islands birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Hiding in plain sight

By Colin Miskelly|2025-06-08T17:40:57+00:009 Jun 2025|bird atlas, birds of conservation concern, distribution, DNA barcoding, islands, islands birds, museum collections|

Genetic analyses of museum specimens expands two countries’ bird lists

Tailoring nestbox programmes for target species

By Karleah Berris|2022-06-21T16:57:09+00:0027 Jun 2022|behaviour, birds of conservation concern, Breeding, cavity nesting, ecology, fieldwork, habitat degradation, IBIS, islands birds, monitoring, nest-site limitation, nesting, parrot, Psittaciformes, reproduction|

Glossy Black Cockatoo nestbox use influenced by behaviour and competition

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

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

Double white-eye discovery

By Darren O’Connell|2020-12-15T17:45:34+00:0024 Jun 2019|evolution, islands birds, tropical birds|

Two new bird species from the unique and understudied Sulawesi region

Diet of a threatened island pigeon

By Haruko Ando|2021-11-18T14:53:31+00:0011 Apr 2016|diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, ecology, endangered, foraging, islands birds, pigeon|

Foraging strategy of the Red-headed Wood Pigeon in disturbed islands