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Sedentary or migratory?

By Jorge García-Macía|2022-07-27T16:23:18+00:0025 Jul 2022|Breeding, breeding biology, Migration, migratory connectivity, movement, plasticity, raptors, wintering|

Recent studies reveal a huge variability in birds’ strategies

Do bird populations respond differently to climate change?

By Liam D. Bailey|2022-06-30T14:43:46+00:004 Jul 2022|adaptation, avian biology, behaviour, Breeding, breeding biology, climate, climate change, collaboration, ecology, eggs, forest birds, nesting, passerines, phenology, population dynamics, reproduction, temperature, woodland birds|

Birds in deciduous habitats are more sensitive to temperature change

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

Bird odour: camouflage or communication?

By Marc Gilles|2022-03-08T18:25:16+00:0014 Mar 2022|avian biology, breeding biology, camouflage, communication, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, incubation, nest predation, nesting success, pair communications, physiology, plumage, reproductive signalling, smell|

Investigating the olfactory functions of preen oil in birds

Surviving in the colonies

By Guy Beauchamp|2022-02-18T09:35:06+00:0017 Feb 2022|bird communities, breeding biology, colonial birds, communal, cooperative breeding, ecology, IBIS, island birds, life history, longevity, parental care, scavengers, Seabirds|

How does breeding in colonies influence annual survival in birds?

A warbler’s choice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-01-10T14:42:34+00:0013 Jan 2022|acoustic monitoring, breeding biology, communication, experiment, habitat selection, sound, territoriality|

How do Black-and-white Warblers select a breeding location?

Growing up in a warming Arctic

By Thomas Lameris|2022-01-04T17:36:52+00:0010 Jan 2022|breeding biology, camouflage, climate, climate change, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, fieldwork, global change, invertebrates, migrant, nestling growth, phenology, reproduction, shorebirds, Tundra, waders|

How do shorebird chicks cope with less food and increasing temperatures?

Cheating Red-footed Falcons

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-12-28T16:32:07+00:0030 Dec 2021|birds of prey, breeding biology, extra pair paternity, nest monitoring, raptors|

Researchers count the number of extra-pair offspring in this falcon species.

Risk-takers breed earlier

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-12-11T11:39:19+00:0016 Dec 2021|breeding biology, breeding success, competition, forest birds, islands, life history, personality|

But does early breeding also provide any benefits?

Disappearing tongue spots in Dunnock nestlings

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-11-30T10:24:33+00:002 Dec 2021|behaviour, breeding biology, monogamy, nestling provisioning, nestlings, parental care|

What could be the function of these peculiar markings?

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