bird assemblages Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Can the CAP save Spanish farmland birds?

By Pablo Pérez Pozuelo|2025-02-16T20:59:17+00:0017 Feb 2025|agriculture, bird assemblages, People|

How policy gaps affect bird conservation

Are they lost?

By Paul Dufour|2025-02-16T17:06:24+00:0010 Feb 2025|bird assemblages, bird trapping, demography, migrant, vagrant birds|

Using age-ratio to investigate the status of two Siberian warblers in Europe

Birdsong and your wellbeing – what’s the deal?

By Natalia Zielonka|2024-10-20T07:17:10+00:007 Oct 2024|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, bird assemblages, bird song, bird-human interactions, early-career researcher|

Conserving bird populations can enhance natural soundscapes and our experience of nature

Birds in Fruit Farms

By Natalia Zielonka|2024-02-26T07:53:49+00:0026 Feb 2024|agriculture, bird assemblages, bird communities, bird-human interactions, foraging, forest birds, frugivory|

Fruit farms and forest fragments support distinct bird communities in the Brazilian Caatinga

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?