foraging Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Surfing the blue wave

By Marta Acácio|2021-10-14T09:52:16+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|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|2021-07-09T11:31:08+00:0017 Jun 2021|Bird Protection, foraging, nestling food, parasitism|

A recent study tested the parental food compensation hypothesis.

Antarctic foragers

By Jente Ottenburghs|2021-06-11T11:27:39+00:003 Jun 2021|distribution, foraging, Seabirds|

Do Adélie penguins from two small colonies forage in different areas?

Oceanography and the migration ecology of seabirds

By Chris Redfern|2021-03-04T09:05:41+00:008 Mar 2021|foraging, geolocator, island birds, Migration, Oceanography, Roseate Tern, Seabirds, wintering|

Oceanographic factors defining the migration ecology of one of Europe’s rarest breeding seabirds

Long journey to the King Penguins

By Émile Brisson-Curadeau|2021-01-26T06:26:57+00:001 Feb 2021|BOU Warham Student, breeding biology, climate change, fieldwork, foraging, Seabirds|

Our third BOU John & Pat Warham Student, Émile Brisson-Curadeau, tells us about remote fieldwork at the Ratmanoff King Penguin colony