How urban green space typologies and attributes influence avifauna in rapidly urbanizing Afrotropical cities.

Urban green spaces serve as critical refugia for bird conservation in an increasingly urbanized world. To understand how these spaces support avian communities in Afrotropical cities, we investigated bird assemblages across 40 urban green spaces in Jos-Plateau and Abuja-FCT in central Nigeria, covering a total of 91 transects (45.5 km), to examine how green space typologies and attributes influence avian biodiversity.

The Eye of the Chiropterologist: Phenotypic Versus Genotypic Identification of Bats.

Bats are a diverse and ecologically important group of mammals that play critical roles in ecosystems. Accurate identification is necessary to comprehend bat species' ecology and behavior to further the conservation of bats. Both phenotypic and genotypic methods have been used for bat identification, but their relative effectiveness remains unclear in the Afrotropics.

Following the White Vulture: Ethno-ornithology along the Flyway of the Egyptian Vulture ().

Unlabelled: Vultures constitute globally the most rapidly declining group of birds. Across their wide distribution range, they share common ecological functions and unfavourable conservation status while being associated with varying habitats, lifestyles, cultural standing, and threats. We reveal conceptualisations about the emblematic yet critically endangered Egyptian vulture along its migratory flyway from the Balkans through the Middle East to Africa.