birds of prey 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

Preventing eagles from hitting wind turbines

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-07-09T10:06:46+00:0013 Jul 2023|behaviour, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, collision risk, raptors, wind farms|

Which flight characteristics predict entry into rotor-swept zones?

What shapes Griffon Vultures’ social networks?

By Orr Spiegel|2023-06-13T22:32:49+00:0022 Jun 2023|behaviour, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, communication, flight, gps tags, movements, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Vultures’ social interactions across different situations matter for their population structure

The future of Harpy Eagle habitat

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-05-16T15:11:40+00:0018 May 2023|birds of prey, climate change, Conservation, distribution, occurrence data|

Different climate change scenarios predict a dramatic decline in range size.

Does increased density reduce reproduction?

By Rimgaudas Treinys|2023-01-23T12:14:04+00:0030 Jan 2023|birds of prey, Breeding, breeding biology, displacement, ecology, fieldwork, nesting, nesting success, nestlings, population dynamics, population structure, raptors, reproduction|

No support for decreased reproduction with a population increase in the White-tailed Eagle

How is climate change affecting Bearded Vulture ranges?

By Tulsi Subedi|2022-11-07T10:13:16+00:0010 Nov 2022|adaptation, Africa, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, climate, climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, habitat, Himalayan birds, IBIS, modelling, raptors, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Modelling Bearded Vulture distributions under various climate scenarios

Changes in societal attitudes towards wildlife in Spain

By Juan Jiménez|2022-11-03T12:52:42+00:007 Nov 2022|adult survival, bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, collision, illegal killing, mortality, owls, passerines, persecution, raptors, rehabilitation, road traffic, scavengers, survival, Urban birds, urbanization|

An assessment using admissions to wildlife recovery centres

Understanding the Success of the Scops Owl

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-10-28T11:49:20+00:003 Nov 2022|adult survival, agriculture, birds of prey, breeding success, demography, Farmland birds, habitat degradation, migration stopover, monitoring, overwintering, survival|

What factors determine population growth on a French island?

Why do migratory birds stop on ships?

By Maurizio Sarà|2022-09-07T12:11:32+00:0012 Sep 2022|adult survival, Africa, behaviour, bird movements, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, fieldwork, flight, IBIS, migrant, Migration, migration stopover, movements, non-breeding ecology, owls, passerines, raptors, soaring birds, survival, weather, wind|

Field observations by embarked ornithologists suggest new approaches in the study of migration

A migratory divide in the Far East

By Toru Nakahara|2022-08-19T10:59:14+00:0022 Aug 2022|bio-logging, bird movements, birds of prey, distribution, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, island birds, movement, movements, population structure, raptors, satellite tracking, soaring birds, Taxonomy|

Migration routes of the two Eastern Buzzard subspecies are separated along the Sea of Japan