diet composition Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Pollen: a useful ornithological research tool?

By Anne Goodenough & Julia Webb|2025-02-25T07:00:40+00:0024 Feb 2025|bird movements, diet, diet composition, population dynamics|

Pollen analysis can advance avian research and inform conservation strategies

Strength in colours?

By Ashleigh Marshall|2025-02-02T00:42:49+00:006 Feb 2025|biliverdin, diet, diet composition, eggs, pigmentation, protoporphyrin, structural-function hypothesis, Uncategorized|

Partial support for a structural function for eggshell pigments in unspotted eggs of a calcium-limited bird

Destygmatising Drones

By Zoey Greenberg|2025-01-06T19:55:35+00:006 Jan 2025|adult survival, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, diet, diet composition, Migration, migration stopover|

How they can aid ornithologists around the world

How Amur Falcons Cross the Arabian Sea

By Zoey Greenberg|2024-10-19T06:05:45+00:0014 Oct 2024|adult survival, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, diet, diet composition, Migration, migration stopover|

Two billion termites in two weeks

Open-source intelligence for ornithological research

By Connor Panter|2024-09-30T06:21:17+00:0030 Sep 2024|anthropogenic food sources, anthropogenic habitats, citizen science, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, raptors, volunteers|

Citizen science can advance our understanding of raptor diets across large spatial, temporal and demographic scales

What do Common Guillemot chicks eat?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-08-19T13:02:45+00:0024 Aug 2023|diet composition, foraging, monitoring, nestling provisioning, parental care, predator-prey interactions, Seabirds|

Long-term study reveals a drastic change in diet.

Omnivory in wild birds

By Simon Ojodomo Godday|2023-06-30T09:56:19+00:0010 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, experiment, invertebrates, passerines|

Are Village Weavers obligate omnivores?

Hawfinch diet in a nutshell

By Ewan Stenhouse|2023-06-22T13:00:59+00:006 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, distribution, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fecal DNA, fieldwork, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling, passerines, woodland birds|

Using genetic techniques to gain unprecedented ecological knowledge of Hawfinches

Studying raptor diet using iEcology

By Connor Panter|2023-06-05T11:14:34+00:0025 May 2023|citizen science, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, garden birds, predation, raptors, social media, volunteers|

Using iEcology to explore intersexual, seasonal changes in raptor diet

Do shrub-steppe passerines share food?

By Julia Zurdo|2023-03-10T18:26:50+00:0013 Mar 2023|diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, Genetics, IBIS, invertebrates, passerines|

Using DNA metabarcoding to describe diet and niche overlap in a steppe passerine assemblage