Pedro Romero-Vidal

Bald ibis, Geronticus eremita (or wood crow from Switzerland), drawn by Eleazar Albin (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleazar...) in the 1730s, after an individual held in a private bird collection
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La captura ilegal de loros en Costa Rica nos enseña que crear áreas protegidas no basta para preservar la fauna silvestre Proteger los hábitats no es suficiente para frenar el comercio ilegal de especies, hay que proporcionar una mayor educación ambiental a la población.

Ni siquiera Costa Rica, referente mundial en conservación, escapa al tráfico ilegal de fauna. Nos lo cuenta @romero-vidal.bsky.social de @ebdonana.bsky.social:

With ‘terrifying’ trade in African hornbills, scientists call for increased protection For millions of years, the African landscape — the rainforests, woodlands, savannas and scrublands — has echoed with the booms and cackles of large, raucous, strange-looking birds: hornbills. When U.S...

A new study warns that the international trade in African #hornbills is “terrifying”, with thousands of birds or their parts exported, entirely unregulated. Scientists are calling for increased protection for these key seed dispersers.

La captura ilegal de loros en Costa Rica nos enseña que crear áreas protegidas no basta para preservar la fauna silvestre Proteger los hábitats no es suficiente para frenar el comercio ilegal de especies, hay que proporcionar una mayor educación ambiental a la población.

theconversation.com/la-captura-i...

La captura ilegal de loros en Costa Rica nos enseña que crear áreas protegidas no basta para preservar la fauna silvestre Proteger los hábitats no es suficiente para frenar el comercio ilegal de especies, hay que proporcionar una mayor educación ambiental a la población.

🗣️ @romero-vidal.bsky.social: "Proteger los hábitats es necesario, pero insuficiente si no se afrontan también las actividades humanas responsables de la pérdida de especies, como la captura y el comercio ilegal de fauna."

👉Artículo completo: theconversation.com/la-captura-i...

Del montón de cosas patéticas que rodean al (d)emérito, igual la palma se la lleva que ande acordándose de España a través de la cresta de la cacatúa rosa, Cacatua leadbeateri, con la que convive en el Golfo
Vaya esperpento todo
(y pobre bicho)
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In this print from the Caprichos series, Goya depicts a parrot speaking before the clergy. It is noteworthy that the species selected by the author is a gray parrot, one of the most fluent speakers among all parrots, which is precisely what has led to this species to being threatened by trade

Que Galicia acabaría siendo un monocultivo forestal (aún más) creo que ya nadie lo dudaba...

An interesting mix of species can be seen in this 1682 painting by
Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Bird Concert. Species found in Europe, where the artist came from, are depicted alongside others from Africa, South America, and even Papua New Guinea.

Me parece pico menor

No me lo parecen. No tengo claro que son, pero diría que lavanderas no. Me cuadraría más papamoscas, pero sin tener ni idea.

In this still life by an anonymous Italian painter from the XVII century, Still-Life with Birds, we can see around 40 different species of birds. Particularly striking are the owl with jesses and the basket of plucked birds!

Parrots and Fruit with Other Birds and a Squirrel from Tobias Stranover, painted between 1710-1724. We can see a Scarlet macaw and a Yellow-naped amazon among european passerines and a Red squirrel. Parrots were already traded across the Atlantic at that time.
#parrot #art

🌱🪶 Un estudio en la isla de Surtsey (Islandia) revela que fueron las aves las principales responsables de llevar la mayoría de las plantas que colonizaron la isla.

🔗 www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

In the painting A Boy with a Flying Squirrel, from Henry Pelham in 1765, we can see a child who has what appears to be a Humboldt flying squirrel (Glaucomys oregonensis) as a pet, even with a little chain to prevent it from escaping. An interesting example of wild-caught pets from the 18th century.

How many #birds are killed by #cats in Canada? Between 19-197 million! This is the main result from my first chapter of my PhD thesis just published in Avian Conservation and Ecology. ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
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Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

🐦🦇 ¡Documentamos cómo el nóctulo grande captura y come aves migratorias en pleno vuelo!
Alucina, la persigue en caída libre por más de 1 km y se la come en el aire.

@laueast.bsky.social @theclickitclick.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social @bioacousticsau.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

El comercio ilegal agrava los desafíos de conservación de los loros en Costa Rica, ya en grave riesgo por la pérdida de hábitat MADRID, 16 (SERVIMEDIA) Un estudio liderado por la Estación Biológica de Doñana del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EBD-CSIC) revela que el comercio ileg...

El comercio ilegal agrava los desafíos de conservación de los loros en Costa Rica, ya en grave riesgo por la pérdida de hábitat www.lavanguardia.com/sociedad/202...

Habitat Protection Alone Is Insufficient: Costa Rican Parrots Thrive in Altered Landscapes but Remain Vulnerable to Poaching Aim Human population growth and resource overexploitation have induced major changes in global biodiversity. Costa Rica, with 26% of its land area protected, is often cited as a model of environment...

Our new article reveals persistent parrot poaching in Costa Rica, despite the country's exemplary environmental protection.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#wildlifetrade #parrots @ebdonana.bsky.social @consbiog.bsky.social

📢 Un estudio de la @ebdonana.bsky.social revela la magnitud del comercio ilegal de loros en Costa Rica.

Se encontraron loros silvestres mantenidos ilegalmente como mascotas en el 87% de las localidades visitadas y el 80% de los hogares.

🔗 www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

📃 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

“An essential step.” Today, members at the #IUCNCongress adopted Motion 108, which will bring global attention to the wildlife pet trade, an urgent, but often overlooked, crisis.

🌍 bit.ly/4oacyTO

Documentan por primera vez cómo el murciélago 'gigante' de Doñana atrapa y devora pájaros en pleno vuelo Tras décadas de intentos, un equipo liderado por la Estación Biológica de Doñana ha logrado registrar el sonido de un nóctulo grande depredando un petirrojo europeo en el aire

‼️Documentan por primera vez cómo el murciélago 'gigante' de Doñana atrapa y devora pájaros en pleno vuelo

#EBDxPalestina #CSICxPalestina #FreePalestine

Historical natural illustration depicting an armadillo with detailed segmented armor plates standing on all fours next to a spherical object. Beside it is a large brown marsupial-like mammal with two small young clinging to its underside. Above them are three colorful birds: a blue bird perched on a branch with leaves, a red-brown bird in mid-flight, and a large parrot with blue wings and a red-green body perched on a branch. The illustration includes detailed botanical leaves and is annotated with figure numbers for scientific reference.

🛡 Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam: .
Amstelaedami: Apud J. Wetstenium, & Gul. Smith, & Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1734-1765..

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(me traigo, actualizado, este hilo, larguito, del otro lado)

¿Cuántos animales matan los gatos en España cada año?
No es un cálculo fácil, pero ahí va un intento:
al menos 200 MILLONES
Abajo explico un intento de poner en pie la cuenta
@ebdonana.bsky.social

🌍🌿 A partir de mañana, Sevilla acogerá el VII Congreso Internacional de Biodiversidad y Conservación de la Naturaleza.

El evento, organizado por CONSERBIO, la @ebdonana.bsky.social y la @pablodeolavide.upo.es, reunirá a más de 250 asistentes de más de 15 países.

🔗 www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

Parakeet (Psitaccus)
@romero-vidal.bsky.social

A 1-min video on outdoor cats and extinctions
(sound on)
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A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions - Nature Ecology & Evolution Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. Here the authors find general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographic...

New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com

Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...