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Adaptively adjusting sex ratios

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.

Oystercatchers avoid a disturbed, high tide roost

Henk-Jan van der Kolk2022-02-21T10:32:08+00:0021 Feb 2022|behaviour, bio-logging, bird-human interactions, Disturbance, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, gps tags, IBIS, movements, satellite tracking, shorebirds, waders|

High levels of tourism correlate with roost site avoidance

Surviving in the colonies

Guy Beauchamp2022-02-18T09:35:06+00:0017 Feb 2022|bird communities, breeding biology, colonial birds, communal, cooperative breeding, ecology, IBIS, island birds, life history, longevity, parental care, scavengers, Seabirds|

How does breeding in colonies influence annual survival in birds?

Impacts of parasitic flies on nestlings

Exequiel Gonzalez2022-02-14T11:17:57+00:0014 Feb 2022|avian biology, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, fledgling survival, invertebrates, nestling growth, nestling survival, nestlings, parasites, parasitism, passerines|

Addressing how the nestlings of three species that differ in body size are affected

The colour of Blue Manakin eggs

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?

Tracking conservation conflicts

Jeremy Cusack2022-02-15T11:55:58+00:007 Feb 2022|Bird Protection, bird-human interactions, Conservation, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, land management, People, persecution, threatened species|

Tracking the escalation and de-escalation of conservation conflicts

On the hunt for winter sun

Connor Panter2022-01-31T19:27:21+00:003 Feb 2022|behaviour, bird movements, birds of prey, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, foraging resource limitation, gps tags, habitat selection, illegal killing, land management, land use, migrant, mortality, movements, overwintering, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, winter|

Exploring drivers of Red Kite space use in winter

Colouration in Bearded Vultures

Pascual López-López2022-02-03T14:35:55+00:0031 Jan 2022|avian biology, birds of prey, communication, IBIS, non-vocal communication, plumage, raptors, reproductive signalling, soaring birds, vultures|

Dominant females are usually darker and prefer darker males for breeding: a new study on bird colouration

Learning the language of birds

Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)2022-01-22T13:26:35+00:0027 Jan 2022|behaviour, Breeding, experiment, non-breeding ecology, passerines, recording, song, territoriality, vocalisations|

Context matters when it comes to mobbing calls.

Citizen science vs. professional bird databases

Sofia Galván2022-01-27T12:10:06+00:0024 Jan 2022|citizen science, data repository, early-career researcher, ECR, museum collections, occurrence data, open source, volunteers|

Detecting and controlling individual biases is essential in all kinds of databases

Most-cited IBIS papers in 2021

Dominic McCafferty2022-01-24T16:48:26+00:0022 Jan 2022|IBIS, Journal, journal metrics|

Our Editor-in-Chief, Dominic McCafferty, shares with you our most-cited articles of 2020.

What future for the British uplands?

Alistair Crowle2022-01-19T17:17:47+00:0020 Jan 2022|agriculture, EU, funding, game bird, habitat, habitat degradation, IBIS, land management, land use, legislation, moorland, People, red grouse, upland birds|

Are moorlands destined to be tree and sheep covered or are there alternatives

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Adaptively adjusting sex ratios

Oystercatchers avoid a disturbed, high tide roost

Surviving in the colonies

Impacts of parasitic flies on nestlings

The colour of Blue Manakin eggs

Tracking conservation conflicts

On the hunt for winter sun

Colouration in Bearded Vultures

Learning the language of birds

Citizen science vs. professional bird databases

Most-cited IBIS papers in 2021

What future for the British uplands?