island birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Weighing the Great Auk

By Tim Birkhead|2024-08-27T18:04:48+00:0029 Jul 2024|body condition, island birds, morphology, museum collections|

New evidence suggests that the Great Auk was not nearly as heavy as previously thought

Natural laboratories and evolutionary sinks

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-05-30T11:46:28+00:0030 May 2024|Crete, Cyprus, genetic differentiation, island birds, island endemics, islands, population structure, RAD sequencing|

Contrasting patterns of divergence among island and mainland birds of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Understanding migration in ocean environments

By Paige Green|2024-03-04T22:06:57+00:005 Feb 2024|bird movements, BOU members, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, island birds, Migration, News, penguins, publications, remote sensing|

LINKED THESIS Following in the Footsteps of John Warham: [...]

Understanding migration in ocean environments

By Kirsty Franklin|2023-10-30T08:39:54+00:0030 Oct 2023|bird movements, BOU members, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, island birds, Migration, News, publications, remote sensing, Round Island petrel, RSPB science, satellite tracking|

Long-term tracking of Round Island petrels across the Indian Ocean

Do geolocators affect the survival of petrels?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-09-17T12:45:57+00:0021 Sep 2023|adult survival, bio-logging, geolocator, gps tags, island birds, life history, mark‐recapture, Round Island petrel, Seabirds|

A long-term dataset of Trindade Petrels finds no clear effect.

Being larger against all odds

By Alejandro Martínez Abraín|2023-08-10T08:27:16+00:003 Aug 2023|avian biology, demography, island birds, morphology, Seabirds|

Mediterranean Yellow-legged Gulls are larger and have longer wings than their Cantabrian-Atlantic conspecifics

A Fairy Tern tale

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-05-03T07:06:41+00:004 May 2023|Conservation, diversification, DNA sequencing, endangered, gene flow, genetic diversity, island birds, population divergence, Seabirds|

What is the genetic status of the New Zealand population?

Doves of a feather flock together

By Will Smith|2023-04-12T10:20:50+00:0013 Apr 2023|bird assemblages, citizen science, colouration, connectivity, distribution, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, fieldwork, Genetics, hybridization, hybrids, IBIS, island birds, plumage, population structure, range expansion|

Can we distinguish Rock Doves from feral pigeons using plumage?

Extremely low genetic diversity in the Seychelles Magpie-Robin

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-02-28T12:43:54+00:009 Mar 2023|Conservation, DNA sequencing, endangered, genetic diversity, island birds, population recovery, re-introduction|

New genetic techniques can inform future translocations.

Robins on East Asian islands

By Shin-Ichi Seki|2023-03-01T10:38:05+00:002 Mar 2023|alpine birds, distribution, diversity, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, evolution, fieldwork, forest birds, Genetics, IBIS, island birds, migrant, passerines, population structure, populations|

Genetic differentiation in volcanic islands branching off from the mainland