colonial birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Does eggshell phenotype act as an identity signal?

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-03-07T10:55:24+00:007 Mar 2024|brood parasitism, colonial birds, eggs, eggshell maculation, evolution, nest environment|

Sociality and nest environment linked to eggshell maculation in Hirundinidae

Genes of a feather flock together?

By Kurt Burnham|2022-12-18T10:58:09+00:002 Jan 2023|avian biology, bird assemblages, colonial birds, Genetics, global change, IBIS, island birds, phenotypic variation, physiology, population structure, puffins, Seabirds, Tundra, waterbirds|

An unexpected correlation between body size and subspecies designation within a single puffin colony in High Arctic Greenland. A result of climate change?

Does urban breeding influence gull foraging?

By Liam Langley|2022-10-27T16:18:10+00:0031 Oct 2022|adaptation, behaviour, bird movements, bird-human interactions, colonial birds, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, foraging, habitat selection, IBIS, movements, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tracking, Urban birds|

Urban and coastal breeding Lesser Black-backed Gulls segregate by foraging habitat

Nest uses across a changing environment

By Anthony Lowney|2022-06-10T14:24:20+00:0013 Jun 2022|Africa, arid zone, behaviour, bird communities, Breeding, camara traps, colonial birds, communal, community ecology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, nesting, passerines|

Sociable Weaver colonies maintain local biodiversity in harsher environments

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?

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

Painted Stork nesting dangerously low

By Abdul Jamil Urfi|2021-07-09T12:14:42+00:005 Jul 2021|bird-human interactions, colonial birds, nest monitoring, nesting, nesting success|

Is people’s protective attitude really a factor at Kokkare Bellur (South India)?

Does your neighbourhood make you stressed?

By Diane Colombelli-Negrel|2021-04-23T08:58:09+00:0026 Apr 2021|bird-human interactions, colonial birds, Disturbance, physiology, predation, Seabirds, sound|

Little Penguins living in different environments differ in their response to stressors

Rice fields lose value as a feeding area for colonial waterbirds

By María Antón-Tello|2021-04-06T17:25:29+00:0012 Apr 2021|colonial birds, diet, diet composition, isotopes, niche overlap, waterbirds, wetlands|

Diet convergence of several species of waterbirds in prey with low energy content

The rise of the Inca Empire was partly driven by seabird guano

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:34:51+00:0027 Aug 2020|Bird Protection, colonial birds, Conservation, News, Seabirds|

The Incas implemented the first conservation measures in human history to protect the seabird colonies that provided the guano.