gps tags Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

The first migration of Icelandic Whimbrel

By Camilo Carneiro|2023-11-06T09:02:38+00:006 Nov 2023|annual cycle, behaviour, bird movements, creative writing, gps tags, Migration|

How do 60 day old whimbrels reach their wintering sites?

Do geolocators affect the survival of petrels?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-09-17T12:45:57+00:0021 Sep 2023|adult survival, bio-logging, geolocator, gps tags, island birds, life history, mark‐recapture, Round Island petrel, Seabirds|

A long-term dataset of Trindade Petrels finds no clear effect.

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

The not-so-separate niches of spotted eagles

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-06-15T07:09:30+00:0015 Jun 2023|agriculture, competition, diet, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, niche overlap|

Drainage of wetlands might lead to the collapse of niche differentiation.

How to cope when the food changes?

By Joanne Morten|2023-01-17T17:44:20+00:0019 Jan 2023|behaviour, bio-logging, bird movements, colour ringing/banding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, shorebirds, waders, waterbirds|

Foraging behaviours of Eurasian Oystercatchers in the Exe Estuary, Devon

Eagles vs. power lines: attraction or avoidance?

By Ana Teresa Marques|2022-06-01T10:16:51+00:0030 May 2022|behaviour, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, collision risk, gps tags, movements, raptors, satellite tracking, soaring birds|

Do power lines affect space use by Bonelli’s Eagles?

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.

Same strategy as last year?

By Kirsty Franklin|2022-04-27T20:49:48+00:002 May 2022|behaviour, bird movements, BOU Warham Student, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, islands birds, Migration, movements, phenology, Round Island petrel, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tropical birds|

Tropical seabirds show high consistency of migratory behaviours despite often weak seasonal predictability of resources

The migration of the Canarian Houbara Bustard

By Inmaculada Abril-Colón|2022-04-21T10:11:43+00:0025 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, land use, Migration, movements, nocturnal birds, protected areas, satellite tracking, short-distance migration|

Short-distance nocturnal migration in an island endemic bustard

Nest-switching Storks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-15T09:02:32+00:0021 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, Breeding, displacement, Genetics, gps tags, movement, nest monitoring, nestlings, occurrence data, population dynamics, ringing, tracking|

What is the best method to quantify the frequency of nest-switching?