island birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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

The perks of being a mainland species on an oceanic island

By Julio C. Gallardo|2020-12-16T14:52:35+00:0022 Apr 2019|island birds, islands, population dynamics, raptors, tropical birds|

What does seasonal population matrix modelling reveal for the Red‐tailed Hawk in Puerto Rico?

Prioritising the world’s islands to save threatened biodiversity

By Steffen Oppel|2020-10-12T13:29:27+00:0028 Mar 2019|Conservation, island birds, islands, News, RSPB science, Seabirds|

But how?

Kingfisher evolution in the Wallacea region

By Darren O’Connell|2020-12-21T18:23:59+00:005 Nov 2018|competition, evolution, island birds|

Differing responses of closely related migratory and resident species