land management Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Autumn-sown crops contribute to Mute Swan recovery

By Tiffany Ki|2023-10-12T10:46:56+00:0011 Sep 2023|agriculture, annual cycle, anthropogenic food sources, diet, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, land management, lead poisoning, legislation, monitoring, provisioning, wintering|

Using spatial and temporal variation to understand drivers of change

Global threats to grassland birds

By Christa Beckmann|2023-06-13T13:48:33+00:0019 Jun 2023|agriculture, biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, cerrado, climate change, grassland, grassland birds, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, IBIS, land management, land use|

What are the main threats to declining grassland birds?

Reed management influences breeding performance of Common Cuckoos

By Thomas Mérő|2023-03-03T13:49:08+00:006 Mar 2023|Breeding, brood parasitism, community ecology, Cuckoos, ecology, fieldwork, habitat, habitat selection, land management, nesting success, parasites, parasitism, passerines, wetlands|

Characteristics of habitats occupied by hosts influences survival of unwanted brood parasite youngsters

Ortolan Buntings prefer traditional agriculture

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-12-28T21:34:45+00:0029 Dec 2022|agriculture, bird movements, Farmland birds, geolocator, habitat selection, land management, overwintering|

In Ethiopia, these farmland birds mostly forage on traditionally managed fields.

Foraging ecology of the House Sparrow

By Jan Havlíček|2022-08-08T12:13:16+00:008 Aug 2022|behaviour, Breeding, breeding biology, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ecotone, ECR, Farmland birds, foraging, habitat degradation, habitat fragmentation, IBIS, land management, movements, parental care, passerines, survival, Urban birds, urbanization|

Parents feeding offspring prefer fast-food sources and have to go the extra mile in urban environments

Protecting waders through wetland conservation

By Sean Jellesmark|2022-08-01T14:25:18+00:004 Aug 2022|biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of conservation concern, breeding success, Conservation, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, grassland, habitat restoration, IBIS, impact assessment, land management, marsh birds, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, RSPB science, waders, wetlands|

What works, what does not, and how do we know?

Tracking conservation conflicts

By Jeremy Cusack|2022-02-15T11:55:58+00:007 Feb 2022|Bird Protection, bird-human interactions, Conservation, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, land management, People, persecution, threatened species|

Tracking the escalation and de-escalation of conservation conflicts

On the hunt for winter sun

By Connor Panter|2022-01-31T19:27:21+00:003 Feb 2022|behaviour, bird movements, birds of prey, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, foraging resource limitation, gps tags, habitat selection, illegal killing, land management, land use, migrant, mortality, movements, overwintering, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, winter|

Exploring drivers of Red Kite space use in winter

What future for the British uplands?

By Alistair Crowle|2022-01-19T17:17:47+00:0020 Jan 2022|agriculture, EU, funding, game bird, habitat, habitat degradation, IBIS, land management, land use, legislation, moorland, People, red grouse, upland birds|

Are moorlands destined to be tree and sheep covered or are there alternatives

Where have you Bean Geese?

By Michael Thornton|2022-01-11T13:25:24+00:0017 Jan 2022|bird movements, birds of conservation concern, ecology, Farmland birds, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, grassland birds, habitat selection, land management, migrant, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, satellite tracking, waterbirds|

Tracking Scotland’s population of Taiga Bean Geese Anser fabalis