bird assemblages Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Birds as monitors of ecosystem management

By Darren O’Connell|2023-10-12T10:43:36+00:0028 Sep 2023|bioacoustics, biomonitoring, bird assemblages, BOU members, BOU-funded, experiment, habitat, monitoring, upland birds|

Using soundscapes to assess the impacts of livestock grazing pressure on upland avian biodiversity and phenology

Disentangling ecological networks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-07-15T09:48:56+00:0027 Jul 2023|bird assemblages, ecology, frugivory, mutualism, species interactions|

Which species are most important for the stability of a network?

Doves of a feather flock together

By Will Smith|2023-04-12T10:20:50+00:0013 Apr 2023|bird assemblages, citizen science, colouration, connectivity, distribution, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, fieldwork, Genetics, hybridization, hybrids, IBIS, island birds, plumage, population structure, range expansion|

Can we distinguish Rock Doves from feral pigeons using plumage?

The rise of passive acoustic monitoring

By Oliver Metcalf|2023-03-17T11:39:46+00:0020 Mar 2023|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, biodiversity, bird assemblages, diversity, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, habitat restoration, impact assessment, monitoring, passive acoustic monitoring, populations, recording, song, vocalisations|

Using passive acoustic monitoring for surveying birds in the UK

If a bird calls in the forest…

By Brandon Edwards|2023-02-21T10:43:49+00:0027 Feb 2023|biomonitoring, bird assemblages, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, modelling, monitoring, populations|

A collaborative effort to estimate detection probabilities for all North American landbirds

Genes of a feather flock together?

By Kurt Burnham|2022-12-18T10:58:09+00:002 Jan 2023|avian biology, bird assemblages, colonial birds, Genetics, global change, IBIS, island birds, phenotypic variation, physiology, population structure, puffins, Seabirds, Tundra, waterbirds|

An unexpected correlation between body size and subspecies designation within a single puffin colony in High Arctic Greenland. A result of climate change?

Gardens as conservation tools

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-10-16T12:45:19+00:0020 Oct 2022|bird assemblages, bird-human interactions, cameras, Conservation, foraging, garden feeding, hummingbirds, morphology, species interactions, tropical birds|

Human-provided resources can benefit hummingbirds and plants in Colombia.

What’s best to conserve UK seabirds?

By Bob Furness|2022-09-23T15:58:03+00:0026 Sep 2022|adult survival, biodiversity, bird assemblages, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, Breeding, competition, Conservation, IBIS, impact, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, Seabirds, waterbirds|

Designating colonies as Special Protection Areas is not enough

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.