invertebrates Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

The impact of DDT on Spanish Blackbirds

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2024-01-29T10:25:12+00:0011 Jan 2024|habitat degradation, insecticide, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling, parasites, Urban birds|

Birds in natural areas are exposed to more pesticides

Omnivory in wild birds

By Simon Ojodomo Godday|2023-06-30T09:56:19+00:0010 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, experiment, invertebrates, passerines|

Are Village Weavers obligate omnivores?

Hawfinch diet in a nutshell

By Ewan Stenhouse|2023-06-22T13:00:59+00:006 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, distribution, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fecal DNA, fieldwork, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling, passerines, woodland birds|

Using genetic techniques to gain unprecedented ecological knowledge of Hawfinches

Do shrub-steppe passerines share food?

By Julia Zurdo|2023-03-10T18:26:50+00:0013 Mar 2023|diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, Genetics, IBIS, invertebrates, passerines|

Using DNA metabarcoding to describe diet and niche overlap in a steppe passerine assemblage

Birds in cocoa farms: a sweet deal

By Crinan Jarrett|2023-01-08T13:11:03+00:002 Feb 2023|Africa, agriculture, biodiversity, community ecology, displacement, ecology, experiment, fieldwork, forest birds, invertebrates, population dynamics, tropical birds|

Birds and bats regulate pest populations in African cocoa farms

An inordinate fondness for moths

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-12-14T11:04:38+00:0015 Dec 2022|diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, fecal DNA, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling|

Genetic analyses provide insights into the diet of Eurasian Nightjars.

Impacts of parasitic flies on nestlings

By Exequiel Gonzalez|2022-02-14T11:17:57+00:0014 Feb 2022|avian biology, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, fledgling survival, invertebrates, nestling growth, nestling survival, nestlings, parasites, parasitism, passerines|

Addressing how the nestlings of three species that differ in body size are affected

Growing up in a warming Arctic

By Thomas Lameris|2022-01-04T17:36:52+00:0010 Jan 2022|breeding biology, camouflage, climate, climate change, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, fieldwork, global change, invertebrates, migrant, nestling growth, phenology, reproduction, shorebirds, Tundra, waders|

How do shorebird chicks cope with less food and increasing temperatures?

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?