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...
By Ales Vorel On April 23, 2024 our team ( Czech University of Life Sciences from Prague ), which conducts telemetry research on wolves in the České Švýcarsko National Park as part of the Interreg Redema project, received information about the hunting of roe deer by at least two...
By Falko Brieger In Germany, the high risk of wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVC) is increasing due to increasing traffic volumes and road densities as well as the growing population densities of common ungulate species. To prevent WVC, wildlife fencing is a common tool in Germany...
An artificial nestbox installed to monitor and mitigate impacts to hazel dormice ( Muscardinus avellanarius ) and two hazel dormice (inset) found during one of our monitoring surveys (photo credits Clara Prieto and Joe Malyan). Hazel dormice are one of the UK’s rarest mammal...
Dusky grouse. Photo by Ken Archer. Guest Editors: Christian Hagen, Lance McNew and Emmanuel Menoni. Rationale: Grouse are ecologically significant species found in various forested habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Efficient and unbiased methods for monitoring these...
My name is Manisha Bhardwaj and I am a wildlife ecologist, motivated to identify and mitigate the impacts of the built environment and human activity on wildlife. At present, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg, where I am exploring the influence of...
Photo 1. Photo by Caryl Buton. Trapdoors (in the front) or ramps (in the rear) and other escape devices are used to allow wild ungulates to exit fenced motorway or railway rights of way. By Caryl Buton, Nicolas Kaldonski, François Nowicki and Christine Saint-Andrieux The...
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