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  2. Agreement on the Conservation of Populations of European Bats

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    The advisory committee is the working body of the agreement. It evaluates data and discusses scientific issues concerning bat research and conservation to set priorities for the Agreement' future work. The committee deals with topics like bat migration, light pollution or the impact of wind turbines on bat populations. Furthermore, it drafts ...

  3. French emigration (1789–1815) - Wikipedia

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    Caricature mocking the King of Prussia and émigrés. French emigration from the years 1789 to 1815 refers to the mass movement of citizens from France to neighboring countries, in reaction to the instability and upheaval caused by the French Revolution and the succeeding Napoleonic rule.

  4. Common noctule - Wikipedia

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    Ecology of bat reproduction. In Ecology of bats, pp. 57–104: Springer. Schober, W. and Grimmberger, E. 1989. A guide to bats of Britain and Europe. Hamlyn. Speakman, J. and Racey, P. 1986. The influence of body condition on sexual development of male brown longā€eared bats (Plecotus auritus) in the wild. Journal of Zoology 210, 515–525.

  5. Russians in France - Wikipedia

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    Of approximately 1.5 million exiles during the Russian Civil War, about 400,000 took up residence in France.Political refugees, White émigrés gathered around charities like the Zemgor Committee and the company of the Russian Red Cross, the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute (founded in 1924) and the Action chrétienne des étudiants russes (ACER ) (1926), which provided to their ...

  6. Animal migration - Wikipedia

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    Long-distance migrations occur in some bats – notably the mass migration of the Mexican free-tailed bat between Oregon and southern Mexico. [36] Migration is important in cetaceans, including whales, dolphins and porpoises; some species travel long distances between their feeding and their breeding areas. [37]

  7. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia

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    Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]

  8. European emigration - Wikipedia

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    Approximately 5–7 million Muslim migrants from the Balkans (from Bulgaria 1.15 million-1.5 million; Greece 1.2 million; Romania, 400,000; Former Yugoslavia, 800,000), Russia (500,000), the Caucasus (900,000 of whom 2/3 remained the rest going to Syria, Jordan and Cyprus) and Syria (500,000 mostly as a result of the Syrian Civil War) arrived ...

  9. Fourth-wave Russian emigration - Wikipedia

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    The fourth wave of Russian emigration took place after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 when people began migrating from Russia in large numbers. This wave continues into the present, with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine leading to considerable Russian emigration associated with the invasion .