This study was carried out on two long-legged buzzards that were brought for treatment to the surgery clinic of the Veterinary Faculty, University of Selçuk. A few lice were observed on the body surfaces of the birds. Forty-seven lice were collected from the buzzards. The lice were preserved in a tube containing 70% ethanol. They were mounted on slides separately after being cleared in lactophe...

Three new Hagnagora Druce species (Geometridae, Larentiinae) are described: Hagnagora richardi Brehm, sp. n. from Ecuador, Hagnagora hedwigae Brehm, sp. n. from Ecuador, and Hagnagora mirandahenrichae Brehm, sp. n. from Costa Rica. A checklist of taxa assigned to Hagnagora is provided. Hagnagora is provisionally divided into six clades: the anicata clade (6 species), the buckleyi clade (3 speci...

The death of buzzards (Buteo buteo) found in fodder and sugar beet fields treated with granular carbofuran was investigated. To determine if there was a causal relationship between carbofuran treatment and bird mortality, earthworms of a specific fodder beet field as well as the crop contents of dead buzzards were analyzed for carbofuran contamination. Earthworms of the fodder beet field contai...

There are serious concerns about the ecological degradation caused by modern agriculture and its impact on top-chains predators. But, scientists still disagree how to assess which winners losers of Anthropocene biodiversity changes. In this field research, many studies have been carried out passerine birds but long-term ones, especially raptors, missing. Our study reports a twelve-year survey t...