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Sensitive females and costly males

By Anouk Spelt|2021-08-20T07:47:28+00:0020 Mar 2017|behaviour, fledglings, Seabirds|

Are female African penguins more vulnerable than males?

Nest building in a changing climate

By Mark Mainwaring|2021-08-27T15:53:33+00:0027 Feb 2017|adaptation, behaviour, climate change, nesting, phenology|

Predicting the effects of climate change on the nesting behaviour of birds and other animals

Seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding corvids

By Mario B. Pesendorfer|2021-11-18T14:39:23+00:002 May 2016|behaviour, corvids, ecology, foraging, mutualism, scatter-hoarding, seed dispersal, woodland birds|

Mutualism with food-storing birds helps tree populations on the move

Broadbills sing with their wings

By Alex Kirschel|2021-11-18T14:43:24+00:0025 Apr 2016|behaviour, bird song, communications, display, non-vocal communication, song, sound|

How do Broadbills produce that loud mechanical sound while displaying?

What do Great Tit pairs talk about?

By Ingrid Boucaud|2021-11-18T14:47:36+00:0018 Apr 2016|behaviour, Breeding, communications, nesting, pair communications, parental care|

Great tit pairs discuss at the nest during breeding, but why?

Avian camouflage really does hinder predators

By Martin Stevens|2021-11-26T14:06:47+00:007 Mar 2016|adaptation, behaviour, Breeding, camouflage, cryptic, eggs, evolution, habitat|

Camouflage does protect nesting birds from being eaten

The plight of the Egyptian Vulture . . .

By Mohamed Amezian|2021-11-26T14:44:04+00:0025 Jan 2016|behaviour, Bird Protection, Breeding, communal, Conservation, Disturbance, endangered, nesting, population dynamics, raptors, roost, Science|

. . . and hopes for the future

Nesting in the muck

By Johannes Kamp|2021-12-02T10:55:58+00:0026 Oct 2015|behaviour, bird communities, Breeding, habitat, Science|

Black Larks' love for dung

Puffins have an eye for small fry

By Graham R. Martin|2021-12-02T11:11:18+00:005 Oct 2015|adaptation, behaviour, evolution, foraging, Science, Seabirds|

Visual fields in auks

Mark My Bird: understanding the evolution of birds and bills

By Steve Dudley (he/him)|2021-12-02T11:23:29+00:0021 Sep 2015|adaptation, behaviour, biodiversity, crowd-sourcing, diversification, evolution, morphology, Science|

Why birds diversified

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