island birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Shiny feathers in the mountains

By Chih-Ming Hung|2021-09-30T11:45:55+00:0020 Sep 2021|adaptation, alpine birds, avian biology, colouration, communication, diversification, evolution, feathers, forest birds, IBIS, island birds, passerines, phenotypic variation, plumage, population divergence, ultraviolet light|

Mountain babblers reflect more UV light than lowland babblers

Rapid morphological evolution on remote islands

By Chentao Wei|2021-07-15T18:47:32+00:0022 Jul 2021|BOU-funded, evolution, genetic diversity, Genetics, island birds, morphology, phylogeny, population divergence, Taxonomy|

Resolving the taxonomic status of an island dwarfism warbler population

Avian malaria and the Society Islands

By Ashley Sendell-Price|2021-06-02T07:35:54+00:0024 May 2021|avian malaria, island birds, parasites|

Assessing the prevalence and distribution of Plasmodium and Haemoproteus within the introduced avifauna of French Polynesia

Extinction-in-progress in Indonesia

By Jente Ottenburghs|2021-04-07T10:25:54+00:008 Apr 2021|biodiversity, Conservation, diversification, endemic, Genetics, island birds, morphology|

A unique population on the island Simeulue is already extinct in the wild.

Oceanography and the migration ecology of seabirds

By Chris Redfern|2021-03-04T09:05:41+00:008 Mar 2021|foraging, geolocator, island birds, Migration, Oceanography, Roseate Tern, Seabirds, wintering|

Oceanographic factors defining the migration ecology of one of Europe’s rarest breeding seabirds

Parent-offspring conflict in Leach’s Storm-Petrels

By Lisa Elliot|2021-02-26T17:15:36+00:004 Mar 2021|eggs, feathers, incubation, island birds, Seabirds, storm-petrels, trade-offs|

Identifying a trade-off between self-maintenance and incubation

Getting near the Noddies

By Jente Ottenburghs|2020-12-22T15:05:46+00:0022 Oct 2020|behaviour, Disturbance, island birds, Seabirds|

Human visits to remote islands affect the behaviour of breeding Brown Noddies.

Of rats and men

By Brian Gill|2020-12-15T14:41:16+00:0030 Dec 2019|Conservation, invasive predators, island birds|

A bird-related parable for the environmental crisis

Darwin’s finches adapting to human influences

By Kiyoko Gotanda|2020-12-15T16:59:27+00:009 Dec 2019|antipredator behaviour, behaviour, BOU-funded, invasive predators, island birds, urbanization|

Can Darwin’s finches adapt to invasive predators and urbanization?

Battle of the sexes

By Darren O’Connell|2020-12-16T14:49:46+00:006 May 2019|competition, island birds, morphological niche, sexual dimorphism|

Niche contraction in females but not males in high density island populations