island birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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

Mice wreak havoc for South Atlantic seabirds

By Christina Ieronymidou|2018-10-22T10:00:33+00:0022 Oct 2018|Conservation, island birds, Seabirds|

Invasive mice kill nearly 2 million birds a year on Gough Island

Rail connections in the Pacific

By Christina Ieronymidou|2017-11-13T07:35:40+00:0013 Nov 2017|diversification, gene flow, island birds|

Gene flow and island endemism in the Buff-banded Rail

The real treasure of Juan Fernández

By Christina Ieronymidou|2020-09-22T13:52:03+00:0024 Apr 2017|competition, forest birds, hummingbirds, island birds|

Does a congeneric competitor affect the Critically Endangered Juan Fernández Firecrown?