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BASC monitors scientific journals, environmental, policy and political alerts for the results of studies of relevance to shooting and conservation. Below are links to a selection of papers published in January – February 2024.
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Birds
- Migration mortality in birds
- Adaptive capacity in the multi-level management system of migratory waterbirds: a case study of participatory goose management in Sweden
- Citizen science data confirm that expanding non-breeding distributions of goose and swan species correlate with their increasing abundance
- Selection of a diversionary field and other habitats by large grazing birds in a landscape managed for agriculture and wetland biodiversity
- Avian responses to climate extremes: insights into abundance curves and species sensitivity using the UK Breeding Bird Survey
- Assessing the risk of the entry of avian influenza through bird migration to Ireland
- Genetic Analysis of H5N1 High-Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus following a Mass Mortality Event in Wild Geese on the Solway Firth
- Transmission dynamics and pathogenesis differ between pheasants and partridges infected with clade 2.3.4.4b H5N8 and H5N1 high-pathogenicity avian influenza viruses
- Seasonal Variation in First Territory Settlement of Dispersing Golden Eagles: An Innate Behaviour?
Mammals
Land management
- Winter game crop plots for gamebirds retain hedgerow breeding songbirds in an improved grassland landscape
- Understanding stakeholder perceptions on the impacts of gamebird releasing on or near UK protected sites
- How to recognise a healthy forest: Perspectives from private forest managers in Britain
- Solar parks can enhance bird diversity in agricultural landscape
- Crop phenology reshapes the food-safety landscape for roe deer in an agroecosystem
- Quantifying the natural flood management potential of leaky dams in upland catchments, Part I: A data-based modelling approach
- Quantifying the natural flood management potential of leaky dams in upland catchments, Part II: Leaky dam impacts on flood peak magnitude
Other topics
- Do people who experience more nature act more to protect it? A meta-analysis
- UK flockdown: A survey of smallscale poultry keepers and their understanding of governmental guidance on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)
- Optimisation of Open-habitat Bird Surveys – a report to the Forestry Commission
- Exploring perceptions of and attitudes towards bluetongue disease: A multi-stakeholder interview study in the beef and sheep farming sector in Ireland
- Exploring the population dynamics of waterfowl hunters using a mark-recapture approach
- Parasite exchange and hybridisation at a wild-feral-domestic interface
- The Perspectives of Key Stakeholders on the Reintroduction of Apex Predators to the United Kingdom