habitat selection Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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.

Bird-building collisions spike during fair weather

By Erin Jackson|2023-05-30T11:18:49+00:005 Jun 2023|bird-human interactions, collision, collision risk, creative writing, early-career researcher, ECR, habitat selection, Migration, mortality, passerines, Urban birds, urbanization, volunteers|

Could calm weather be the perfect storm for bird collisions?

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

Seeking shelter under the snow

By Amy Shipley|2023-04-17T17:37:08+00:0017 Apr 2023|adaptation, adult survival, annual cycle, behaviour, bio-logging, bird movements, climate, climate change, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, game bird, habitat selection, IBIS, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, temperature, thermal stress, winter|

The benefits of snow burrowing for a winter-adapted bird

Reed management influences breeding performance of Common Cuckoos

By Thomas Mérő|2023-03-03T13:49:08+00:006 Mar 2023|Breeding, brood parasitism, community ecology, Cuckoos, ecology, fieldwork, habitat, habitat selection, land management, nesting success, parasites, parasitism, passerines, wetlands|

Characteristics of habitats occupied by hosts influences survival of unwanted brood parasite youngsters

Which habitats do birds prefer?

By Da-li Lin|2023-02-15T13:59:41+00:0020 Feb 2023|behaviour, bird communities, distribution, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, Farmland birds, forest birds, habitat, habitat selection, IBIS, land use, modelling, population structure, volunteers|

A comparison of habitat preference assessment methods

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

Ecological interactions at risk

By Pedro Romero-Vidal|2022-12-17T15:06:54+00:005 Jan 2023|anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, foraging, forest birds, habitat degradation, habitat selection, migrant, Neotropics, parrot, Psittaciformes, road ecology, seed dispersal, threatened species, urbanization|

Exotic mammals threaten Araucaria Forests by displacing Austral Parakeets

Ortolan Buntings prefer traditional agriculture

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-12-28T21:34:45+00:0029 Dec 2022|agriculture, bird movements, Farmland birds, geolocator, habitat selection, land management, overwintering|

In Ethiopia, these farmland birds mostly forage on traditionally managed fields.

Where do breeding Procellaria petrels forage?

By Lily Bentley|2022-12-08T13:00:56+00:0012 Dec 2022|annual cycle, breeding biology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, foraging, habitat selection, IBIS, life history, monitoring, movement, movements, Oceanography, population dynamics, Seabirds, storm-petrels|

Travelling thousands of kilometres to find lunch