The Results Implementation of a Foster Parents Adoption Method for Restoration of the Saker Falcon Population in Russia (With the Results of GPS/GSM Tracking of Fledglings)

Shnayder, Elena P.; Nikolenko, Elvira G.; Karyakin, Igor V.; Prommer, Mátyás; Сарычев, Е. И.; Rozhkova, Darja N.; Zinevich, Ludmila S.

doi:10.19074/1814-8654-2018-37-66-94

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“…In this respect, it is remarkable also that the Pannonian population possesses an apparently higher genetic diversity, although it has undergone a documented bottleneck in the past 80 yr 70 . On the other hand, the studied Tuvan population has also undergone a dramatic population size reduction and has just recently started to recover as a result of conservation actions 17 , 32 , 71 , 72 . Reduction in population size of sakers on the western part of the area has been strongly connected to habitat loss, electrocution and direct persecution, and partly to the steep decline of prey populations, particularly ground-squirrels (genus Spermophilus ) 73 .…”

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Phylogenomic insights into the polyphyletic nature of Altai falcons within eastern sakers (Falco cherrug) and the origins of gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus)

Zinevich,

Prommer,

Laczkó

et al. 2023

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The Altai falcon from Central Asia always attracted the attention of humans. Long considered a totemic bird in its native area, modern falconers still much appreciated this large-bodied and mighty bird of prey due to its rarity and unique look. The peculiar body characteristics halfway between the saker falcon (Falco cherrug) and the gyrfalcon (F. rusticolus) triggered debates about its contentious taxonomy. The weak phylogenetic signal associated with traditional genetic methods could not resolve this uncertainty. Here, we address the controversial evolutionary origin of Altai falcons by means of a genome-wide approach, Restriction-site Associated DNA sequencing, using sympatric eastern sakers falcons, allopatric western saker falcons and gyrfalcons as outgroup. This approach provided an unprecedented insight into the phylogenetic relationships of the studied populations by delivering 17,095 unlinked SNPs shedding light on the polyphyletic nature of Altai falcons within eastern sakers. Thus we concluded that the former must correspond to a low taxonomic rank, probably an ecotype or form of the latter. Also, we found that eastern sakers are paraphyletic without gyrfalcons, thus, these latter birds are best regarded as the direct sister lineage of the eastern sakers. This evolutionary relationship, corroborated also by re-analyzing the dataset with the inclusion of outgroup samples (F. biarmicus and F. peregrinus), put eastern sakers into a new light as the potential ancestral genetic source of high latitude and altitude adaptation in descendent populations. Finally, conservation genomic values hint at the stable genetic background of the studied saker populations.

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