Disturbance Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Shale gas development affects the epigenetic patterns in Louisiana Waterthrushes

By Jente Ottenburghs|2021-01-14T07:58:01+00:0014 Jan 2021|adaptation, Disturbance, Genetics|

Males and females react differently to this environmental disturbance.

Birds facing increasing anthropogenic noise

By Adrián Barrero Diego|2021-01-06T08:34:12+00:0011 Jan 2021|agriculture, bird song, Disturbance, Farmland birds, Little Bustard, noise pollution, road traffic|

Can a non-passerine bird adjust its song according to noise?

Getting near the Noddies

By Jente Ottenburghs|2020-12-22T15:05:46+00:0022 Oct 2020|behaviour, Disturbance, island birds, Seabirds|

Human visits to remote islands affect the behaviour of breeding Brown Noddies.

Can leisure and birds coexist on beaches?

By Miguel Gomez-Serrano|2020-10-05T15:31:27+00:0014 Sep 2020|Conservation, Disturbance, flushing behaviour, habituation, shorebirds, thermal stress, waders|

Dogs disturb nesting plovers more than people do on tourist beaches

The forgotten Breckland Curlew – another predation victim

By Natalia Zielonka|2020-12-15T14:37:41+00:0026 Feb 2020|Conservation, Disturbance, grassland, nest predation, waders|

Is ground-disturbance management the answer for protection of breeding Curlew?

The lie of the “black lightning”: signal reliability in a seabird

By Camilla Soravia|2020-10-08T13:56:13+00:0016 Sep 2019|colouration, Disturbance, plumage, Seabirds|

Does Storm Petrels’ plumage coloration reliably signal body condition?

Are Burrowing Owls stuck in an ecological trap?

By Jente Ottenburghs|2020-12-16T14:53:36+00:0018 Apr 2019|agriculture, Breeding, Disturbance, fledglings, habitat selection, News|

Exploring the influence of agriculture on nesting success.

Birds of many feathers flock together

By Christina Ieronymidou|2018-08-06T07:30:11+00:006 Aug 2018|community ecology, Disturbance, species interactions|

Exploring bird associations across environmental and human disturbance gradients

Little Bustard habitat selection and traffic noise pollution

By Christina Ieronymidou|2018-07-09T07:30:05+00:009 Jul 2018|Disturbance, noise pollution, road traffic, steppe birds|

How does traffic noise influence the spatial distribution of Little Bustards?

Assessing impacts of monitoring Whinchat nests

By Christina Ieronymidou|2020-09-22T13:25:33+00:008 Jan 2018|behaviour, Disturbance, nest monitoring, nesting success|

Does nest monitoring by researchers badger Whinchats?