climate change Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Baked eggs in a changing climate

By Simon C. Griffith|2021-08-17T18:59:54+00:0023 Aug 2021|arid zone, behaviour, climate change, eggs, nesting success|

Two species suffer catastrophic embryo mortality in recent heatwaves

Starlings defy climate change in new nestboxes

By John Flux|2021-08-09T15:38:56+00:0016 Aug 2021|cavity nesting, climate change, nesting, phenology|

Laying dates in New Zealand, no change. Denmark, yes. But new colonies get it wrong.

The rise of the Greater White-fronted Goose

By Jente Ottenburghs|2021-08-03T12:07:38+00:0015 Jul 2021|agriculture, climate change, population dynamics, sustainable hunting|

What factors explain the recent population increase in North America?

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

Hidden losses deep in Amazonia

By Vitek Jirinec|2021-01-19T10:36:05+00:0025 Jan 2021|climate change, diversity, endangered, forest birds, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, tropical birds|

Sensitive birds are disappearing from what should be intact rainforest

Climate change and birds: solutions to the crisis

By Katharine Bowgen|2020-12-22T14:58:56+00:0010 Dec 2020|BOU, climate change, Conferences, News|

A review of our first-ever virtual conference.

Climate change and food-hoarding behaviour: is the freezer still working?

By Giulia Masoero|2020-10-05T15:02:35+00:007 Sep 2020|birds of prey, climate change, food hoarding, forest birds, News, predator-prey interactions|

Climate change may melt Pygmy Owls’ “freezers” and reduce their overwinter survival

Climate change and shifting waterbird distributions

By Tony Fox|2020-10-11T10:51:27+00:005 Aug 2019|climate change, distribution, monitoring, waterbirds|

Climate-change driven waterbird distribution shifts challenges our monitoring mechanisms

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

Does the early bird get the seed?

By Heather Watts|2021-02-19T16:17:55+00:0029 Oct 2018|Breeding, climate change, phenology|

Does warming influence the timing of breeding in a seed-eater?