internal factors such as experience (eg age) and motivation for breeding, and external ones
such as environmental conditions (eg meteorology and landscape characteristics) can …

Despite the wealth of data available from satellite tracking (ST) studies, such data have
rarely been used to model species distributions. Using a novel method, we show how to …

Red Kite shows a great variability in its migration strategies: most individuals in north-
eastern Europe are migrants, but there is also a growing number of sedentary individuals …

Recent improvements in satellite tracking, such as the miniaturization of transmitters, have
enabled the study of movements of an increasing number of bird species. The Lesser …

To develop effective conservation strategies for migratory birds, it is essential to understand
the ecology of a species at each biological phase, including its wintering (or non-breeding) …

Conservation of migratory species faces the challenge of understanding the ecological
requirements of individuals living in two geographically separated regions. In some cases …

Aim This report summarises the results of a review of the conservation status of the 36
species of birds of prey that are considered to breed in North Africa according to the IUCN …

Background The low prevalence of blood parasites in some bird species may be related to
the habitats they frequent, the inexistence of the right host-parasite assemblage or the …