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Harris’s Hawk flying for science (and treats)

By Tessa van Walsum|2020-10-12T15:39:06+00:004 Mar 2019|acceleration, birds of prey, flight, News|

Using accelerometry to calculate energetic costs of flying Harris’s Hawks

The heat is on for British birds

By James Pearce-Higgins|2021-04-22T13:04:59+00:006 Dec 2017|biodiversity, bird communities, bird movements, Bird Protection, Breeding, Breeding Bird Survey, climate change, distribution, ecology, habitat, Migration, monitoring, Nest Record Scheme, News, phenology, population dynamics, survey, Wetland Bird Survey|

What is the evidence for climate change? How will UK bird communities adapt?

The march of the triffids

By T. R. Shankar Raman|2021-11-16T13:30:11+00:008 Aug 2016|agriculture, biodiversity, bird communities, connectivity, Conservation, forest birds, habitat, land management, land use, tropical birds|

Shifting agriculture supports more rainforest birds than oil palm or teak monocultures.

Figurehead bird conservation – wider biodiversity benefits?

By Robert Hawkes|2021-11-26T14:19:49+00:0022 Feb 2016|biodiversity, Conservation, grass heath, grassland, habitat|

Will creating Stone-curlew habitat benefit rare plants and invertebrates?

Birdfields

By Almut Schlaich|2021-11-26T15:43:12+00:002 Nov 2015|biodiversity, bird communities, Breeding, Conferences, Farmland birds, foraging, habitat, raptors, Science, tracking|

Improving foraging conditions for Montagu’s Harriers

Mark My Bird: understanding the evolution of birds and bills

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

Why birds diversified