early career Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

The more the merrier?

By Akshay Bharadwaj|2024-08-29T15:22:56+00:0015 Aug 2024|BOU-funded, early career, ECR, fieldwork|

Examining the relationship between structural diversity of vegetation cover and biodiversity in the Swiss Jura mountains

Fellowship in the Field

By Kirsty Gurney|2024-05-09T09:55:25+00:0020 May 2024|early career, early-career researcher, mentoring|

Inspiration and mentorship in the great outdoors

Honey-hunting and human-honeyguide mutualism

By Afan Anap Ishaku|2023-03-16T09:32:54+00:0016 Mar 2023|Africa, behaviour, bird-human interactions, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, evolution, fieldwork|

What is the current state of honey-hunting and human-honeyguide mutualism in Northern Nigeria?

Colour-by-stressor?

By Alana Krug-MacLeod (she/her)|2022-11-18T20:49:15+00:0024 Nov 2022|adaptation, avian biology, colouration, corticosterone, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, physiology, shorebirds|

Pre-hatch temperature stress linked to bird colouration in adulthood

Does urban breeding influence gull foraging?

By Liam Langley|2022-10-27T16:18:10+00:0031 Oct 2022|adaptation, behaviour, bird movements, bird-human interactions, colonial birds, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, foraging, habitat selection, IBIS, movements, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tracking, Urban birds|

Urban and coastal breeding Lesser Black-backed Gulls segregate by foraging habitat

Through sickness and in health

By Olivia Hicks|2022-10-26T20:05:36+00:0027 Oct 2022|avian biology, biomonitoring, bird handling, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, penguins, physiology, Seabirds, stress|

How does handling time affect innate immune function in Adélie Penguins?

How do urban birds settle fights under noise?

By Çağla Önsal (she/her)|2022-10-08T14:43:57+00:0013 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

Feather colouration and the (mis)measure of patterns

By Natalia García|2022-08-19T09:38:56+00:0018 Aug 2022|avian biology, BOU-funded, Career Development Bursary, colouration, early career, ecology, ECR, evolution, feathers, morphology, passerines, plumage|

How to objectively “measure” colouration in species with complex patterns of spots and/or lines?

Foraging ecology of the House Sparrow

By Jan Havlíček|2022-08-08T12:13:16+00:008 Aug 2022|behaviour, Breeding, breeding biology, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ecotone, ECR, Farmland birds, foraging, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, IBIS, land management, movements, parental care, passerines, survival, Urban birds, urbanization|

Parents feeding offspring prefer fast-food sources and have to go the extra mile in urban environments

A wild pigeon chase!

By Will Smith|2022-07-08T11:53:13+00:0011 Jul 2022|distribution, domesticated, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, Genetics, genomics, population dynamics, population structure|

The Rock Dove’s genomic status in the British Isles.