movement Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Unexpected aspects of human-wildlife interactions

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-06-27T14:00:46+00:0027 Jun 2024|anthropogenic habitats, Breeding, gps tags, home range, land-cover association, movement, non-breeding ecology|

Predictable intra-annual variation but unexpected anthropogenic habitat response in Ferruginous Hawk movement behaviour

Fair weather feathered friends

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-05-16T01:04:36+00:0016 May 2024|functional diversity, functional traits, movement, Neotropics, rainforest|

Seasonality in bird community functional structure in the Neotropics

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

No parental supervision required

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-02-16T15:17:35+00:0023 Feb 2023|annual cycle, bio-logging, fledglings, Genetics, Migration, movement, overwintering, Seabirds, tracking|

How do Manx Shearwaters develop their migration routes?

Dominant pigeons move more

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-01-22T12:15:54+00:0026 Jan 2023|behaviour, bio-logging, dominance, metabolism, movement|

Maintaining a dominance hierarchy takes time and energy.

Where do breeding Procellaria petrels forage?

By Lily Bentley|2022-12-08T13:00:56+00:0012 Dec 2022|annual cycle, breeding biology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, foraging, habitat selection, IBIS, life history, monitoring, movement, movements, Oceanography, population dynamics, Seabirds, storm-petrels|

Travelling thousands of kilometres to find lunch

Displacement of auks by offshore wind farms

By Bob Furness|2022-11-18T15:15:35+00:0021 Nov 2022|bio-logging, distribution, geolocator, movement, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, ringing, Seabirds, tracking, wind farms|

Geolocator studies clarify which populations are most at risk

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

A migratory divide in the Far East

By Toru Nakahara|2022-08-19T10:59:14+00:0022 Aug 2022|bio-logging, bird movements, birds of prey, distribution, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, island birds, movement, movements, population structure, raptors, satellite tracking, soaring birds, Taxonomy|

Migration routes of the two Eastern Buzzard subspecies are separated along the Sea of Japan