Surviving in the city: annual and seasonal survival variation in Mediterranean house sparrows Passer domesticus

2026/05/07 by Edgar Bernat-Ponce, José A. Gil‐Delgado, José A. Gil-Delgado +2 · 2 voices
Environmental Science · Immunology and Microbiology · #Avian ecology and behavior #Bird parasitology and diseases #Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses

paper · doi:10.25225/jvb.26024

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• Why is the House Sparrow disappearing from our cities? 🐦🏘️ Our new research in Spain reveals a worrying trend: annual survival is declining, with adult females and juveniles hit the hardest. A thr [bsky, 24 points, 1 comments]
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