Disturbance Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Disturbance increases nest predation

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-11-26T14:15:19+00:0030 Nov 2023|antipredator behaviour, bird-human interactions, Disturbance, fledgling survival, nest predation, predation|

Stray dogs have a larger effect than humans.

Avoiding power lines

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-09-17T12:30:59+00:007 Sep 2023|bird-human interactions, breeding biology, Disturbance, land use, waterbirds|

The density of breeding birds increases with distance from electric power lines.

Network analysis for trans-boundary conservation

By Joshua Nightingale|2023-04-07T16:42:45+00:0010 Apr 2023|bio-logging, bird communities, bird movements, bird-human interactions, connectivity, displacement, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, habitat degradation, migrant, movements, noise pollution, shorebirds, urbanization, waders, waterbirds, wetlands|

Incorporating information about bird movements in Environmental Impact Assessments

How do urban birds settle fights under noise?

By Çağla Önsal (she/her)|2022-10-08T14:43:57+00:0013 Oct 2022|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bird song, communication, competition, Disturbance, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, garden birds, habitat, noise pollution, passerines, sensory ecology, song, sound|

Loud cities reshape communication and aggressive behaviour in European Robins

Rock Buntings find refuge in avalanche tracks

By Emmanuel Requena|2022-08-31T11:24:08+00:001 Sep 2022|adaptation, alpine birds, climate change, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, global change, habitat fragmentation, passerines, upland birds|

Do the avalanche tracks create suitable habitats for open-land birds in mountain forests?

Singing Penguins

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-08-05T08:45:48+00:0011 Aug 2022|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, Breeding, communication, Disturbance, nest recording, passive monitoring, recording, territoriality|

Can we use penguin display songs for monitoring colonies?

Protecting waders through wetland conservation

By Sean Jellesmark|2022-08-01T14:25:18+00:004 Aug 2022|biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of conservation concern, breeding success, Conservation, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, grassland, habitat restoration, IBIS, impact assessment, land management, marsh birds, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, RSPB science, waders, wetlands|

What works, what does not, and how do we know?

Oystercatchers avoid a disturbed, high tide roost

By Henk-Jan van der Kolk|2022-02-21T10:32:08+00:0021 Feb 2022|behaviour, bio-logging, bird-human interactions, Disturbance, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, gps tags, IBIS, movements, satellite tracking, shorebirds, waders|

High levels of tourism correlate with roost site avoidance

Is tourism ruining the tundra?

By Avery Meeker|2022-01-04T17:09:03+00:003 Jan 2022|bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, displacement, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, land use, occupancy, road traffic, Tundra|

How increasing tourism, hiking, and road activity fuelled by relaxed resource management has led to species loss in America’s greatest wilderness

Wetland bird guilds respond to hurricanes

By Mateo Ruiz|2021-11-30T18:15:43+00:006 Dec 2021|bird communities, climate, Disturbance, global change, hurricanes, IBIS, natural disasters, Neotropics, populations, weather|

Changes follow when hurricane winds blow, but where and why?