agriculture Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Autumn-sown crops contribute to Mute Swan recovery

By Tiffany Ki|2023-10-12T10:46:56+00:0011 Sep 2023|agriculture, annual cycle, anthropogenic food sources, diet, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, land management, lead poisoning, legislation, monitoring, provisioning, wintering|

Using spatial and temporal variation to understand drivers of change

Global threats to grassland birds

By Christa Beckmann|2023-06-13T13:48:33+00:0019 Jun 2023|agriculture, biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, cerrado, climate change, grassland, grassland birds, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, IBIS, land management, land use|

What are the main threats to declining grassland birds?

The not-so-separate niches of spotted eagles

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-06-15T07:09:30+00:0015 Jun 2023|agriculture, competition, diet, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, niche overlap|

Drainage of wetlands might lead to the collapse of niche differentiation.

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?

Birds in cocoa farms: a sweet deal

By Crinan Jarrett|2023-01-08T13:11:03+00:002 Feb 2023|Africa, agriculture, biodiversity, community ecology, displacement, ecology, experiment, fieldwork, forest birds, invertebrates, population dynamics, tropical birds|

Birds and bats regulate pest populations in African cocoa farms

Ortolan Buntings prefer traditional agriculture

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-12-28T21:34:45+00:0029 Dec 2022|agriculture, bird movements, Farmland birds, geolocator, habitat selection, land management, overwintering|

In Ethiopia, these farmland birds mostly forage on traditionally managed fields.

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?

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