The ubiquity of neonicotinoid contamination: Residues in seabirds with different trophic habits

GG Distefano, R Zangrando, M Basso, L Panzarin… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Neonicotinoids are one of the most diffusely used classes of pesticides whose level of
danger toward non-target invertebrate and vertebrate species has raised increasing concern …

Assessing the exposure to human and veterinary pharmaceuticals in waterbirds: The use of feathers for monitoring antidepressants and nonsteroidal anti …

GG Distefano, R Zangrando, M Basso… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from both human and veterinary
sources is an increasing threat to wildlife welfare and conservation. Notwithstanding …

Avoidance of offshore wind farms by Sandwich Terns increases with turbine density

RSA van Bemmelen, JJ Leemans… - Ornithological …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The expanding use of wind farms as a source of renewable energy can impact bird
populations due to collisions and other factors. Globally, seabirds are one of the avian …

Occurrence of rare earth elements in fledgelings of Thalasseus sandvicensis

M Picone, GG Distefano, F Corami, P Franzoi… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are increasingly exploited for crucial new
technologies, and their massive use in the past decades has significantly increased their …

GPS telemetry for small seabirds: using hidden Markov models to infer foraging behaviour of Common Diving Petrels (Pelecanoides urinatrix urinatrix)

J Zhang, M Rayner, S Vickers, T Landers… - Emu-Austral …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Common Diving Petrels (Pelecanoides urinatrix urinatrix) are distributed widely
around coastal New Zealand and breed primarily on predator-free offshore islands. Despite …

Behavioural responses of Sandwich terns following the construction of offshore wind farms

CB Thaxter, RMW Green, MP Collier, RC Taylor… - Marine Biology, 2024 - Springer
Offshore wind farms (OWFs) are a key part of efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate
change. However, they have the potential to negatively impact seabird species through …

Using miniaturized GPS archival tags to assess home range features of a small plunge-diving bird: the European Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

R Musseau, M Bastianelli, C Bely, C Rousselle… - Avian Research, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background The European Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) is a small plunge-diving bird,
today considered a species of conservation concern in Europe given its rapid population …

Assessing the effectiveness of foraging radius models for seabird distributions using biotelemetry and survey data

EJ Critchley, WJ Grecian, A Bennison, A Kane… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Relatively simple foraging radius models have the potential to generate predictive
distributions for a large number of species rapidly, thus providing a cost‐effective alternative …

Behaviour related flight speeds of Sandwich Terns and their implications for wind farm collision rate modelling and impact assessment

RC Fijn, A Gyimesi - Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate quantification of flight speeds is a prerequisite to accurately predict the numbers of
collision victims of proposed wind farms using collision rate models that are a vital part of …

[PDF][PDF] Tracking offshore occurrence of common terns, endangered roseate terns, and threatened piping plovers with VHF arrays

PH Loring, PWC Paton, JD McLaren, H Bai… - Sterling (VA): US …, 2019 - espis.boem.gov
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is responsible for managing energy and
mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the United States. The OCS …