Blog - British Ornithologists' Union

The Gems of Creation

Robert Montgomerie2025-11-23T19:52:23+00:0023 Nov 2025|History of Ornithology, hummingbirds, Names|

Enchanted by hummingbirds

A Seabird Success Story? Temporal Monitoring of Kittiwakes and Fulmars in East Iceland

Anya Shackleton-Jones2025-11-16T19:54:39+00:0017 Nov 2025|BOU-funded, early-career researcher, nest monitoring, Seabirds|

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?

Roni Ostreiher2025-11-08T16:11:41+00:0010 Nov 2025|behaviour, communication, IBIS, territoriality|

Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird

The ecology of a nationally important Great Cormorant population on Puffin Island, Anglesey, Wales

Rebecca Gillmore2025-11-16T20:16:54+00:006 Nov 2025|BOU-funded, early-career researcher, ecology, Seabirds|

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.

Searching for signals of local adaptation in an endemic bird of the Tropical Dry Forest of Mexico: conservation perspectives in the face of climate change

Andreia Malpica2025-10-30T20:24:24+00:003 Nov 2025|adaptation, climate change, tropical birds|

Report from a BOU-funded project

Intra-African Bird Migration at EOU2025

Soladoye Iwajomo2025-10-27T08:04:33+00:0027 Oct 2025|BOU Conferences, BOU members, BOU-funded, Conferences, News, science communication|

Each year, the BOU funds members' attendance at ornithology conferences via Member Conference Attendance Grants. Here Soladoye Iwajomo provides an account of his time at EOU2025.