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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.

Promoting hummingbird conservation through demographic analyses

Simon English2022-03-31T13:24:45+00:004 Apr 2022|avian biology, bird communities, Breeding, climate change, colour ringing/banding, Conservation, demography, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hummingbirds, population dynamics, population structure, ringing|

What survival rates can tell us about population declines

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Rich Howells2022-03-31T09:24:04+00:0031 Mar 2022|BOU, Community, Diversity Blog, equality and diversity|

Who wants to touch dead birds? Me!

Dancing after sex

Anastasia Dalziell2022-03-25T17:20:21+00:0028 Mar 2022|behaviour, bird song, breeding biology, communication, IBIS, mate selection, pair communications, passerines, plumage, reproductive signalling, sensory ecology, tropical birds, vocalisations|

Male Superb Lyrebirds perform a bizarre audio-visual display, after copulation

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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

Promoting hummingbird conservation through demographic analyses

#BOUdiversityBlog

Dancing after sex