islands Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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.

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

Risk-takers breed earlier

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-12-11T11:39:19+00:0016 Dec 2021|breeding biology, breeding success, competition, forest birds, islands, life history, personality|

But does early breeding also provide any benefits?

From PenguinWatch to PetrelWatch!

By Kirsty Franklin|2021-01-04T16:54:14+00:0021 Dec 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, citizen science, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

If you have ever wanted to visit an Indian Ocean seabird colony, here is a chance to do so – albeit remotely.

Round Island fieldwork

By Kirsty Franklin|2020-10-07T08:08:01+00:0020 Feb 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

Warham PhD Student Kirsty Franklin, tells us about her first field season in the Indian Ocean

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?