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Genes of a feather flock together?

By Kurt Burnham|2022-12-18T10:58:09+00:002 Jan 2023|avian biology, bird assemblages, colonial birds, Genetics, global change, IBIS, island birds, phenotypic variation, physiology, population structure, puffins, Seabirds, Tundra, waterbirds|

An unexpected correlation between body size and subspecies designation within a single puffin colony in High Arctic Greenland. A result of climate change?

How can the past inform reintroductions?

By Jennifer Crees|2023-01-17T10:39:06+00:0019 Dec 2022|climate change, distribution, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, migrant, museum collections, reintroduction, vagrancy, waterbirds, wetlands|

A history of the Dalmatian Pelican in Britain and what we can learn for the future of the species

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

Fidelity or divorce? The dilemma of Jaegers

By Yannick Seyer|2022-12-05T12:01:41+00:008 Dec 2022|adult survival, annual cycle, breeding biology, colour ringing/banding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, life history, mark‐recapture, monitoring, mortality, movements, pair-bond, phenotypic variation, population dynamics, reproduction, Seabirds, site fidelity, Tundra|

How faithful are Arctic migratory seabirds to mates and breeding sites?

Can magpies tell friend from foe?

By Grace Blackburn|2022-11-28T11:42:26+00:005 Dec 2022|behaviour, bird communities, communal, communication, communications, corvids, early-career researcher, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, IBIS, personality, population dynamics, population structure, sound, territoriality, vocalisations|

Can Western Australian Magpies distinguish between songs of groupmates and non-groupmates?

Colour-by-stressor?

By Alana Krug-MacLeod (she/her)|2022-11-18T20:49:15+00:0024 Nov 2022|adaptation, avian biology, colouration, corticosterone, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, physiology, shorebirds|

Pre-hatch temperature stress linked to bird colouration in adulthood

Where do Barbary Reed Warblers overwinter?

By Frédéric Jiguet|2022-11-07T15:06:03+00:0014 Nov 2022|adult survival, Africa, bio-logging, distribution, geolocator, IBIS, migrant, Migration, movement, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, passerines, population dynamics, ringing, stable isotopes, tracking|

Geolocators and stable isotopes reveal the African wintering grounds of this long-hidden European species

How is climate change affecting Bearded Vulture ranges?

By Tulsi Subedi|2022-11-07T10:13:16+00:0010 Nov 2022|adaptation, Africa, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, climate, climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, habitat, Himalayan birds, IBIS, modelling, raptors, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Modelling Bearded Vulture distributions under various climate scenarios

Does urban breeding influence gull foraging?

By Liam Langley|2022-10-27T16:18:10+00:0031 Oct 2022|adaptation, behaviour, bird movements, bird-human interactions, colonial birds, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, foraging, habitat selection, IBIS, movements, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tracking, Urban birds|

Urban and coastal breeding Lesser Black-backed Gulls segregate by foraging habitat

Fatty acid composition of migratory passerines

By Pedro Miguel Araújo|2022-10-23T21:00:02+00:0024 Oct 2022|adaptation, adult survival, avian biology, bird movements, IBIS, metabolism, migrant, Migration, passerines|

Do fatty acid profiles vary accordingly in migratory passerines?