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The Hidden Past of the Macleay Kākāpō

By Lindsey Gray|2023-01-17T09:51:56+00:0016 Jan 2023|avian biology, forest birds, Genetics, island birds, museum collections, natural history, parrot, population divergence, Psittaciformes|

Can 21st century science decipher the murky origins of a collection of 19th century endangered parrots?

Genes of a feather flock together?

By Kurt Burnham|2022-12-18T10:58:09+00:002 Jan 2023|avian biology, bird assemblages, colonial birds, Genetics, global change, IBIS, island birds, phenotypic variation, physiology, population structure, puffins, Seabirds, Tundra, waterbirds|

An unexpected correlation between body size and subspecies designation within a single puffin colony in High Arctic Greenland. A result of climate change?

Where the wind is just right

By Mia Momberg|2022-10-08T13:04:17+00:0010 Oct 2022|birds of conservation concern, Breeding, climate, flight, IBIS, island birds, nest-site limitation, nesting, reproduction, Seabirds, soaring birds, weather, wind|

Investigating the factors determining Wandering Albatross nest-site selection

Azorean Woodcocks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-09-19T10:40:24+00:0022 Sep 2022|dispersal, diversification, gene flow, genetic diversity, Genetics, island birds, Migration, population divergence, ringing|

Is there gene flow between the Azores and mainland Europe?

A migratory divide in the Far East

By Toru Nakahara|2022-08-19T10:59:14+00:0022 Aug 2022|bio-logging, bird movements, birds of prey, distribution, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, island birds, movement, movements, population structure, raptors, satellite tracking, soaring birds, Taxonomy|

Migration routes of the two Eastern Buzzard subspecies are separated along the Sea of Japan

Same strategy as last year?

By Kirsty Franklin|2022-04-27T20:49:48+00:002 May 2022|behaviour, bird movements, BOU Warham Student, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, islands birds, Migration, movements, phenology, Round Island petrel, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tropical birds|

Tropical seabirds show high consistency of migratory behaviours despite often weak seasonal predictability of resources

The migration of the Canarian Houbara Bustard

By Inmaculada Abril-Colón|2022-04-21T10:11:43+00:0025 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, land use, Migration, movements, nocturnal birds, protected areas, satellite tracking, short-distance migration|

Short-distance nocturnal migration in an island endemic bustard

Breaking into the Major Histocompatibility Complex

By Alexandra McCubbin|2022-03-16T13:15:13+00:0017 Mar 2022|avian biology, BOU-funded, diversification, DNA sequencing, early career, ecology, ECR, endemic, genetic diversity, Genetics, genomics, island birds, storm-petrels|

The novel detection of two MHC lineages in Hydrobates storm petrels on the Azores

Decline of the double-mutualists

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-03-06T13:21:25+00:0010 Mar 2022|bird communities, community ecology, endemic, island birds, seed dispersal, species interactions|

Loss of native bird species affects plant reproduction in New Zealand.

Surviving in the colonies

By Guy Beauchamp|2022-02-18T09:35:06+00:0017 Feb 2022|bird communities, breeding biology, colonial birds, communal, cooperative breeding, ecology, IBIS, island birds, life history, longevity, parental care, scavengers, Seabirds|

How does breeding in colonies influence annual survival in birds?