ECR Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Surfing the blue wave

By Marta Acácio|2021-10-14T09:52:16+00:0018 Oct 2021|Africa, bird movements, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, movements, satellite tracking, waterbirds, wetlands|

Do changes in surface water drive the movements of Shoebills?

Breeding Great Tits can be picky

By Marta Olivé Muñiz|2021-10-07T11:20:31+00:0011 Oct 2021|Breeding, breeding biology, cameras, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, forest birds, garden birds, nestling food, passerines, woodland birds|

Prey selection in breeding Great Tits is moderately consistent over years

The secret sex lives of jackdaws

By Rebecca Hooper|2021-09-30T12:58:20+00:0030 Sep 2021|avian biology, behaviour, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, colonial birds, corvids, early-career researcher, ECR, extra pair paternity, genomics, reproduction|

Using the latest genomic tools to investigate jackdaw sexual behaviour

From PenguinWatch to PetrelWatch!

By Kirsty Franklin|2021-01-04T16:54:14+00:0021 Dec 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, citizen science, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

If you have ever wanted to visit an Indian Ocean seabird colony, here is a chance to do so – albeit remotely.

Best ECR IBIS paper – 2019

By Steve Dudley|2020-12-15T13:03:09+00:0021 Mar 2020|carry-over effects, condition, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, News, tracking|

And the winner is . . .

Round Island fieldwork

By Kirsty Franklin|2020-10-07T08:08:01+00:0020 Feb 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

Warham PhD Student Kirsty Franklin, tells us about her first field season in the Indian Ocean

The ‘Round Island’ petrel conundrum

By Kirsty Franklin|2020-12-15T17:24:44+00:0022 Aug 2019|BOU Warham Student, ECR, Round Island petrel, Seabirds, tracking|

The first BOU John & Pat Warham Studentship

Big Brother is watching who?

By Jente Ottenburghs|2020-10-11T20:13:24+00:0016 May 2019|awards, BOU, Breeding, cameras, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, nesting success, News|

Use of cameras provides insights into nest survival of Snowy Plovers

Reflections from our new President

By Juliet A. Vickery|2020-10-11T21:19:37+00:002 Apr 2019|BOU, Community, Conferences, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, News|

Juliet Vickery shares her thoughts on the BOU as she takes up the Presidency

From IOCongress2018

By Igor Berkunsky|2021-02-12T14:34:51+00:007 Nov 2018|Conferences, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IOCongress2018, parrot, Psittaciformes, reintroduction|

"The best congress I have attended"