Bird Study Journal

A male Goosander – a fish-eating duck – photographed by Edmund Fellowes / BTO

A new paper in @birdstudy.bsky.social demonstrates the potential of GPS tracking to inform understanding of Goosander ecology and their interactions with fish populations, though improvements in attachment methods are needed for longer-term studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Ornithology

A dead Black-headed Gull at a colony in Norfolk, UK, photographed by Dawn Balmer / BTO, and likely a victim of high pathogenicity avian influenza.

22 papers across two issues document the impact of #AvianInfluenza and assess effectiveness of management responses. They show the unprecedented scale of the outbreak, decimating populations across Europe, Africa, North and South America to the South Atlantic.
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