Anthropogenic changes have strongly influenced the European landscape. In the last 50
years electric power-line networks have become a conspicuous part of that landscape. From …

Nest site selection is a vital component of bird reproduction success, and an adaptive
behavior conducted to decrease nest predation risk with avoiding external disturbances …

Human-induced environmental changes are the main drivers of the ongoing redistribution of
biodiversity. The millions of tons of organic waste that is added daily to landfills can increase …

Anthropogenic structures are mainly known to have negative impacts on wildlife populations
but they can be beneficial. Power lines are a main driver of bird mortality through collision or …

The timing of bird migration has shifted in response to climate change. However, few studies
have linked the potential consequences of any phenological shift on individual fitness and …

Variation in nest concealment is puzzling given the expected strong selection for safe nest
sites. Selecting a concealed nest may decrease the risk of clutch predation but hinder …

During the last decades, landfills have become a valuable food source for wildlife, being in
some cases determinants of large avian population increases. Superabundant food …

Nest size and nest building behaviour affect individual fitness and thus, selection may act on
these traits. Most data on nesting behaviour come from species that build a nest for each …

It has long been suggested that habitat structure affects how colonial birds are distributed
within their nesting aggregations, but this hypothesis has never been formally tested. The …

Capsule An increase in new nest building in a white stork population revealed that they
were built further from human settlement and on non-typical structures; such nests had lower …