adult survival Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Do geolocators affect the survival of petrels?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-09-17T12:45:57+00:0021 Sep 2023|adult survival, bio-logging, geolocator, gps tags, island birds, life history, mark‐recapture, Round Island petrel, Seabirds|

A long-term dataset of Trindade Petrels finds no clear effect.

What’s lead got to do with it?

By Aimée McIntosh|2023-05-07T12:36:15+00:008 May 2023|adult survival, biomonitoring, early-career researcher, ECR, Farmland birds, fieldwork, IBIS, lead poisoning, waterbirds|

Reducing lead shot ingestion in managed goose populations

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

Turtle Doves under threat

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-04-06T10:34:29+00:006 Apr 2023|adult survival, agriculture, Bird Protection, Farmland birds, habitat degradation, illegal killing, infectious diseases, life history, Migration, population dynamics|

What causes the dramatic decline of this species?

Worried about the Greenland White-fronted Goose

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-02-04T11:34:43+00:009 Feb 2023|adult survival, agriculture, annual cycle, Bayesian modelling, breeding success, hunting pressure, Migration, overwintering, population dynamics, ringing, waterbirds|

Why has this goose population declined since 2000?

Fidelity or divorce? The dilemma of Jaegers

By Yannick Seyer|2022-12-05T12:01:41+00:008 Dec 2022|adult survival, annual cycle, breeding biology, colour ringing/banding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, life history, mark‐recapture, monitoring, mortality, movements, pair-bond, phenotypic variation, population dynamics, reproduction, Seabirds, site fidelity, Tundra|

How faithful are Arctic migratory seabirds to mates and breeding sites?

Where do Barbary Reed Warblers overwinter?

By Frédéric Jiguet|2022-11-07T15:06:03+00:0014 Nov 2022|adult survival, Africa, bio-logging, distribution, geolocator, IBIS, migrant, Migration, movement, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, passerines, population dynamics, ringing, stable isotopes, tracking|

Geolocators and stable isotopes reveal the African wintering grounds of this long-hidden European species

Changes in societal attitudes towards wildlife in Spain

By Juan Jiménez|2022-11-03T12:52:42+00:007 Nov 2022|adult survival, bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, collision, illegal killing, mortality, owls, passerines, persecution, raptors, rehabilitation, road traffic, scavengers, survival, Urban birds, urbanization|

An assessment using admissions to wildlife recovery centres

Understanding the Success of the Scops Owl

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-10-28T11:49:20+00:003 Nov 2022|adult survival, agriculture, birds of prey, breeding success, demography, Farmland birds, habitat degradation, migration stopover, monitoring, overwintering, survival|

What factors determine population growth on a French island?

Fatty acid composition of migratory passerines

By Pedro Miguel Araújo|2022-10-23T21:00:02+00:0024 Oct 2022|adaptation, adult survival, avian biology, bird movements, IBIS, metabolism, migrant, Migration, passerines|

Do fatty acid profiles vary accordingly in migratory passerines?