communication Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

To leave or to stay home?

By Roni Ostreiher|2025-11-08T16:11:41+00:0010 Nov 2025|behaviour, communication, IBIS, territoriality|

Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird

Keep it down!

By Ashleigh Marshall|2025-08-07T00:37:02+00:007 Aug 2025|acoustic space, anthropogenic, begging, communication, nest environment, noise, noise pollution, parental care, signal, urbanization|

Anthropogenic noise may have stronger impacts on begging calls at certain points of Blue Tit nestling development

Birds and people: we need to explore further

By Barry McMahon|2023-08-22T10:29:10+00:0028 Aug 2023|bird-human interactions, collaboration, communication, Conservation, IBIS, Urban birds, urbanization|

From conflict to coexistence

Do crossbill calls change over time?

By Ralph Martin|2023-08-07T17:41:54+00:0014 Aug 2023|acoustic monitoring, avian biology, behaviour, bioacoustics, communication, passerines, song|

Covering 58 years of crossbill recordings

Are long tails all about sex?

By Wenyi Zhou|2023-06-19T17:22:26+00:0026 Jun 2023|adaptation, avian biology, behaviour, communication, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, feathers, IBIS, passerines, phenotypic variation, plumage|

A review of functions of avian elongated tails

What shapes Griffon Vultures’ social networks?

By Orr Spiegel|2023-06-13T22:32:49+00:0022 Jun 2023|behaviour, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, communication, flight, gps tags, movements, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Vultures’ social interactions across different situations matter for their population structure

Squeaking shorebird chicks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-05-31T07:56:30+00:001 Jun 2023|breeding biology, communication, fledglings, nest recording, parental care, shorebirds, vocalisations|

How do vocal traits of plovers and lapwings change with age?

Can magpies tell friend from foe?

By Grace Blackburn|2022-11-28T11:42:26+00:005 Dec 2022|behaviour, bird communities, communal, communication, communications, corvids, early-career researcher, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, IBIS, personality, population dynamics, population structure, sound, territoriality, vocalisations|

Can Western Australian Magpies distinguish between songs of groupmates and non-groupmates?

How do urban birds settle fights under noise?

By Çağla Önsal (she/her)|2022-10-08T14:43:57+00:0013 Oct 2022|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bird song, communication, competition, Disturbance, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, garden birds, habitat, noise pollution, passerines, sensory ecology, song, sound|

Loud cities reshape communication and aggressive behaviour in European Robins

Sex-condition interaction affects Greater Flamingo colouration

By Miguel Rendón|2022-09-09T16:59:56+00:0015 Sep 2022|avian biology, Breeding, breeding biology, communication, diet, ecology, feathers, fieldwork, nutrition, parental care, plumage, waders, waterbirds|

Why are female flamingos more colourful than males?