Highlights•Coloniality favours the occurrence of mixed kinship broods.•Competition for food
should differ between siblings and unrelated offspring.•We tested this prediction in mixed …

Traditional livestock systems have supported farmland biodiversity for millennia. However,
modern intensive husbandry is challenging wildlife persistence in agroecosystems. We …

Describing patterns in activity and behaviour of animals as they move through their
environment helps to reveal fundamental aspects of their ecology and identify key habitat …

Increasing temperatures due to climate warming may expose many species to thermally
dangerous conditions, especially during less mobile phases of their life cycle when the …

Spatial segregation of foraging areas among conspecifics breeding in neighbouring
colonies has been observed in several colonial vertebrates and is assumed to originate from …

Co-occurrence of ecologically similar species can lead to direct agonistic interactions,
including kleptoparasitism, where one individual consumes trophic resources acquired by …

Abstract The Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni, Fleischer, 1818) strongly attached to agro-
environmental landscapes, showing high preferences towards extensively managed wheat …

Il cleptoparassitismo è una forma di competizione, intra o interspecifica, che si riferisce al
furto di cibo da parte di un individuo (cleptoparassita) ai danni di un altro (vittima). Le specie …

I cambiamenti climatici e le modificazioni nell'uso del suolo sono i principali responsabili
delle variazioni nella distribuzione di molte specie animali e delle modifiche agli habitat …

Use of Alfalfa crops in different parts of the year from the Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis in an
area of the low Po Plain in Mantua (Lombardy, northern Italy). From the middle of June 2021 …