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Nest uses across a changing environment

By Anthony Lowney|2022-06-10T14:24:20+00:0013 Jun 2022|Africa, arid zone, behaviour, bird communities, Breeding, camara traps, colonial birds, communal, community ecology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, nesting, passerines|

Sociable Weaver colonies maintain local biodiversity in harsher environments

Eagles vs. power lines: attraction or avoidance?

By Ana Teresa Marques|2022-06-01T10:16:51+00:0030 May 2022|behaviour, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, collision risk, gps tags, movements, raptors, satellite tracking, soaring birds|

Do power lines affect space use by Bonelli’s Eagles?

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.

Same strategy as last year?

By Kirsty Franklin|2022-04-27T20:49:48+00:002 May 2022|behaviour, bird movements, BOU Warham Student, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, islands birds, Migration, movements, phenology, Round Island petrel, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tropical birds|

Tropical seabirds show high consistency of migratory behaviours despite often weak seasonal predictability of resources

The migration of the Canarian Houbara Bustard

By Inmaculada Abril-Colón|2022-04-21T10:11:43+00:0025 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, land use, Migration, movements, nocturnal birds, protected areas, satellite tracking, short-distance migration|

Short-distance nocturnal migration in an island endemic bustard

Nest-switching Storks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-15T09:02:32+00:0021 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, Breeding, displacement, Genetics, gps tags, movement, nest monitoring, nestlings, occurrence data, population dynamics, ringing, tracking|

What is the best method to quantify the frequency of nest-switching?

Capercaillies and climate change

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-04T14:10:19+00:007 Apr 2022|annual cycle, behaviour, Breeding, breeding success, climate change, forest birds, Galliformes, phenology, reproduction, temperature|

Earlier lekking activities enable these birds to cope with changing weather patterns.

Dancing after sex

By Anastasia Dalziell|2022-03-25T17:20:21+00:0028 Mar 2022|behaviour, bird song, breeding biology, communication, IBIS, mate selection, pair communications, passerines, plumage, reproductive signalling, sensory ecology, tropical birds, vocalisations|

Male Superb Lyrebirds perform a bizarre audio-visual display, after copulation

Hide and creep

By Juho Jolkkonen|2022-02-28T10:02:57+00:0028 Feb 2022|adaptation, antipredator behaviour, avian biology, behaviour, camouflage, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, fieldwork, habitat selection, IBIS, passerines, plumage, selection, woodland birds|

The Eurasian Treecreeper is well camouflaged – or is it?

Oystercatchers avoid a disturbed, high tide roost

By Henk-Jan van der Kolk|2022-02-21T10:32:08+00:0021 Feb 2022|behaviour, bio-logging, bird-human interactions, Disturbance, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, gps tags, IBIS, movements, satellite tracking, shorebirds, waders|

High levels of tourism correlate with roost site avoidance

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