Migration Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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

Shooting for fun

By Mitra Daneshvar|2025-02-17T20:58:33+00:0027 Jan 2025|bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, early-career researcher, Migration, multilingual, persecution, survival|

The Threat of Illegal Hunting to Raptors Migrating through Batumi

Destygmatising Drones

By Zoey Greenberg|2025-01-06T19:55:35+00:006 Jan 2025|adult survival, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, diet, diet composition, Migration, migration stopover|

How they can aid ornithologists around the world

Big advantages at low elevations for resident Red Kites

By Stephanie Witczak|2024-10-28T09:44:26+00:0028 Oct 2024|breeding success, early-career researcher, Migration, reproduction|

Can we explain increasing residency in Swiss Red Kites by examining reproduction?

How Amur Falcons Cross the Arabian Sea

By Zoey Greenberg|2024-10-19T06:05:45+00:0014 Oct 2024|adult survival, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, diet, diet composition, Migration, migration stopover|

Two billion termites in two weeks

Armed Conflicts and Raptors

By Charlie Russell|2024-07-01T10:16:47+00:0027 May 2024|annual cycle, antipredator behaviour, behaviour, bird movements, bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Migration, migration stopover, movements, satellite tracking, war|

How were Greater Spotted Eagles affected by the conflict in Ukraine?

Travel wide, breed hard and die young

By John Calladine|2024-04-26T14:25:38+00:001 Apr 2024|annual cycle, behaviour, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Migration, migration stopover, movements, satellite tracking|

While this might well describe some hedonistic lifestyle of a 1970s rock star, it is also a neat summary of the life history strategy for Short-eared Owls.

Understanding migration in ocean environments

By Paige Green|2024-03-04T22:06:57+00:005 Feb 2024|bird movements, BOU members, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, island birds, Migration, News, penguins, publications, remote sensing|

LINKED THESIS Following in the Footsteps of John Warham: [...]

Wintering patterns in European Common Shelducks

By Dagmar Cimiotti|2023-12-13T12:59:14+00:008 Jan 2024|Migration, moult, movement, wintering|

Long-term monitoring indicates mixed results

Intercontinental collaboration secures a migratory bird population

By The Egyptian Vulture Project Team|2023-12-11T09:06:13+00:0018 Dec 2023|birds of conservation concern, captive-breeding, collaboration, Conservation, gps tags, illegal killing, Migration, monitoring, movement, population recovery, population reinforcement, re-introduction|

The Egyptian Vulture population in Eastern Europe was in freefall - conservationists have now shown that even such globetrotting species can be rescued