bird communities Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Nesting on the edge

By Jente Ottenburghs|2020-12-15T12:46:32+00:0027 Feb 2020|bird communities, Breeding, eggs, experiment, nesting, News|

Experimental study explores predation rates on nests along forest edges.

Understanding the role of large raptors in modified ecosystems

By Julien Terraube|2021-03-10T15:25:06+00:0014 May 2018|bird communities, birds of prey, ecology, predation, raptors|

Influence of large raptors on other predator species

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 Steve Dudley|2016-08-08T07:30:00+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.

The riddle of elevation for tropical birds

By Steve Dudley|2020-09-22T13:41:04+00:0030 May 2016|bird communities, bird song, cloud forest, competition, distribution, song, tropical birds|

Does interspecific aggression influence elevational limits in closely related species that replace one another along the elevational gradient?

The hatching of a long-term nest study

By Steve Dudley|2016-02-15T07:30:32+00:0015 Feb 2016|bird communities, Breeding, Community, Conservation, crowd-sourcing, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fledgling survival, moorland birds, nest recording, nesting, Science, survival, tracking, volunteering|

Crowdfunded ornithology

Living close, doing differently

By Steve Dudley|2016-01-11T07:30:14+00:0011 Jan 2016|bird communities, Breeding, colour ringing/banding, Science, Seabirds, tracking, winter, wintering|

Breeding and wintering Mediterranean Gulls do not mix

New insights into the effects of climate change on Europe’s breeding birds

By Steve Dudley|2020-09-22T13:36:26+00:007 Dec 2015|adaptation, bird communities, Breeding, climate change, ecology, migrant, phenology, Science|

Effects of changing seasonal weather conditions

Birdfields

By Almut Schlaich|2020-10-13T11:20:26+00:002 Nov 2015|biodiversity, bird communities, Breeding, Conferences, Farmland birds, foraging, habitat, raptors, Science, tracking|

Improving foraging conditions for Montagu’s Harriers

Nesting in the muck

By Steve Dudley|2015-10-26T07:30:25+00:0026 Oct 2015|behaviour, bird communities, Breeding, habitat, Science|

Black Larks' love for dung