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• I need some ants too: heterospecific and conspecific social facilitation of anting in congeneric crows from India

  Nizamudheen Moinudheen, Anbazhagan Abinesh, Gajal Gupta, Kesavan Rishi, Elangovan Vignesh, Mohammed Shahir, Moorthi Saran, Arockianathan Samson

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2026.1009

  • 271 abstract views
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  • 137 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

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• Black-winged stilt Himantopus humantopus breeding in an industrial plant: long-term trend (2009-2024) following progressive burial of settling water basins

  Pietro Giovacchini, Francesco Baronti, Cristiana Fattorini, Giacomo Radi, Corrado Battisti

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2026.926

  • 217 abstract views
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• Is the European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola) a fully resident species in Italy? Observations on its phenology along the altitudinal gradient in central Italy

  Steven Hueting

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2026.930

  • 350 abstract views
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• The endangered and endemic Tutema (Porphyriops melanops bogotensis Chapman) and the Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) use an artificial pond in Boyacá State, Colombia

  Fernando Ramírez

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2026.942

  • 316 abstract views
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• Considerations on the first confirmed nesting records of Tyto alba guttata in northern Italy

  Alessandro Nardotto, Cristian Bertolin, Maia Pastres, Lucio Panzarin, Davide Aldi

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2026.943

  • 586 abstract views
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• New record of Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) in extreme southern Algeria

  Belkacem Aimene Boulaouad, Djamel Hadj Aissa, Karim Attouche, Mohamed Missoum, Khaled Ayyach, Bachir Harzallah, Mohamed Belkacem

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.874

  • 335 abstract views
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• When Swallows postpone the south: first recorded November fledging of Hirundo rustica in Italy

  Davide Meggiorini, Francesco Cecere, Lorenzo Maffezzoli, Alessandro Pavesi, Lella Rossetti

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.908

  • 1,188 abstract views
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• [Birds trapped in structures or materials of anthropogenic or natural origin]

  Leonardo Mostini

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.765

  • 754 abstract views
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• Sunning behavior in Black Kite (Milvus migrans): an opportunistic observation from South India

  Pathissery John Sarlin, Sandie Morris, Aparna Mohan, Sancia Morris, Savio Morris, Polycarp Joseph

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.928

  • 664 abstract views
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• Synanthropic common birds in a Mediterranean urban park: no significant local change along a medium-term time range (2006-2023)

  Vincenzo Ferri, Christiana Soccini, Corrado Battisti

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.891

  • 490 abstract views
  • 234 PDF
  • 98 SUPPORTING INFORMATION

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• First cases of unsuccessful breeding of the Mediterranean shag Gulosus aristotelis desmarestii in the Italian northern Adriatic (Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, northeastern Italy)

  Paolo Utmar, Maurizio Spoto, Davide Scridel

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.910

  • 460 abstract views
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• Observation of a Nilgiri Wood Pigeon (Columba elphinstonii) feeding on boiled peanuts at Doddabetta Peak, The Nilgiris, India

  Vignesh Elangovan, Rishi Kesavan, Moinudheen N

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.904

  • 553 abstract views
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• The potential role of the yellow-legged gull, Larus michahellis as a seed disperser of an invasive plant species in the Tuscan Archipelago

  Simona Lippi, Massimiliano Sanfilippo

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.776

  • 809 abstract views
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• Intersex plumage in Plum-headed Parakeet (Psittacula cyanocephala)

  Rounak Choudhary, Vivek Sharma, Dipesh Kumar Jangir, Subroto Dutta

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2024.807

  • 688 abstract views
  • 518 PDF

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• A Notes on the Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) and the influence of solar irradiance in a wetland from Boyacá State, Colombia

  Fernando Ramírez

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.779

  • 619 abstract views
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• [Play activity of the hooded crow Corvus corone cornix]

  Leonardo Mostini

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2024.576

  • 824 abstract views
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• [Breeding of Pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) in Ossola Valley (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedimont)]

  Radames Bionda

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.888

  • 512 abstract views
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• Updates on the occurrence in Italy and biometrics of Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia luscinia)

  Niccolò Fagotto, Enrico Carta

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.856

  • 526 abstract views
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• Eleonora’s Falcons (Falco eleonorae) hunting for roller dung beetles (Scarabaeus sp.)

  Tiziano Londei

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2024.855

  • 942 abstract views
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• Citizen scientist in action: first evidence of the non-native spiny-cheek crayfish Faxonius limosus (Rafinesque, 1817) as a trophic source for water-related birds

  Jan Giordano, Davide Taurozzi, Giuseppe Vecchio, Massimiliano Scalici, Corrado Battisti

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2025.815

  • 659 abstract views
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• The Indian Silverbill Euodice malabarica: a new exotic breeding species for the Italian avifauna?

  Enrico Carta, Elan Federico Zucchetti, Rudy Valfiorito, Niccolò Alberti

  DOI https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2024.853

  • 1,125 abstract views
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