grassland birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Global threats to grassland birds

By Christa Beckmann|2023-06-13T13:48:33+00:0019 Jun 2023|agriculture, biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, cerrado, climate change, grassland, grassland birds, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, IBIS, land management, land use|

What are the main threats to declining grassland birds?

Fatal attraction or novel niche?

By Amber Swicegood|2023-05-23T12:46:18+00:0029 May 2023|adaptation, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, Farmland birds, grassland birds, habitat degradation, habitat selection, nesting, passerines|

Adaptability of a grassland specialist facing landscape-level habitat change

A tricky trade-off for the Northern Wheatear

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-12-22T13:05:24+00:0025 Jan 2023|alpine birds, Breeding, climate change, fledgling survival, grassland birds, nesting success, phenology, trade-offs|

Should these birds breed early or late?

Revealing the Redleg’s Secrets

By Giovanni Forcina|2022-12-12T14:26:00+00:0022 Dec 2022|avian biology, climate change, disease, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, Farmland birds, Galliformes, game bird, Genetics, genomics, grassland birds, Science|

The whole genome marks a new era for the Red-legged Partridge

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

Do occurrence data predict nest sites?

By Frank Fogarty|2021-11-15T10:34:05+00:008 Nov 2021|Breeding, ecology, grassland, grassland birds, habitat, IBIS, modelling, nesting, occurrence data, passerines, selection, steppe birds|

Occurrence data are easy to collect, but can they provide information about nesting habitat?

How did the Iberá Seedeater form?

By Sheela Turbek|2021-03-27T12:30:40+00:001 Apr 2021|bird song, grassland birds, plumage, Speciation|

Novel plumage produced through genome reshuffling generates a new species

Evolution of Neotropical grassland birds

By Heraldo V. Norambuena|2021-02-01T14:05:59+00:008 Feb 2021|diversification, evolution, grassland, grassland birds, Neotropics|

Grasslands have some interesting history that shaped a particular diversity of birds

Multi-taxa consequences of avian umbrella species management

By Robert Hawkes|2020-12-16T12:56:13+00:0031 May 2019|Conservation, grass heath, grassland, grassland birds, invertebrates, News, surrogate species|

Can Biodiversity Auditing predict the outcomes of umbrella species management?

Short-distance Migration in the Dark

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-16T12:44:33+00:007 Mar 2019|grassland birds, habitat selection, Little Bustard, migration stopover, News, temperature|

Male Little Bustards migrate during the night and use multiple stopover sites