flight Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

What shapes Griffon Vultures’ social networks?

By Orr Spiegel|2023-06-13T22:32:49+00:0022 Jun 2023|behaviour, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, communication, flight, gps tags, movements, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Vultures’ social interactions across different situations matter for their population structure

Are Sandwich Terns at risk of collision?

By Mark Collier|2023-02-08T12:26:34+00:0013 Feb 2023|behaviour, bird-human interactions, collision risk, fieldwork, flight, foraging, monitoring, mortality, renewable energy, Seabirds, wind farms|

Flight heights of Sandwich Terns higher than previous estimates

Where the wind is just right

By Mia Momberg|2022-10-08T13:04:17+00:0010 Oct 2022|birds of conservation concern, Breeding, climate, flight, IBIS, island birds, nest-site limitation, nesting, reproduction, Seabirds, soaring birds, weather, wind|

Investigating the factors determining Wandering Albatross nest-site selection

Why do migratory birds stop on ships?

By Maurizio Sarà|2022-09-07T12:11:32+00:0012 Sep 2022|adult survival, Africa, behaviour, bird movements, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, fieldwork, flight, IBIS, migrant, Migration, migration stopover, movements, non-breeding ecology, owls, passerines, raptors, soaring birds, survival, weather, wind|

Field observations by embarked ornithologists suggest new approaches in the study of migration

The mixed-up world of swifts

By Alice Cibois|2022-07-13T11:39:17+00:0018 Jul 2022|avian biology, cryptic, diversity, DNA barcoding, flight, gene flow, genetic diversity, Genetics, hybridization, hybrids, IBIS, population dynamics, population structure, populations|

Two species of swifts hybridize with each other in an unsuspected way

Migratory patterns of Europe’s smallest seabird

By Teresa Militão|2022-06-16T16:11:55+00:0020 Jun 2022|bio-logging, bird movements, distribution, fieldwork, flight, foraging, geolocator, IBIS, Migration, non-breeding ecology, population dynamics, Seabirds, storm-petrels|

Geolocation reveals that European Storm Petrels from the western Mediterranean migrate to the Atlantic Ocean

Songbirds with similar migrations produce similar calls

By Zach G. Gayk|2021-02-02T09:27:52+00:004 Feb 2021|acoustic monitoring, communication, flight, Migration, song, vocal activity|

Researchers investigate the evolution of wood warbler flight calls

Bird identification guide for weather radars

By Nadja Weisshaupt|2021-01-11T10:18:58+00:0018 Jan 2021|bird movements, citizen science, flight, Migration, monitoring, remote sensing, weather|

How citizen science enlightens ornithological weather radar research

Don’t move. Winter is coming.

By Ron Efrat|2020-10-09T15:12:57+00:0026 Aug 2019|annual cycle, flight, gps tags, Migration, movements, short-distance migration, soaring birds|

What do Dalmatian Pelicans do when it gets cold?

Soaring over Scotland

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-10-11T19:41:30+00:0030 May 2019|birds of prey, flight, gps tags, habitat selection, News, raptors|

Golden Eagles prefer particular slopes to gain altitude