BOU-funded Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Rapid morphological evolution on remote islands

By Chentao Wei|2021-07-15T18:47:32+00:0022 Jul 2021|BOU-funded, evolution, genetic diversity, Genetics, island birds, morphology, phylogeny, population divergence, Taxonomy|

Resolving the taxonomic status of an island dwarfism warbler population

Desert birds don’t wait for rain

By Amanda Bourne|2021-07-08T14:36:58+00:0012 Jul 2021|behaviour, BOU-funded, breeding biology, cooperative breeding, diet, diet composition, foraging, stable isotopes|

Southern Pied Babblers in the Kalahari start breeding before rainfall

BOU supports student-led research

By William Feeney|2021-06-18T13:44:48+00:0024 Jun 2021|behaviour, BOU-funded, brood parasitism, nesting|

BOU funding supports new ornithological discoveries by student researchers

From PenguinWatch to PetrelWatch!

By Kirsty Franklin|2021-01-04T16:54:14+00:0021 Dec 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, citizen science, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

If you have ever wanted to visit an Indian Ocean seabird colony, here is a chance to do so – albeit remotely.

Round Island fieldwork

By Kirsty Franklin|2020-10-07T08:08:01+00:0020 Feb 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

Warham PhD Student Kirsty Franklin, tells us about her first field season in the Indian Ocean

From EOU2019

By Pablo Salmon|2020-10-07T11:07:04+00:002 Jan 2020|BOU, BOU members, BOU-funded, Conferences, News, sciblogging, scicomm, science blogging, science communication|

EOU2019 was an inspiring conference with a broad programme

From EOU2019

By Caitlin Higgott|2020-12-15T15:05:07+00:0028 Dec 2019|BOU members, BOU-funded, Conferences, News, scicomm, science blogging, science communication|

This came at a perfect time to allow me to share my research findings

From EOU2019

By Koosje Lamers|2020-12-15T15:07:42+00:0021 Dec 2019|BOU members, BOU-funded, Conferences, News, scicomm, science blogging, science communication|

A wonderful chance to share my findings with the world of ornithology

In the footsteps of John Warham

By Paige Green|2020-12-15T15:04:05+00:0019 Dec 2019|BOU, BOU members, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, News, sciblogging, scicomm, Science, science blogging, science communication|

The second BOU John & Pat Warham Studentship

Darwin’s finches adapting to human influences

By Kiyoko Gotanda|2020-12-15T16:59:27+00:009 Dec 2019|antipredator behaviour, behaviour, BOU-funded, invasive predators, island birds, urbanization|

Can Darwin’s finches adapt to invasive predators and urbanization?