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How different is a subspecies?

By Cheryl Dykstra|2023-04-16T19:28:07+00:0024 Apr 2023|avian biology, DNA sequencing, fieldwork, gene flow, Genetics, population structure, raptors|

Researchers find genetic differences in a distinctive subspecies of a common raptor

Moult terminology

By Yosef Kiat|2023-01-27T14:17:09+00:006 Feb 2023|annual cycle, avian biology, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, IBIS, migrant, Migration, moult, passerines, People|

Let’s make it simpler!

The Hidden Past of the Macleay Kākāpō

By Lindsey Gray|2023-01-17T09:51:56+00:0016 Jan 2023|avian biology, forest birds, Genetics, island birds, museum collections, natural history, parrot, population divergence, Psittaciformes|

Can 21st century science decipher the murky origins of a collection of 19th century endangered parrots?

Split flight feathers moult

By Yosef Kiat|2022-12-21T12:02:34+00:009 Jan 2023|Africa, annual cycle, avian biology, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, IBIS, migrant, Migration, moult, passerines|

A response to time constraints during the main moult period

Genes of a feather flock together?

By Kurt Burnham|2022-12-18T10:58:09+00:002 Jan 2023|avian biology, bird assemblages, colonial birds, Genetics, global change, IBIS, island birds, phenotypic variation, physiology, population structure, puffins, Seabirds, Tundra, waterbirds|

An unexpected correlation between body size and subspecies designation within a single puffin colony in High Arctic Greenland. A result of climate change?

Revealing the Redleg’s Secrets

By Giovanni Forcina|2022-12-12T14:26:00+00:0022 Dec 2022|avian biology, climate change, disease, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, Farmland birds, Galliformes, game bird, Genetics, genomics, grassland birds, Science|

The whole genome marks a new era for the Red-legged Partridge

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

Through sickness and in health

By Olivia Hicks|2022-10-26T20:05:36+00:0027 Oct 2022|avian biology, biomonitoring, bird handling, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, penguins, physiology, Seabirds, stress|

How does handling time affect innate immune function in Adélie Penguins?

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?

Blue Manakins nest near “nest-like” structures

By Paulo Zima|2022-10-25T13:37:11+00:0017 Oct 2022|adaptation, avian biology, behaviour, Breeding, camouflage, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, evolution, forest birds, IBIS, Neotropics, nest predation, nesting material, nesting success, passerines, predation, predator-prey interactions, reproduction, tropical birds|

Could it be an anti-predatory strategy?