diet composition Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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

An inordinate fondness for moths

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-12-14T11:04:38+00:0015 Dec 2022|diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, fecal DNA, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling|

Genetic analyses provide insights into the diet of Eurasian Nightjars.

A migratory food web

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-08-25T08:04:36+00:0025 Aug 2022|annual cycle, bird movements, Conservation, diet composition, DNA sequencing, Migration, predation, raptors|

Merlins feed on migratory songbirds to fuel their long-distance migration.

Do forest owls respond differently to prey shortages?

By Urška Ratajc|2021-12-14T12:27:27+00:0013 Dec 2021|birds of prey, community ecology, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, IBIS, machine learning, nocturnal birds, population dynamics, populations, predator-prey interactions, territoriality|

Machine learning approaches identified mice population cycles as key parameter

Breeding Great Tits can be picky

By Marta Olivé Muñiz|2021-10-07T11:20:31+00:0011 Oct 2021|Breeding, breeding biology, cameras, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, forest birds, garden birds, nestling food, passerines, woodland birds|

Prey selection in breeding Great Tits is moderately consistent over years

Chicks as potential biodiversity monitors

By Stephen Willis|2021-09-30T13:01:44+00:006 Sep 2021|biodiversity, BOU-funded, Breeding, diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, eDNA, fecal DNA, fledglings, forest birds, woodland birds|

Discovering nestling diet using DNA barcoding