fieldwork Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

The more the merrier?

By Akshay Bharadwaj|2024-08-29T15:22:56+00:0015 Aug 2024|BOU-funded, early career, ECR, fieldwork|

Examining the relationship between structural diversity of vegetation cover and biodiversity in the Swiss Jura mountains

Can we solve one of ornithology’s oldest challenges?

By Leo Joseph|2023-10-12T10:40:06+00:009 Oct 2023|colour mutations, colouration, distribution, fieldwork, museum collections, pigeon, recording|

The challenge of accurately scoring iris colour in birds

Hawfinch diet in a nutshell

By Ewan Stenhouse|2023-06-22T13:00:59+00:006 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, distribution, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fecal DNA, fieldwork, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling, passerines, woodland birds|

Using genetic techniques to gain unprecedented ecological knowledge of Hawfinches

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

Parrot poaching in Peru and Ecuador

By Pedro Romero-Vidal|2023-06-06T14:25:56+00:008 Jun 2023|bird-human interactions, early-career researcher, ECR, endangered, fieldwork, morphology, Neotropics, parrot, populations, Psittaciformes, road ecology, survey|

Preferred species poached far beyond their abundances in the wild

What’s lead got to do with it?

By Aimée McIntosh|2023-05-07T12:36:15+00:008 May 2023|adult survival, biomonitoring, early-career researcher, ECR, Farmland birds, fieldwork, IBIS, lead poisoning, waterbirds|

Reducing lead shot ingestion in managed goose populations

Body condition and reproduction in declining diving ducks

By Dorota Gajdošová|2023-05-01T14:50:17+00:001 May 2023|avian biology, breeding biology, breeding success, colour ringing/banding, eggs, fieldwork, IBIS, incubation, nesting success, parasitism, physiology, population dynamics, population structure, waterbirds|

Increased body condition affects duck egg mass and hatchability

How different is a subspecies?

By Cheryl Dykstra|2023-04-16T19:28:07+00:0024 Apr 2023|avian biology, DNA sequencing, fieldwork, gene flow, Genetics, population structure, raptors|

Researchers find genetic differences in a distinctive subspecies of a common raptor

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?

Honey-hunting and human-honeyguide mutualism

By Afan Anap Ishaku|2023-03-16T09:32:54+00:0016 Mar 2023|Africa, behaviour, bird-human interactions, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, evolution, fieldwork|

What is the current state of honey-hunting and human-honeyguide mutualism in Northern Nigeria?