Road counts over 16 years revealed declines in populations of birds of prey in South Africa.
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The return of an apex predator has all sorts of positive effects throughout an ecosystem.
It’s a question of evolution and adaptation.
The welfare of wild animals is severely compromised to sustain grouse shooting in Scotland.
New fossils reveal Australia was once home to a much greater diversity of huge eagles and vultures, which died off alongside ‘giant wombats’ and ‘marsupial lions’.
There’s shocking new evidence of rodenticide poisoning in Australia’s nocturnal predatory birds. High concentrations of the active ingredients were found in 92% of the 60 dead birds they tested.
Lockdown wasn’t good news for London’s peregrine falcons.
False alarms are common in prey animals, but what causes them and how can they be avoided?
DDT accumulates in wildlife and magnifies up the food chain. Birds of prey occupy the top of these food chains in various ecosystems.
New research traces the effect of drought on red kite chicks born during particularly dry years.
The identification of a vulture that lived more than 50,000 years ago is shedding more light on biodiversity loss and ecosystem change in Australia.
It’s a clash that might rival Crocodile Dundee in New York City. While both iconic birds of prey are similarly sized, one is bolder and more ferocious.
The NSW government has secured an extremely toxic bait to try to end the mouse plague. But there are safer alternatives.
Scientists have discovered how the wise old barn owl is so good at catching rodents.
A new study claims that wind turbines kill enough birds of prey that they are effectively an ‘apex predator’.
Biodiversity is known to suffer in human-altered agricultural areas. But the Verreaux Eagle is an exception and has seen its numbers increase in agricultural land..
Across the open heather moors of upland Britain, last-minute preparations are being put in place for the start of the red grouse shooting season on August 12. On average about 200,000 grouse are shot every…
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