IBIS Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Evaluating the Kentish Plover stronghold

By Grant McDonald|2022-05-14T20:39:16+00:0016 May 2022|arid zone, climate change, Conservation, distribution, ecology, fieldwork, habitat, IBIS, passive monitoring, populations, shorebirds|

Widespread distribution but low numbers across a presumed species stronghold

Overlooked diversity in a European context

By Manuel Schweizer|2022-04-29T15:29:48+00:009 May 2022|cryptic, diversification, diversity, DNA sequencing, evolution, genetic diversity, Genetics, IBIS, Mediterranean forest, museum collections, phylogeny, population structure, Speciation, Taxonomy|

Genome-wide data uncovers two morphologically cryptic lineages in the Middle Spotted Woodpecker

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

Competition for food in artificial mixed colonies

By João Gameiro|2022-04-15T11:26:17+00:0018 Apr 2022|adaptation, bird assemblages, bird communities, communal, community ecology, diet, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, nest monitoring, nesting, nestlings, niche overlap, population structure, stable isotopes|

Do birds in artificial mixed colonies overlap in their diet?

How do territorial songbirds convey aggression?

By Sean Roach|2022-04-11T15:40:14+00:0011 Apr 2022|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, ecology, IBIS, passerines, song, sound|

An examination of overlapping, matching, and unique song forms

Dancing after sex

By Anastasia Dalziell|2022-03-25T17:20:21+00:0028 Mar 2022|behaviour, bird song, breeding biology, communication, IBIS, mate selection, pair communications, passerines, plumage, reproductive signalling, sensory ecology, tropical birds, vocalisations|

Male Superb Lyrebirds perform a bizarre audio-visual display, after copulation

Urban raptors are small(-ish) generalists

By Daniel S. Cooper|2022-03-20T16:13:14+00:0021 Mar 2022|adaptation, bird assemblages, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, citizen science, ecology, IBIS, modelling, occurrence data, open source, plumage, population structure, raptors|

Community science data from cities on multiple continents reveal size and ecological traits that correspond to urban abundance

Can AI save the birds?

By Xuan Zhang|2022-03-01T13:22:56+00:003 Mar 2022|birds of conservation concern, Conservation, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, life history, machine learning, modelling, population dynamics, technology|

A journey to combine data science with conservation biology

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?

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