Home - British Ornithologists' Union

Advancing ornithology

British Ornithologists’ Union

Join us

Red-naped Ibis | CHANDRANUJ | CC BY SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

IBIS – #1 in ornithology

Published continuously since 1859, enjoy over 160 years of our international journal at your fingertips!

Access our journal

Conferences & Meetings

Present your work or attend to learn about the latest research from around the world. It’s all here!

View all events

#theBOUblog

With at least one new post every week, we promote current research from all around the world. Come blog with us!

Read latest posts

Funding

Grants and bursaries aimed at answering novel research questions, develop new skills and present results.

View all schemes

Become a member

Join a great community of like minded people and receive member benefits and access to research funding.

Join us today

Stay connected

Choose how to stay connected for all the latest BOU and ornithological news

10 October 2022, 00:00:00

10 October 2022

-

11 October 2022

Citizen science and birds: people powering ornithology | #BOUasm22

Let's meet soon!

Virginia State Parks CC BY 2.0 Wikimedia Commons

23 November 2022, 00:00:00

23 November 2022

Birds as individuals | #BOUsci22

Let's meet soon!

Imran Shah CC BY SA 2.0 Wikimedia Commons

4 April 2023, 00:00:00

4 April 2023

-

6 April 2023

Evolutionary responses | #BOU2023

Let's meet soon!

Mprasannak CC BY SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

9 April 2024, 00:00:00

9 April 2024

-

11 April 2024

Urban birds | #BOU2024

Let's meet soon!

Sander Crombach via unsplash.com

Latest from #theBOUblog

Feather colouration and the (mis)measure of patterns

How to objectively “measure” colouration in species with complex patterns of spots and/or lines?

18 Aug 2022|

Genome-wide markers resolve Forest Owlet taxonomy

Examining UCEs clarify phylogenetic relationships of the Forest Owlet

15 Aug 2022|

Singing Penguins

Can we use penguin display songs for monitoring colonies?

11 Aug 2022|

Twitter

Tweets 87.2k

Following 2,188

Followers 20.8k

Likes 12,161

BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 Retweeted · Dr. Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬
@Jente_O

Oxidative physiology is weakly associated with pigmentation in birds | Ecology and Evolution
https://t.co/W1qJhqTOv9

#ornithology

View on Twitter

1

0

BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 Retweeted · Dr. Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids 🦆🧬
@Jente_O

The adaptive function of construction of multiple non-breeding nests in birds | Ibis
https://t.co/FGuwRGcTfx

#ornithology

View on Twitter

0

BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 ·
@IBIS_journal

A New Feature of Nesting Ecology in the Vulnerable European Turtle Dove: Nest Site and Nesting Tree Sharing with Coexisting Species at Three North African Wetlands | https://t.co/xqvsenlaMH | International Journal of Ecology | #ornithology

View on Twitter

0

1