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Evaluating the Kentish Plover stronghold

Grant McDonald2022-05-14T20:39:16+00:0016 May 2022|arid zone, climate change, Conservation, distribution, ecology, fieldwork, habitat, IBIS, passive monitoring, populations, shorebirds|

Widespread distribution but low numbers across a presumed species stronghold

All in the genes

Begona Martinez Cruz2022-05-09T10:23:41+00:0012 May 2022|BOU-funded, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, Genetics|

Disentangling the demographic history and adaptation of the imperial eagles

Overlooked diversity in a European context

Manuel Schweizer2022-04-29T15:29:48+00:009 May 2022|cryptic, diversification, diversity, DNA sequencing, evolution, genetic diversity, Genetics, IBIS, Mediterranean forest, museum collections, phylogeny, population structure, Speciation, Taxonomy|

Genome-wide data uncovers two morphologically cryptic lineages in the Middle Spotted Woodpecker

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

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.

Same strategy as last year?

Kirsty Franklin2022-04-27T20:49:48+00:002 May 2022|behaviour, bird movements, BOU Warham Student, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, islands birds, Migration, movements, phenology, Round Island petrel, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tropical birds|

Tropical seabirds show high consistency of migratory behaviours despite often weak seasonal predictability of resources

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Joanna Wu2022-04-27T13:16:55+00:0028 Apr 2022|BOU, Community, Diversity Blog, equality and diversity|

The Potential of Difference

The migration of the Canarian Houbara Bustard

Inmaculada Abril-Colón2022-04-21T10:11:43+00:0025 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, land use, Migration, movements, nocturnal birds, protected areas, satellite tracking, short-distance migration|

Short-distance nocturnal migration in an island endemic bustard

Nest-switching Storks

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?

Competition for food in artificial mixed colonies

João Gameiro2022-04-15T11:26:17+00:0018 Apr 2022|adaptation, bird assemblages, bird communities, communal, community ecology, diet, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, nest monitoring, nesting, nestlings, niche overlap, population structure, stable isotopes|

Do birds in artificial mixed colonies overlap in their diet?

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Tom Finch (he/him)2022-05-17T13:42:33+00:0014 Apr 2022|BOU, Community, Diversity Blog, equality and diversity|

I am he and we are all together

How do territorial songbirds convey aggression?

Sean Roach2022-04-11T15:40:14+00:0011 Apr 2022|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, ecology, IBIS, passerines, song, sound|

An examination of overlapping, matching, and unique song forms

Capercaillies and climate change

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.

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Evaluating the Kentish Plover stronghold

All in the genes

Overlooked diversity in a European context

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

Same strategy as last year?

#BOUdiversityBlog

The migration of the Canarian Houbara Bustard

Nest-switching Storks

Competition for food in artificial mixed colonies

#BOUdiversityBlog

How do territorial songbirds convey aggression?

Capercaillies and climate change