bird song Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Vocal differences in Acorn Woodpeckers

By José de Jesús Zazueta-Algara|2022-05-23T07:41:34+00:0023 May 2022|acoustic monitoring, adaptation, avian biology, bioacoustics, bird song, citizen science, communications, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, Neotropics, population dynamics, song, tropical birds, vocalisations, vocalizations|

Structure and divergence of vocal traits in the Acorn Woodpecker

Dancing after sex

By Anastasia Dalziell|2022-03-25T17:20:21+00:0028 Mar 2022|behaviour, bird song, breeding biology, communication, IBIS, mate selection, pair communications, passerines, plumage, reproductive signalling, sensory ecology, tropical birds, vocalisations|

Male Superb Lyrebirds perform a bizarre audio-visual display, after copulation

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.

Song variation across Neotropical gradients

By Edvaldo F. Silva-Jr|2021-11-15T10:33:02+00:0011 Nov 2021|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bioacoustics, bird song, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, Neotropics, passerines|

Blue-black Grassquit song varies with latitude, climate and species richness

Does human routine alter bird behaviour?

By Edvaldo F. Silva-Jr|2021-06-04T08:57:12+00:007 Jun 2021|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bird song, bird-human interactions, Disturbance, noise pollution, road traffic, song, Urban birds|

Rufous Horneros behave equally during weekly cycles of human activity

How did the Iberá Seedeater form?

By Sheela Turbek|2021-03-27T12:30:40+00:001 Apr 2021|bird song, grassland birds, plumage, Speciation|

Novel plumage produced through genome reshuffling generates a new species

The sound of birds in a world of noise

By Hannah Vincelette|2021-02-12T10:58:33+00:0018 Feb 2021|acoustic monitoring, bird song, Disturbance, noise, noise pollution, protected areas, vocal activity|

Acoustic monitoring enlightens aircraft noise impacts on remote bird communities

Birds facing increasing anthropogenic noise

By Adrián Barrero Diego|2021-01-06T08:34:12+00:0011 Jan 2021|agriculture, bird song, Disturbance, Farmland birds, Little Bustard, noise pollution, road traffic|

Can a non-passerine bird adjust its song according to noise?

Dear enemies or nasty neighbours? Same difference

By Javier Oñate Casado|2020-12-15T12:38:12+00:0013 Jul 2020|bird song, song, tropical birds|

How do male Hawaii 'Elepaio respond to conspecific playbacks from different habitat fragments?

Singing the right song

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:48:28+00:0030 Jan 2020|behaviour, bird song, News, territoriality, vocalizations|

Rufous-capped Warblers adjust their songs to the social context.