ecology Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

On cones and crossbills

By Jente Ottenburghs|2021-02-22T09:27:34+00:0025 Feb 2021|adaptation, distribution, ecology, selection|

How did crossbills adapt to four pine species in Spain?

Understanding the decline of the Common Cuckoo

By Jeremy D. Wilson|2021-03-05T15:06:26+00:0013 Jun 2018|bird atlas, Breeding, breeding biology, Cuckoos, distribution, ecology, foraging|

England’s loss is Scotland’s gain

Understanding the role of large raptors in modified ecosystems

By Julien Terraube|2021-03-10T15:25:06+00:0014 May 2018|bird communities, birds of prey, ecology, predation, raptors|

Influence of large raptors on other predator species

Comparing shorebird survival across the globe

By Verónica Méndez|2021-03-25T21:29:40+00:008 Mar 2018|bird movements, breeding biology, citizen science, colour ringing/banding, ecology, IBIS, Migration, monitoring, movements, population dynamics, shorebirds, survival, tracking, waders|

High adult annual survival rate is critical to population stability, but how do shorebird survival rates vary around the world?

The heat is on for British birds

By Steve Dudley|2020-09-22T13:24:10+00:006 Dec 2017|biodiversity, bird communities, bird movements, Bird Protection, Breeding, Breeding Bird Survey, climate change, distribution, ecology, habitat, Migration, monitoring, Nest Record Scheme, News, phenology, population dynamics, survey, Wetland Bird Survey|

What is the evidence for climate change? How will UK bird communities adapt?

The eagle has landed – vultures use raptors to find food

By Steve Dudley|2016-07-18T07:30:01+00:0018 Jul 2016|ecology, game theory, raptors, scavengers, vultures|

Carrion isn’t the only thing vultures scavenge; they exploit the superior foraging abilities of eagles to find their food.

Garden bird feeding

By Steve Dudley|2020-09-22T13:42:04+00:004 Jul 2016|ecology, garden birds, garden feeding, supplementary feeding|

Quantifying a popular but understudied human–wildlife interaction

What do Galapagos Hawks eat after the goats are gone?

By Steve Dudley|2016-05-23T07:30:57+00:0023 May 2016|Conservation, diet, diet composition, ecology, habitat, island birds, non-natives, raptors|

After the eradication of exotic goats on Santiago Island, Galapagos hawks prey deliveries consist mainly of introduced black rats

Climate and the wanderings of a colourful marshbird

By Steve Dudley|2020-09-22T13:40:30+00:009 May 2016|climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, marsh birds, migrant, Migration, vagrancy, vagrant birds, wetlands|

What drives vagrancy of Purple Gallinules?

Seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding corvids

By Steve Dudley|2016-05-02T07:30:28+00:002 May 2016|behaviour, corvids, ecology, foraging, mutualism, scatter-hoarding, seed dispersal, woodland birds|

Mutualism with food-storing birds helps tree populations on the move