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Breeding Great Tits can be picky

By Marta Olivé Muñiz|2021-10-07T11:20:31+00:0011 Oct 2021|Breeding, breeding biology, cameras, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, forest birds, garden birds, nestling food, passerines, woodland birds|

Prey selection in breeding Great Tits is moderately consistent over years

Any way the wind blows

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-10-04T19:08:50+00:007 Oct 2021|behaviour, breeding biology, distribution, habitat selection, Seabirds|

Exploring the role of wind in the habitat choice of seabirds.

The secret sex lives of jackdaws

By Rebecca Hooper|2021-09-30T12:58:20+00:0030 Sep 2021|avian biology, behaviour, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, colonial birds, corvids, early-career researcher, ECR, extra pair paternity, genomics, reproduction|

Using the latest genomic tools to investigate jackdaw sexual behaviour

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

Long journey to the King Penguins

By Émile Brisson-Curadeau|2021-01-26T06:26:57+00:001 Feb 2021|BOU Warham Student, breeding biology, climate change, fieldwork, foraging, Seabirds|

Our third BOU John & Pat Warham Student, Émile Brisson-Curadeau, tells us about remote fieldwork at the Ratmanoff King Penguin colony

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.

A hard day’s night on the nest

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-22T16:39:06+00:008 Oct 2020|behaviour, breeding biology, eggs, nesting|

Conditions during the night determine nesting behavior in the morning.

How to save the Regent Honeyeater?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-09-23T09:52:28+00:0021 May 2020|breeding biology, Conservation, monitoring, News|

Survey points to habitat loss, low nesting success and a biased sex ratio as major threats

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

Highlights from the latest issue of IBIS

By Steve Dudley|2020-10-12T14:02:40+00:0017 Mar 2019|breeding biology, climate change, IBIS, Seabirds|

The editors' picks from our latest issue

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