foraging Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-05-03T13:06:43+00:005 May 2022|agriculture, anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bird movements, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, movement, overwintering, plastics, pollution, remote sensing, tracking, water quality|

Human activities determine the daily schedule of overwintering birds in Spain.

Where have you Bean Geese?

By Michael Thornton|2022-01-11T13:25:24+00:0017 Jan 2022|bird movements, birds of conservation concern, ecology, Farmland birds, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, grassland birds, habitat selection, land management, migrant, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, satellite tracking, waterbirds|

Tracking Scotland’s population of Taiga Bean Geese Anser fabalis

DNA-proofing seed dispersal networks

By Spencer Schubert|2021-11-15T10:39:00+00:0028 Oct 2021|BOU-funded, dispersal, DNA sequencing, early-career researcher, ECR, fieldwork, foraging, frugivory, mutualism, seed dispersal, seed/spore dispersal (diet)|

Connecting foraging observations to dispersal patterns

Surfing the blue wave

By Marta Acácio|2021-11-15T10:37:43+00:0018 Oct 2021|Africa, bird movements, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, movements, satellite tracking, waterbirds, wetlands|

Do changes in surface water drive the movements of Shoebills?

Breeding Great Tits can be picky

By Marta Olivé Muñiz|2021-10-07T11:20:31+00:0011 Oct 2021|Breeding, breeding biology, cameras, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, forest birds, garden birds, nestling food, passerines, woodland birds|

Prey selection in breeding Great Tits is moderately consistent over years

Leg rings and diving behaviour

By Agustina Gómez-Laich|2021-09-28T11:19:54+00:0016 Sep 2021|acceleration, behaviour, bio-logging, colour ringing/banding, foraging, ringing, Seabirds|

Does being ringed affect underwater performance of foraging cormorants?

The pace-of-life of the Pied Flycatcher

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-08-03T12:04:46+00:0029 Jul 2021|behaviour, ecology, foraging|

Searching for a link between metabolism and personality.

Desert birds don’t wait for rain

By Amanda Bourne|2021-07-08T14:36:58+00:0012 Jul 2021|behaviour, BOU-funded, breeding biology, cooperative breeding, diet, diet composition, foraging, stable isotopes|

Southern Pied Babblers in the Kalahari start breeding before rainfall

Gull’s family dinner

By Rosemarie Kentie|2021-06-19T21:21:11+00:0028 Jun 2021|foraging, Seabirds, stable isotopes|

Do parents of Lesser Black-backed and Herring Gulls adapt their foraging behaviour to their chicks’ needs?

How do Darwin’s finches cope with parasites?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-07-09T11:31:08+00:0017 Jun 2021|Bird Protection, foraging, nestling food, parasitism|

A recent study tested the parental food compensation hypothesis.