agriculture Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

By 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.

What future for the British uplands?

By Alistair Crowle|2022-01-19T17:17:47+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

Causes of farmland bird declines revised

By Zuzanna Rosin|2021-11-30T18:02:58+00:0029 Nov 2021|agriculture, biodiversity, bird assemblages, bird communities, bird-human interactions, Conservation, Farmland birds, habitat degradation, land management, land use|

Rural settlement modernisation may harm birds more than agricultural intensification

The rise of the Greater White-fronted Goose

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-08-03T12:07:38+00:0015 Jul 2021|agriculture, climate change, population dynamics, sustainable hunting|

What factors explain the recent population increase in North America?

Birds facing increasing anthropogenic noise

By Adrián Barrero Diego|2021-01-06T08:34:12+00:0011 Jan 2021|agriculture, bird song, Disturbance, Farmland birds, Little Bustard, noise pollution, road traffic|

Can a non-passerine bird adjust its song according to noise?

Neonicotinoids

By Steph Morren|2020-10-05T15:42:22+00:0031 Aug 2020|agriculture, biomonitoring, insecticide, neonicotinoids, sub-lethal|

Not just about the bees!

Little Bustards and where to find them

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:40:46+00:002 Jul 2020|agriculture, Breeding, Conservation, habitat selection, News|

Do males and females select the same habitats?

Bad news for the Stone-curlew

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-10-08T10:52:34+00:003 Oct 2019|adult survival, agriculture, Breeding, Conservation, Farmland birds, nest monitoring, News, population dynamics|

Intensified agriculture contributes to population decline in France

Are Burrowing Owls stuck in an ecological trap?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-16T14:53:36+00:0018 Apr 2019|agriculture, Breeding, Disturbance, fledglings, habitat selection, News|

Exploring the influence of agriculture on nesting success.

Umbrellas for grassland bird conservation

By Yoan Fourcade|2021-06-08T14:14:07+00:004 Sep 2017|agriculture, grassland, habitat, land management|

Can we conserve the entire grassland avifauna by protecting the Corncrake only?