Jente Ottenburghs (he/him), Author at British Ornithologists' Union - Page 5 of 13

About the author

Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)

Jente Ottenburghs is the BOU’s Journal Publicity Officer and resident science writer. He is a curious evolutionary biologist with a passion for writing. He obtained his PhD from Wageningen University (the Netherlands) where he studied the genetic consequences of hybridization between several goose species. After a postdoc at Uppsala University (Sweden), he returned to Wageningen University for a lecturer position in ecology. Apart from his goose work, Jente manages the Avian Hybrids Project, a website and blog that gathers the scientific literature on hybridization in birds.

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The Dead Sea Sparrow: one or two species?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-06-13T12:27:22+00:0016 Jun 2022|distribution, diversification, DNA sequencing, gene flow, morphology, passerines, phylogeny, population divergence, Taxonomy|

Combining several lines of evidence to reach a solid taxonomic decision.

City birds have fewer feathers

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-06-04T09:01:28+00:002 Jun 2022|adaptation, Breeding, diet, forest birds, heat, nestlings, non-invasive sampling, thermoregulation, Urban birds|

Could it be due to thermoregulation or food quality?

Snowy days and Tawny Owls

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-05-18T09:43:15+00:0019 May 2022|adult survival, bird vision, camouflage, colour-polymorphism, nocturnal birds, physiology, plumage, predation, raptors, winter|

Are grey colour morphs better protected against predation?

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-05-03T13:06:43+00:005 May 2022|agriculture, anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bird movements, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, movement, overwintering, plastics, pollution, remote sensing, tracking, water quality|

Human activities determine the daily schedule of overwintering birds in Spain.

Nest-switching Storks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-15T09:02:32+00:0021 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, Breeding, displacement, Genetics, gps tags, movement, nest monitoring, nestlings, occurrence data, population dynamics, ringing, tracking|

What is the best method to quantify the frequency of nest-switching?

Capercaillies and climate change

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-04T14:10:19+00:007 Apr 2022|annual cycle, behaviour, Breeding, breeding success, climate change, forest birds, Galliformes, phenology, reproduction, temperature|

Earlier lekking activities enable these birds to cope with changing weather patterns.

The ecology of avian blood parasites

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-03-19T13:17:00+00:0024 Mar 2022|avian malaria, bird assemblages, disease, forest birds, Himalayan birds, parasites|

Mapping the distribution of parasites across Himalayan bird species.

Decline of the double-mutualists

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-03-06T13:21:25+00:0010 Mar 2022|bird communities, community ecology, endemic, island birds, seed dispersal, species interactions|

Loss of native bird species affects plant reproduction in New Zealand.

Adaptively adjusting sex ratios

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-02-24T16:04:32+00:0024 Feb 2022|Breeding, dispersal, foraging resource limitation, nest monitoring, nestlings, phenology, trade-offs|

Western Bluebirds tend to produce more sons at the start of the breeding season.

The colour of Blue Manakin eggs

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-02-05T12:37:51+00:0010 Feb 2022|adaptation, Breeding, camara traps, camouflage, eggs, experiment, nest monitoring, nest predation, tropical birds|

Could these colour patterns function as camouflage?

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