experiment Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Feeling the heat?

By Ashleigh Marshall|2024-10-03T08:55:20+00:003 Oct 2024|captive-bred, climate change, domesticated, eggshell thickness, experiment, heat, passerines, stress, wild-derived|

Decreased eggshell thickness at high ambient temperatures in Zebra Finches

To moult or not to moult?

By Ashleigh Marshall|2024-05-02T01:11:36+00:002 May 2024|body condition, clutch size, experiment, nesting, provisioning, sexual conflict|

Trade-offs between reproduction and self-maintenance in Blue Tits

Birds as monitors of ecosystem management

By Darren O’Connell|2023-10-12T10:43:36+00:0028 Sep 2023|bioacoustics, biomonitoring, bird assemblages, BOU members, BOU-funded, experiment, habitat, monitoring, upland birds|

Using soundscapes to assess the impacts of livestock grazing pressure on upland avian biodiversity and phenology

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?

Birds in cocoa farms: a sweet deal

By Crinan Jarrett|2023-01-08T13:11:03+00:002 Feb 2023|Africa, agriculture, biodiversity, community ecology, displacement, ecology, experiment, fieldwork, forest birds, invertebrates, population dynamics, tropical birds|

Birds and bats regulate pest populations in African cocoa farms

Can magpies tell friend from foe?

By Grace Blackburn|2022-11-28T11:42:26+00:005 Dec 2022|behaviour, bird communities, communal, communication, communications, corvids, early-career researcher, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, IBIS, personality, population dynamics, population structure, sound, territoriality, vocalisations|

Can Western Australian Magpies distinguish between songs of groupmates and non-groupmates?

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

Maternal competitive events influence offspring phenotype

By América Hernández|2022-08-31T17:00:23+00:005 Sep 2022|avian biology, Breeding, breeding biology, cavity nesting, competition, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, eggs, experiment, IBIS, nest monitoring, nest-site limitation, passerines, phenotypic variation|

Compete with me and my progeny will grow faster

Avian embryos react to predators

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-07-11T14:47:25+00:0014 Jul 2022|antipredator behaviour, behaviour, Breeding, communication, eggs, experiment, incubation, nest predation, shorebirds, vocalisations|

Testing the effects of several predator-related cues on two shorebird species.