competition Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

‘The Boss’: factors explaining vocal activity and territorial behaviour

By Adrian Barrero Diego|2024-02-21T17:00:19+00:0019 Feb 2024|birds of conservation concern, competition, passerines, song, steppe birds|

Do intrasexual competition and resource availability modulate territorial displays in a steppe passerine?

The not-so-separate niches of spotted eagles

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-06-15T07:09:30+00:0015 Jun 2023|agriculture, competition, diet, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, niche overlap|

Drainage of wetlands might lead to the collapse of niche differentiation.

Can you hear me?

By Lauren Chronister|2023-03-31T16:59:45+00:003 Apr 2023|acoustic monitoring, bird song, citizen science, communications, community ecology, competition, data repository, IBIS, open source, song, sound, vocalisations|

Birds use clever strategies to communicate in crowds

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

What’s best to conserve UK seabirds?

By Bob Furness|2022-09-23T15:58:03+00:0026 Sep 2022|adult survival, biodiversity, bird assemblages, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, Breeding, competition, Conservation, IBIS, impact, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, Seabirds, waterbirds|

Designating colonies as Special Protection Areas is not enough

Maternal competitive events influence offspring phenotype

By América Hernández|2022-08-31T17:00:23+00:005 Sep 2022|avian biology, Breeding, breeding biology, cavity nesting, competition, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, eggs, experiment, IBIS, nest monitoring, nest-site limitation, passerines, phenotypic variation|

Compete with me and my progeny will grow faster

Risk-takers breed earlier

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-12-11T11:39:19+00:0016 Dec 2021|breeding biology, breeding success, competition, forest birds, islands, life history, personality|

But does early breeding also provide any benefits?

Pheasants in the mountains

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-07-01T07:12:23+00:001 Jul 2021|behaviour, camara traps, competition, habitat selection, niche overlap|

How can three pheasant species coexist on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?

Into the pine woods

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:37:15+00:0013 Aug 2020|competition, foraging, forest birds|

High group density results in fierce competition between groups of Red-cockaded Woodpecker.

Understanding competition between colonies helps to protect seabirds

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:39:47+00:0016 Jul 2020|Bird Protection, competition, Seabirds|

High levels of inter-colony competition can lead to segregation of foraging areas.