Disturbance Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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?

Does human routine alter bird behaviour?

By Edvaldo F. Silva-Jr|2021-06-04T08:57:12+00:007 Jun 2021|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bird song, bird-human interactions, Disturbance, noise pollution, road traffic, song, Urban birds|

Rufous Horneros behave equally during weekly cycles of human activity

Does your neighbourhood make you stressed?

By Diane Colombelli-Négrel|2021-04-23T08:58:09+00:0026 Apr 2021|bird-human interactions, colonial birds, Disturbance, physiology, predation, Seabirds, sound|

Little Penguins living in different environments differ in their response to stressors

The sound of birds in a world of noise

By Hannah Vincelette|2021-02-12T10:58:33+00:0018 Feb 2021|acoustic monitoring, bird song, Disturbance, noise, noise pollution, protected areas, vocal activity|

Acoustic monitoring enlightens aircraft noise impacts on remote bird communities

Shale gas development affects the epigenetic patterns in Louisiana Waterthrushes

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|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 (he/him)|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