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Hawfinch diet in a nutshell

By Ewan Stenhouse|2023-06-22T13:00:59+01:006 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+01:0026 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+01:008 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+01:005 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+01:0029 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

Studying raptor diet using iEcology

By Connor Panter|2023-06-05T11:14:34+01:0025 May 2023|citizen science, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, garden birds, predation, raptors, social media, volunteers|

Using iEcology to explore intersexual, seasonal changes in raptor diet

Why do gulls steal from humans?

By Shubhi Raghav|2023-05-15T13:43:15+01:0011 May 2023|adaptation, anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bird-human interactions, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, kleptoparasitism, People, Seabirds|

What affects Herring Gull food stealing behaviour in towns?

What’s lead got to do with it?

By Aimée McIntosh|2023-05-07T12:36:15+01:008 May 2023|adult survival, biomonitoring, early-career researcher, ECR, Farmland birds, fieldwork, IBIS, lead poisoning, waterbirds|

Reducing lead shot ingestion in managed goose populations

Seeking shelter under the snow

By Amy Shipley|2023-04-17T17:37:08+01:0017 Apr 2023|adaptation, adult survival, annual cycle, behaviour, bio-logging, bird movements, climate, climate change, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, game bird, habitat selection, IBIS, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, temperature, thermal stress, winter|

The benefits of snow burrowing for a winter-adapted bird

Doves of a feather flock together

By Will Smith|2023-04-12T10:20:50+01:0013 Apr 2023|bird assemblages, citizen science, colouration, connectivity, distribution, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, fieldwork, Genetics, hybridization, hybrids, IBIS, island birds, plumage, population structure, range expansion|

Can we distinguish Rock Doves from feral pigeons using plumage?

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