cooperative breeding Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Can squatters bring benefits?

By Anthony Lowney|2024-04-08T10:41:36+00:008 Apr 2024|antipredator behaviour, behaviour, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, breeding biology, cooperative breeding, nest monitoring, predation, predator-prey interactions|

Can predator and prey benefit from being neighbours?

Disentangeling cooperative breeding in a Neotropical passerine

By Juan Manuel Rojas Ripari|2022-09-18T09:56:05+00:0019 Sep 2022|breeding biology, cooperative breeding, fieldwork, Genetics, genomics, Neotropics, parental care, passerines|

Use of genomic tools to describe relatedness patterns within Greyish Baywing cooperative groups

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?

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 Kin-Lan Han|2021-11-16T14:22:00+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?