Breeding Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Unexpected aspects of human-wildlife interactions

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-06-27T14:00:46+00:0027 Jun 2024|anthropogenic habitats, Breeding, gps tags, home range, land-cover association, movement, non-breeding ecology|

Predictable intra-annual variation but unexpected anthropogenic habitat response in Ferruginous Hawk movement behaviour

Black-eyed Birds

By Jude Lane|2024-02-12T11:20:32+00:0012 Feb 2024|adult survival, birds of conservation concern, Breeding, colouration, disease, infectious diseases|

A new way to monitor impact of avian influenza in Gannets?

One’s Trash is Another’s Treasure

By Zoey Greenberg|2024-01-29T13:13:58+00:0029 Jan 2024|adult survival, anthropogenic food sources, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Breeding, Conservation, global change, monitoring, vultures|

Landfill sites in Chile support Andean Condors

Penguins in the pandemic

By Clare Flynn|2023-12-18T11:34:15+00:0025 Dec 2023|bird-human interactions, Breeding, distribution, Disturbance, penguins|

Gentoo penguins change nesting sites during COVID-19 closures

Sex roles and sex ratios

By Tamás Székely|2023-11-20T09:31:54+00:0020 Nov 2023|Breeding, breeding biology, reproduction, sexual dimorphism, shorebirds|

What do shorebirds teach us about the evolution of breeding systems?

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

Breeding ecology of a critically endangered macaw

By Tom Lewis|2023-09-04T19:00:52+00:004 Sep 2023|birds of conservation concern, Breeding, breeding biology, breeding success, Conservation, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, IBIS, Neotropics, nest predation, nesting, Psittaciformes, urbanization|

Combining nest-site selection and reproductive success to inform conservation

How does weather affect songbirds?

By Michael McCloy|2023-08-01T11:11:32+00:007 Aug 2023|avian biology, Breeding, breeding biology, breeding success, passerines|

Analysing avian body condition across the southeastern United States

Clutch size increases with latitude

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-06-28T14:39:11+00:0029 Jun 2023|Breeding, eggs, life history, nest predation, parental care|

But what about the size of the eggs?

Male dotterels take the night shift

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-04-19T14:46:22+00:0020 Apr 2023|behaviour, bio-logging, Breeding, incubation, nest recording, parental care, thermoregulation|

Why do males spend more time on the nest at night?

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