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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?

The nightly call of the tinamou

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-10-30T11:31:25+00:004 Nov 2021|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, breeding biology, communication, habitat, nocturnal birds, territoriality|

Why does the Undulated Tinamou call at night?

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.

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