habitat selection Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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.

Hide and creep

By Juho Jolkkonen|2022-02-28T10:02:57+00:0028 Feb 2022|adaptation, antipredator behaviour, avian biology, behaviour, camouflage, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, fieldwork, habitat selection, IBIS, passerines, plumage, selection, woodland birds|

The Eurasian Treecreeper is well camouflaged – or is it?

On the hunt for winter sun

By Connor Panter|2022-01-31T19:27:21+00:003 Feb 2022|behaviour, bird movements, birds of prey, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, foraging resource limitation, gps tags, habitat selection, illegal killing, land management, land use, migrant, mortality, movements, overwintering, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, winter|

Exploring drivers of Red Kite space use in winter

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

A warbler’s choice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-01-10T14:42:34+00:0013 Jan 2022|acoustic monitoring, breeding biology, communication, experiment, habitat selection, sound, territoriality|

How do Black-and-white Warblers select a breeding location?

Surfing the blue wave

By Marta Acácio|2021-11-15T10:37:43+00:0018 Oct 2021|Africa, bird movements, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, movements, satellite tracking, waterbirds, wetlands|

Do changes in surface water drive the movements of Shoebills?

Any way the wind blows

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-10-04T19:08:50+00:007 Oct 2021|behaviour, breeding biology, distribution, habitat selection, Seabirds|

Exploring the role of wind in the habitat choice of seabirds.

Modelling suitable vulture breeding areas on Sardinia

By Fiammetta Berlinguer|2021-09-30T13:02:22+00:0027 Sep 2021|Bayesian modelling, birds of prey, habitat selection, IBIS, nesting, nesting success, reproduction, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Bayesian hierarchical modelling identifies predictors of reproductive success in Griffon Vultures

Pheasants in the mountains

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-07-01T07:12:23+00:001 Jul 2021|behaviour, camara traps, competition, habitat selection, niche overlap|

How can three pheasant species coexist on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?

Little Bustards and where to find them

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:40:46+00:002 Jul 2020|agriculture, Breeding, Conservation, habitat selection, News|

Do males and females select the same habitats?