behaviour Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Partners Beyond Breeding

By Frigg Speelman|2025-11-26T21:48:04+00:001 Dec 2025|behaviour, Breeding, breeding tactics, pair-bond|

Pair-bonded Chirruping Wedgebills spend lots of time together; but they’re closer after breeding than during breeding

To leave or to stay home?

By Roni Ostreiher|2025-11-08T16:11:41+00:0010 Nov 2025|behaviour, communication, IBIS, territoriality|

Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird

The Swedish Game

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-03-19T23:19:09+00:0020 Mar 2025|behaviour, bird trapping, game bird, History of Ornithology|

A lek is a mating game where males display close together to attract females

More than maps

By Steffen Oppel|2024-10-21T13:31:20+00:0021 Oct 2024|anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bio-logging, Breeding, tracking|

Extracting demographic information from bird tracking data

Armed Conflicts and Raptors

By Charlie Russell|2024-07-01T10:16:47+00:0027 May 2024|annual cycle, antipredator behaviour, behaviour, bird movements, bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Migration, migration stopover, movements, satellite tracking, war|

How were Greater Spotted Eagles affected by the conflict in Ukraine?

Monitoring wader breeding productivity

By David Jarrett|2024-05-01T10:45:02+00:0015 Apr 2024|behaviour, bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, breeding success, waders|

Reviewing different fieldwork approaches

Can squatters bring benefits?

By Anthony Lowney|2024-04-08T10:41:36+00:008 Apr 2024|antipredator behaviour, behaviour, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, breeding biology, cooperative breeding, nest monitoring, predation, predator-prey interactions|

Can predator and prey benefit from being neighbours?

Travel wide, breed hard and die young

By John Calladine|2024-04-26T14:25:38+00:001 Apr 2024|annual cycle, behaviour, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Migration, migration stopover, movements, satellite tracking|

While this might well describe some hedonistic lifestyle of a 1970s rock star, it is also a neat summary of the life history strategy for Short-eared Owls.

The first migration of Icelandic Whimbrel

By Camilo Carneiro|2023-11-06T09:02:38+00:006 Nov 2023|annual cycle, behaviour, bird movements, creative writing, gps tags, Migration|

How do 60 day old whimbrels reach their wintering sites?

The call of the Striped Cuckoo

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-10-27T13:57:52+00:002 Nov 2023|acoustic monitoring, annual cycle, behaviour, breeding biology, Cuckoos, mate selection, passive acoustic monitoring, song, vocalisations|

This species uses two vocalisations for different purposes.