Disturbance Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Taking habitat without taking lives

By Will Cresswell|2026-09-29T12:16:34+01:0012 Oct 2026|anthropogenic habitats, behaviour, Disturbance|

Why human disturbance is a key conservation issue

Penguins in the pandemic

By Clare Flynn|2023-12-18T11:34:15+00:0025 Dec 2023|bird-human interactions, Breeding, distribution, Disturbance, penguins|

Gentoo penguins change nesting sites during COVID-19 closures

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

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+01:007 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+01:0010 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+01:0013 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+01:001 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+01:0011 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+01:004 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?