grassland 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?

Saving the Alpine Ring Ouzel

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-09-02T09:55:21+00:008 Sep 2022|alpine birds, Bird Protection, climate change, distribution, grassland, habitat degradation, habitat selection, occupancy, weather|

Uncovering the drivers of population decline in Germany.

Protecting waders through wetland conservation

By Sean Jellesmark|2022-08-01T14:25:18+00:004 Aug 2022|biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of conservation concern, breeding success, Conservation, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, grassland, habitat restoration, IBIS, impact assessment, land management, marsh birds, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, RSPB science, waders, wetlands|

What works, what does not, and how do we know?

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?

Hyacinth Macaw conservation in the Brazilian Pantanal

By Maxwell R. Oliveira|2021-08-03T12:05:44+00:0019 Jul 2021|Bird Protection, cavity nesting, distribution, endangered, grassland, parrot, population structure, protected areas, threatened species, wetlands|

Habitat loss and lack of protected areas threaten the iconic Hyacinth Macaw

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

The forgotten Breckland Curlew – another predation victim

By Natalia Zielonka|2020-12-15T14:37:41+00:0026 Feb 2020|Conservation, Disturbance, grassland, nest predation, waders|

Is ground-disturbance management the answer for protection of breeding Curlew?

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?

Umbrellas for grassland bird conservation

By Yoan Fourcade|2021-06-08T14:14:07+00:004 Sep 2017|agriculture, grassland, habitat, land management|

Can we conserve the entire grassland avifauna by protecting the Corncrake only?

Figurehead bird conservation – wider biodiversity benefits?

By Robert Hawkes|2021-11-26T14:19:49+00:0022 Feb 2016|biodiversity, Conservation, grass heath, grassland, habitat|

Will creating Stone-curlew habitat benefit rare plants and invertebrates?