global change Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

One’s Trash is Another’s Treasure

By Zoey Greenberg|2024-01-29T13:13:58+00:0029 Jan 2024|adult survival, anthropogenic food sources, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Breeding, Conservation, global change, monitoring, vultures|

Landfill sites in Chile support Andean Condors

Critically Endangered vulture shows resilience

By Zoey Greenberg|2023-10-12T10:44:41+00:0025 Sep 2023|Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Breeding, breeding success, Conservation, global change, monitoring, protected areas, vultures|

Eleven years of successful nesting suggest protective measures work

Avian collections in a changing world

By Ken Norris|2023-10-12T10:45:52+00:0018 Sep 2023|collaboration, Conservation, global change, museum collections|

The Museum needs you to help unlock our collections!

Genes of a feather flock together?

By Kurt Burnham|2022-12-18T10:58:09+00:002 Jan 2023|avian biology, bird assemblages, colonial birds, Genetics, global change, IBIS, island birds, phenotypic variation, physiology, population structure, puffins, Seabirds, Tundra, waterbirds|

An unexpected correlation between body size and subspecies designation within a single puffin colony in High Arctic Greenland. A result of climate change?

How is climate change affecting Bearded Vulture ranges?

By Tulsi Subedi|2022-11-07T10:13:16+00:0010 Nov 2022|adaptation, Africa, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, climate, climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, habitat, Himalayan birds, IBIS, modelling, raptors, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Modelling Bearded Vulture distributions under various climate scenarios

Rock Buntings find refuge in avalanche tracks

By Emmanuel Requena|2022-08-31T11:24:08+00:001 Sep 2022|adaptation, alpine birds, climate change, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, global change, habitat fragmentation, passerines, upland birds|

Do the avalanche tracks create suitable habitats for open-land birds in mountain forests?

Growing up in a warming Arctic

By Thomas Lameris|2022-01-04T17:36:52+00:0010 Jan 2022|breeding biology, camouflage, climate, climate change, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, fieldwork, global change, invertebrates, migrant, nestling growth, phenology, reproduction, shorebirds, Tundra, waders|

How do shorebird chicks cope with less food and increasing temperatures?

Wetland bird guilds respond to hurricanes

By Mateo Ruiz|2021-11-30T18:15:43+00:006 Dec 2021|bird communities, climate, Disturbance, global change, hurricanes, IBIS, natural disasters, Neotropics, populations, weather|

Changes follow when hurricane winds blow, but where and why?

Climate and the wanderings of a colourful marshbird

By Andrew Farnsworth|2021-11-18T14:32:40+00:009 May 2016|climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, marsh birds, migrant, Migration, vagrancy, vagrant birds, wetlands|

What drives vagrancy of Purple Gallinules?

Dartford Warbler: unplanned fires and opportunities for conservation

By Adrián Regos|2021-12-05T09:49:40+00:0027 Apr 2015|Breeding, Conservation, distribution, global change, habitat, Science, weather|

How will global change affect the distribution of the Dartford Warbler?