cooperative breeding Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Desert birds don’t wait for rain

By Amanda Bourne|2021-07-08T14:36:58+00:0012 Jul 2021|behaviour, BOU-funded, breeding biology, cooperative breeding, diet, diet composition, foraging, stable isotopes|

Southern Pied Babblers in the Kalahari start breeding before rainfall

Nesting in a degraded cloud forest

By Dries Van de Loock|2020-10-11T20:49:10+00:0029 Apr 2019|cooperative breeding, forest birds, habitat degradation, nest predation, nesting, tropical birds|

Placid Greenbuls show flexible nesting behaviour in a degraded cloud forest

Sex can’t help you when it’s hot

By Amanda Bourne|2021-06-25T09:15:21+00:008 Oct 2018|BOU-funded, cooperative breeding, Grants Committee, heat, News, temperature|

High temperatures suppress growth equally in male and female Southern Pied Babbler nestlings

The secret sex life of the Brown-headed Nuthatch

By Steve Dudley|2016-06-27T07:30:30+00:0027 Jun 2016|Breeding, cooperative breeding, extra pair paternity, forest birds, Genetics, parental care|

Is there extra-pair paternity in the cooperatively breeding Brown-headed Nuthatch?