Bird Protection Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Critically Endangered vulture shows resilience

By Zoey Greenberg|2023-10-12T10:44:41+00:0025 Sep 2023|Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Breeding, breeding success, Conservation, global change, monitoring, protected areas, vultures|

Eleven years of successful nesting suggest protective measures work

Global threats to grassland birds

By Christa Beckmann|2023-06-13T13:48:33+00:0019 Jun 2023|agriculture, biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, cerrado, climate change, grassland, grassland birds, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, IBIS, land management, land use|

What are the main threats to declining grassland birds?

Turtle Doves under threat

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-04-06T10:34:29+00:006 Apr 2023|adult survival, agriculture, Bird Protection, Farmland birds, habitat degradation, illegal killing, infectious diseases, life history, Migration, population dynamics|

What causes the dramatic decline of this species?

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

Saving the Alpine Ring Ouzel

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-09-02T09:55:21+00:008 Sep 2022|alpine birds, Bird Protection, climate change, distribution, grassland, habitat degradation, habitat selection, occupancy, weather|

Uncovering the drivers of population decline in Germany.

Protecting waders through wetland conservation

By Sean Jellesmark|2022-08-01T14:25:18+00:004 Aug 2022|biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of conservation concern, breeding success, Conservation, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, grassland, habitat restoration, IBIS, impact assessment, land management, marsh birds, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, RSPB science, waders, wetlands|

What works, what does not, and how do we know?

Tracking conservation conflicts

By Jeremy Cusack|2022-02-15T11:55:58+00:007 Feb 2022|Bird Protection, bird-human interactions, Conservation, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, land management, People, persecution, threatened species|

Tracking the escalation and de-escalation of conservation conflicts

The ups and downs of the Common Eider

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-10-04T19:10:56+00:0023 Sep 2021|Bird Protection, demography, mark‐recapture, population dynamics, Seabirds, survival|

An extensive mark-recapture study reports high survival rates for Icelandic birds.

Hyacinth Macaw conservation in the Brazilian Pantanal

By Maxwell R. Oliveira|2021-08-03T12:05:44+00:0019 Jul 2021|Bird Protection, cavity nesting, distribution, endangered, grassland, parrot, population structure, protected areas, threatened species, wetlands|

Habitat loss and lack of protected areas threaten the iconic Hyacinth Macaw

How do Darwin’s finches cope with parasites?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-07-09T11:31:08+00:0017 Jun 2021|Bird Protection, foraging, nestling food, parasitism|

A recent study tested the parental food compensation hypothesis.