Recent posts:
Barn Swallows, New Collaborations, and Welsh Dancing: My First EOU Experience
Each year, the BOU funds members' attendance at ornithology conferences via Member Conference Attendance Grants. Here Susan McKinlay provides an account of her time at EOU2025.
How many bird species?
The answer: it depends.
Returning to their natural home: Lesser Kestrels resist environmental changes by nesting in cliffs
Breeding in natural nesting sites can improve the resilience of local Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) populations to environmental changes
Reflections from the 13th Australasian Ornithological Conference in Perth, Australia
Each year, the BOU funds members' attendance at ornithology conferences via Member Conference Attendance Grants. Here Radhika Jha provides an account of her time at AOC2025.
Do wing patches predict assortative mating?
White wing patch size predicts assortative mating in Daurian Redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)
Following the Mediterranean Gulls to the 15TH EOU
Each year, the BOU funds members' attendance at ornithology conferences via Member Conference Attendance Grants. Here Ioannis Kalaitzakis provides an account of his time at EOU2025.
Partners Beyond Breeding
Pair-bonded Chirruping Wedgebills spend lots of time together; but they’re closer after breeding than during breeding
At EOU2025: Using genomics to study how birds are moving and redistributing behavioural traits across geographic space
Each year, the BOU funds members' attendance at ornithology conferences via Member Conference Attendance Grants. Here Malin Klumpp provides an account of her time at EOU2025.
The Gems of Creation
Enchanted by hummingbirds
A Seabird Success Story? Temporal Monitoring of Kittiwakes and Fulmars in East Iceland
The BOU Summer Placement Scheme provides financial support for undergraduate students to carry out small summer ornithological research projects. Here Anya Shackleton-Jones provides an account of her time in East Iceland.
To leave or to stay home?
Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird
The ecology of a nationally important Great Cormorant population on Puffin Island, Anglesey, Wales
The BOU Summer Placement Scheme provides financial support for undergraduate students to carry out small summer ornithological research projects. Here Rebecca Gillmore provides an account of her time on Puffin Island.