climate Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

What variable to choose?

By Krista N Oswald|2023-11-13T09:13:17+00:0013 Nov 2023|adaptation, Africa, climate, climate change, monitoring, physiology, reproduction|

Implications of variable choice when estimating vulnerability to climate change

Why do birds get smaller?

By Laura Bosco|2023-10-22T20:15:32+00:0023 Oct 2023|adaptation, annual cycle, antipredator behaviour, avian biology, citizen science, climate, climate change, monitoring, morphology, non-breeding ecology, volunteering, weather|

How long-term winter bird ringing unravels body size shrinking in response to climate change

Seeking shelter under the snow

By Amy Shipley|2023-04-17T17:37:08+00:0017 Apr 2023|adaptation, adult survival, annual cycle, behaviour, bio-logging, bird movements, climate, climate change, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, game bird, habitat selection, IBIS, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, temperature, thermal stress, winter|

The benefits of snow burrowing for a winter-adapted bird

How is climate change affecting Bearded Vulture ranges?

By Tulsi Subedi|2022-11-07T10:13:16+00:0010 Nov 2022|adaptation, Africa, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, climate, climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, habitat, Himalayan birds, IBIS, modelling, raptors, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Modelling Bearded Vulture distributions under various climate scenarios

Where the wind is just right

By Mia Momberg|2022-10-08T13:04:17+00:0010 Oct 2022|birds of conservation concern, Breeding, climate, flight, IBIS, island birds, nest-site limitation, nesting, reproduction, Seabirds, soaring birds, weather, wind|

Investigating the factors determining Wandering Albatross nest-site selection

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

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?

Wetland bird guilds respond to hurricanes

By Mateo Ruiz|2021-11-30T18:15:43+00:006 Dec 2021|bird communities, climate, Disturbance, global change, hurricanes, IBIS, natural disasters, Neotropics, populations, weather|

Changes follow when hurricane winds blow, but where and why?

Travelling between climates

By Raquel Ponti|2020-12-15T17:21:30+00:007 Oct 2019|climate, climatic niche, migrant, Migration, niche overlap|

Do migratory birds maintain climatic niches between seasons?