SMPnews - Issue 3 - Spring 2025

The spring 2025 issue of SMPnews contains a special feature about our inland colonies of Black-headed Gulls and Common Terns, alongside a small gull ID guide and an in-depth article about seabirds at ...

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Scientific support to the trial of Spoor AI at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre

This report assesses the capability of a Spoor AI camera system with both mono-vision (single-camera) and stereo-vision capabilities for bird monitoring deployed at the European Offshore Wind ...

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Description of the downy chicks of the Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus

The Long-tailed Nightjar Caprimulgus climacurus is fairly common across its wide distribution in west and central Africa, south of the Sahel zone, but until this study, its downy chicks had been ...

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Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure

Migration is a critical component of animal lifecycles, and human development globally is increasingly interfering with animal migration routes. There is not a generally accepted approach to assess ...

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Landscape context influences efficacy of protected areas and agri-environment scheme delivery for breeding waders

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A review of existing methods to collect data on seabird flight height distributions and their use in offshore wind farm impact assessments

This document presents a review of existing methods for collecting seabird flight height data and their potential to produce flight height distributions that might be used in CRMs. The strengths, ...

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European breeding bird declines associated with narrower climatic niches

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