He is also looking forward to seeing pied flycatchers nesting, red kites, and a heronry.

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The second point was confirmed by watching 2, 348 matings between flycatchers in the overlap zone.

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They claimed the project posed threats to California condors, golden eagles, southwestern willow flycatchers and bats.

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They charged that the installations will also pose hazards to golden eagles, southwestern willow flycatchers and bats.

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The study, published in Nature, looks at the birds known as European flycatchers.

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This lack of grandchildren should be an enormous selective pressure on flycatchers to pick a mate of the same species.

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Here the male pied flycatchers are brown, like their females, and the male collared flycatchers have unusually extensive areas of white.

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Yet among collared flycatchers this does not appear to be the case.

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In collared flycatchers, male sexiness is easy to measure.

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Hans Ellegren and Ben Sheldon, two biologists at the University of Uppsala, in Sweden, and their colleagues, have demonstrated that female collared flycatchers do indeed adjust the sex ratios of their broods according to the sexiness of their mates.

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