bird assemblages Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Competition for food in artificial mixed colonies

By João Gameiro|2022-04-15T11:26:17+00:0018 Apr 2022|adaptation, bird assemblages, bird communities, communal, community ecology, diet, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, nest monitoring, nesting, nestlings, niche overlap, population structure, stable isotopes|

Do birds in artificial mixed colonies overlap in their diet?

The ecology of avian blood parasites

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-03-19T13:17:00+00:0024 Mar 2022|avian malaria, bird assemblages, disease, forest birds, Himalayan birds, parasites|

Mapping the distribution of parasites across Himalayan bird species.

Urban raptors are small(-ish) generalists

By Daniel S. Cooper|2022-03-20T16:13:14+00:0021 Mar 2022|adaptation, bird assemblages, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, citizen science, ecology, IBIS, modelling, occurrence data, open source, plumage, population structure, raptors|

Community science data from cities on multiple continents reveal size and ecological traits that correspond to urban abundance

Causes of farmland bird declines revised

By Zuzanna Rosin|2021-11-30T18:02:58+00:0029 Nov 2021|agriculture, biodiversity, bird assemblages, bird communities, bird-human interactions, Conservation, Farmland birds, habitat degradation, land management, land use|

Rural settlement modernisation may harm birds more than agricultural intensification

The changing sounds of spring

By Catriona Morrison|2021-11-15T10:32:04+00:0015 Nov 2021|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, biodiversity, bird assemblages, bird communities, bird song, citizen science, communication, community ecology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, passerines, sound, vocalisations|

Citizen science data reveals a decline in the quality of soundscapes across two continents.

Artificial nests reshape a bird community

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:43:25+00:007 May 2020|behaviour, bird assemblages, nest predation, News, raptors|

Adding nesting-sites for Lesser Kestrels influences interactions with other bird species.

Comparing methodologies for avian monitoring

By Renata Duarte Alquezar|2021-11-16T14:31:40+00:0013 Jun 2016|bird assemblages, bird song, cerrado, monitoring, recording, survey|

Can automatic recorders facilitate field research and improve avian monitoring?

Ghost robins in the New Guinean cloud forest

By Benjamin Freeman|2021-11-26T15:36:56+00:0016 Nov 2015|bird assemblages, competition, forest birds, habitat, Science|

Twos company?

Do non-native birds compete or coexist with native species?

By Martin Sullivan|2021-12-02T11:02:51+00:0019 Oct 2015|bird assemblages, bird communities, competition, Science|

Friend or foe?

Bird song – it’s complicated

By Pratap Singh|2021-12-02T13:23:18+00:0013 Jul 2015|behaviour, bird assemblages, bird communities, News, song|

Birds sing more complex songs in simpler communities