adaptation Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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

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

Report from a BOU-funded project

What variable to choose?

By Krista Oswald|2023-11-13T09:13:17+00:0013 Nov 2023|adaptation, Africa, climate, climate change, monitoring, physiology, reproduction|

Implications of variable choice when estimating vulnerability to climate change

Why do birds get smaller?

By Laura Bosco|2023-10-22T20:15:32+00:0023 Oct 2023|adaptation, annual cycle, antipredator behaviour, avian biology, citizen science, climate, climate change, monitoring, morphology, non-breeding ecology, volunteering, weather|

How long-term winter bird ringing unravels body size shrinking in response to climate change

Are long tails all about sex?

By Wenyi Zhou|2023-06-19T17:22:26+00:0026 Jun 2023|adaptation, avian biology, behaviour, communication, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, feathers, IBIS, passerines, phenotypic variation, plumage|

A review of functions of avian elongated tails

Fatal attraction or novel niche?

By Amber Swicegood|2023-05-23T12:46:18+00:0029 May 2023|adaptation, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, Farmland birds, grassland birds, habitat degradation, habitat selection, nesting, passerines|

Adaptability of a grassland specialist facing landscape-level habitat change

Why do gulls steal from humans?

By Shubhi Raghav|2023-05-15T13:43:15+00:0011 May 2023|adaptation, anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bird-human interactions, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, kleptoparasitism, People, Seabirds|

What affects Herring Gull food stealing behaviour in towns?

Seeking shelter under the snow

By Amy Shipley|2023-04-17T17:37:08+00:0017 Apr 2023|adaptation, adult survival, annual cycle, behaviour, bio-logging, bird movements, climate, climate change, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, game bird, habitat selection, IBIS, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, temperature, thermal stress, winter|

The benefits of snow burrowing for a winter-adapted bird

Ironclad feathers

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-11-29T15:00:10+00:001 Dec 2022|adaptation, behaviour, camouflage, feathers, ornamentation|

Why do some bird species cover themselves in iron oxides?

Colour-by-stressor?

By Alana Krug-MacLeod (she/her)|2022-11-18T20:49:15+00:0024 Nov 2022|adaptation, avian biology, colouration, corticosterone, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, physiology, shorebirds|

Pre-hatch temperature stress linked to bird colouration in adulthood

How is climate change affecting Bearded Vulture ranges?

By Tulsi Subedi|2022-11-07T10:13:16+00:0010 Nov 2022|adaptation, Africa, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, climate, climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, habitat, Himalayan birds, IBIS, modelling, raptors, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Modelling Bearded Vulture distributions under various climate scenarios