early-career researcher Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Why do birds have different eye colours?

By Eamon Corbett|2023-10-16T07:17:53+00:0016 Oct 2023|colour mutations, colouration, early-career researcher, evolution, Genetics|

Bird irises come in a rainbow of colours – but what are the causes behind them?

Autumn-sown crops contribute to Mute Swan recovery

By Tiffany Ki|2023-10-12T10:46:56+00:0011 Sep 2023|agriculture, annual cycle, anthropogenic food sources, diet, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, land management, lead poisoning, legislation, monitoring, provisioning, wintering|

Using spatial and temporal variation to understand drivers of change

Breeding ecology of a critically endangered macaw

By Tom Lewis|2023-09-04T19:00:52+00:004 Sep 2023|birds of conservation concern, Breeding, breeding biology, breeding success, Conservation, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, IBIS, Neotropics, nest predation, nesting, Psittaciformes, urbanization|

Combining nest-site selection and reproductive success to inform conservation

Avian eggs and calibrated digital photography

By Klaudia Szala|2023-08-15T10:46:11+00:0021 Aug 2023|camouflage, colouration, early-career researcher, ECR, eggs, experiment, sensory ecology|

How varied light affects colour and pattern measurements of eggshells?

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

Are long tails all about sex?

By Wenyi Zhou|2023-06-19T17:22:26+00:0026 Jun 2023|adaptation, avian biology, behaviour, communication, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, feathers, IBIS, passerines, phenotypic variation, plumage|

A review of functions of avian elongated tails

Parrot poaching in Peru and Ecuador

By Pedro Romero-Vidal|2023-06-06T14:25:56+00:008 Jun 2023|bird-human interactions, early-career researcher, ECR, endangered, fieldwork, morphology, Neotropics, parrot, populations, Psittaciformes, road ecology, survey|

Preferred species poached far beyond their abundances in the wild

Bird-building collisions spike during fair weather

By Erin Jackson|2023-05-30T11:18:49+00:005 Jun 2023|bird-human interactions, collision, collision risk, creative writing, early-career researcher, ECR, habitat selection, Migration, mortality, passerines, Urban birds, urbanization, volunteers|

Could calm weather be the perfect storm for bird collisions?

Fatal attraction or novel niche?

By Amber Swicegood|2023-05-23T12:46:18+00:0029 May 2023|adaptation, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, Farmland birds, grassland birds, habitat degradation, habitat selection, nesting, passerines|

Adaptability of a grassland specialist facing landscape-level habitat change

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