migrant Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

A Bird in the Hand

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-05-19T22:26:51+00:0019 May 2025|History of Ornithology, migrant, Migration, migration stopover, ringing|

The enduring value of bird observatories

Blinded by the Light

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-02-21T02:48:24+00:0020 Feb 2025|adult survival, History of Ornithology, migrant, Migration|

Lighthouses and lightships were once dangerous to migratory birds but provided some useful early insights into migration

Are they lost?

By Paul Dufour|2025-02-16T17:06:24+00:0010 Feb 2025|bird assemblages, bird trapping, demography, migrant, vagrant birds|

Using age-ratio to investigate the status of two Siberian warblers in Europe

Network analysis for trans-boundary conservation

By Joshua Nightingale|2023-04-07T16:42:45+00:0010 Apr 2023|bio-logging, bird communities, bird movements, bird-human interactions, connectivity, displacement, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, habitat degradation, migrant, movements, noise pollution, shorebirds, urbanization, waders, waterbirds, wetlands|

Incorporating information about bird movements in Environmental Impact Assessments

Robins on East Asian islands

By Shin-Ichi Seki|2023-03-01T10:38:05+00:002 Mar 2023|alpine birds, distribution, diversity, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, evolution, fieldwork, forest birds, Genetics, IBIS, island birds, migrant, passerines, population structure, populations|

Genetic differentiation in volcanic islands branching off from the mainland

Moult terminology

By Yosef Kiat|2023-01-27T14:17:09+00:006 Feb 2023|annual cycle, avian biology, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, IBIS, migrant, Migration, moult, passerines, People|

Let’s make it simpler!

Split flight feathers moult

By Yosef Kiat|2022-12-21T12:02:34+00:009 Jan 2023|Africa, annual cycle, avian biology, early-career researcher, ECR, feathers, IBIS, migrant, Migration, moult, passerines|

A response to time constraints during the main moult period

Ecological interactions at risk

By Pedro Romero-Vidal|2022-12-17T15:06:54+00:005 Jan 2023|anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, foraging, forest birds, habitat degradation, habitat selection, migrant, Neotropics, parrot, Psittaciformes, road ecology, seed dispersal, threatened species, urbanization|

Exotic mammals threaten Araucaria Forests by displacing Austral Parakeets

How can the past inform reintroductions?

By Jennifer Crees|2023-01-17T10:39:06+00:0019 Dec 2022|climate change, distribution, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, migrant, museum collections, reintroduction, vagrancy, waterbirds, wetlands|

A history of the Dalmatian Pelican in Britain and what we can learn for the future of the species

Where do Barbary Reed Warblers overwinter?

By Frédéric Jiguet|2022-11-07T15:06:03+00:0014 Nov 2022|adult survival, Africa, bio-logging, distribution, geolocator, IBIS, migrant, Migration, movement, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, passerines, population dynamics, ringing, stable isotopes, tracking|

Geolocators and stable isotopes reveal the African wintering grounds of this long-hidden European species