feathers Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Time to fly the nest?

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-07-27T01:27:03+00:0025 Jul 2024|condition, feathers, fledglings, growth, parental condition, tail length, wing length|

Food supplementation prolongs the nestling period in Pied Flycatchers

Are long tails all about sex?

By Wenyi Zhou|2023-06-19T17:22:26+00:0026 Jun 2023|adaptation, avian biology, behaviour, communication, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, feathers, IBIS, passerines, phenotypic variation, plumage|

A review of functions of avian elongated tails

Exposure to parasites in agroecosystems

By Martín Frixione|2023-06-11T18:55:30+00:0012 Jun 2023|avian biology, feathers, fieldwork, natural history, parasites, raptors|

Attracted by agroecosystems: Benefits of and threats to resident and migratory American Kestrels in Baja California peninsula

Doves of a feather flock together

By Will Smith|2023-04-12T10:20:50+00:0013 Apr 2023|bird assemblages, citizen science, colouration, connectivity, distribution, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, fieldwork, Genetics, hybridization, hybrids, IBIS, island birds, plumage, population structure, range expansion|

Can we distinguish Rock Doves from feral pigeons using plumage?

Moult terminology

By Yosef Kiat|2023-01-27T14:17:09+00:006 Feb 2023|annual cycle, avian biology, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, IBIS, migrant, Migration, moult, passerines, People|

Let’s make it simpler!

Split flight feathers moult

By Yosef Kiat|2022-12-21T12:02:34+00:009 Jan 2023|Africa, annual cycle, avian biology, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, IBIS, migrant, Migration, moult, passerines|

A response to time constraints during the main moult period

Ironclad feathers

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-11-29T15:00:10+00:001 Dec 2022|adaptation, behaviour, camouflage, feathers, ornamentation|

Why do some bird species cover themselves in iron oxides?

Sex-condition interaction affects Greater Flamingo colouration

By Miguel Rendón|2022-09-09T16:59:56+00:0015 Sep 2022|avian biology, Breeding, breeding biology, communication, diet, ecology, feathers, fieldwork, nutrition, parental care, plumage, waders, waterbirds|

Why are female flamingos more colourful than males?

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?

Shiny feathers in the mountains

By Chih-Ming Hung|2021-09-30T11:45:55+00:0020 Sep 2021|adaptation, alpine birds, avian biology, colouration, communication, diversification, evolution, feathers, forest birds, IBIS, island birds, passerines, phenotypic variation, plumage, population divergence, ultraviolet light|

Mountain babblers reflect more UV light than lowland babblers