corvids Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Rock Art

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-10-17T00:11:50+00:0017 Oct 2025|bird-human interactions, corvids, game bird, herons, History of Ornithology, owls, raptors, vultures, waders|

Ancient paintings and etchings of birds on rocks

Cognition helps birds respond to man-made noise

By Grace Blackburn|2023-12-04T10:28:08+00:004 Dec 2023|corvids, Disturbance, early-career researcher|

Magpies with better cognitive performance cope better with anthropogenic noise

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?

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

Seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding corvids

By Mario B. Pesendorfer|2021-11-18T14:39:23+00:002 May 2016|behaviour, corvids, ecology, foraging, mutualism, scatter-hoarding, seed dispersal, woodland birds|

Mutualism with food-storing birds helps tree populations on the move