extra pair paternity Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Older Blue Tits are more faithful

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-01-11T20:10:30+00:0012 Jan 2023|behaviour, breeding biology, extra pair paternity, passerines|

But why do they still engage in extra-pair copulations?

Cheating Red-footed Falcons

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-12-28T16:32:07+00:0030 Dec 2021|birds of prey, breeding biology, extra pair paternity, nest monitoring, raptors|

Researchers count the number of extra-pair offspring in this falcon species.

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

Early birds do not catch the “extra worm”

By Barbara Mizumo Tomotani|2021-06-08T13:48:28+00:0011 Sep 2017|Breeding, extra pair paternity, migrant|

Pied Flycatchers do not gain more extra-pair paternity by arriving earlier

Swallow sexual life through the looking glass

By Valentina Ferretti|2021-11-16T13:43:15+00:001 Aug 2016|extra pair paternity, island birds|

A study of extra-pair paternity in the Chilean Swallow

The secret sex life of the Brown-headed Nuthatch

By Kin-Lan Han|2021-11-16T14:22:00+00:0027 Jun 2016|Breeding, cooperative breeding, extra pair paternity, forest birds, Genetics, parental care|

Is there extra-pair paternity in the cooperatively breeding Brown-headed Nuthatch?