We studied willow ptarmigan in a montane landscape in Lierne municipality in central Norway. During the study we captured and marked a total of 272 willow ptarmigan from 2015 to 2021. To capture the birds, we approached them from snowmobiles during the winter night, dazzled them...
I am Marco Basile from the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL located near the vibrant city of Zurich, where I live. I recently joined the editorial team at Wildlife Biology. I always enjoyed reading this journal as I am an animal ecologist with a strong interest in bird-...
The editor’s choice is the article by Hagen et al. “Dead birds flying”: Can North American rehabilitated raptors released into the wild mitigate anthropogenic mortality? ” Conservation practice is full of untested paradigms, and wildlife rehabilitation is one of them. Rescuing,...
The editor’s choice is the article by Bison et al.: “ Camera traps reveal seasonal variation in activity and occupancy of the Alpine mountain hare ( Lepus timidus varronis ) ” Even in densely populated and well-studied regions, some elusive species have largely escaped...
I graduated at the University of Firenze in Wildlife Management, with a dissertation about the monitoring of invasive cottontail populations in Italy. Then I had my PhD and worked for a few years as a postdoc about the human dimensions of wildlife, and the use of questionnaires to monitor attitudes...