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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

Sedentary or migratory?

By Jorge García-Macía|2022-07-27T16:23:18+00:0025 Jul 2022|Breeding, breeding biology, Migration, migratory connectivity, movement, plasticity, raptors, wintering|

Recent studies reveal a huge variability in birds’ strategies

Gulls follow the harvest cycle of rice

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-05-03T13:06:43+00:005 May 2022|agriculture, anthropogenic food sources, behaviour, bird movements, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, land use, movement, overwintering, plastics, pollution, remote sensing, tracking, water quality|

Human activities determine the daily schedule of overwintering birds in Spain.

Nest-switching Storks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-15T09:02:32+00:0021 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, Breeding, displacement, Genetics, gps tags, movement, nest monitoring, nestlings, occurrence data, population dynamics, ringing, tracking|

What is the best method to quantify the frequency of nest-switching?

Connecting vultures to the Internet of Things

By Jethro Gauld|2023-10-16T08:49:19+00:0020 Dec 2021|bio-logging, birds of prey, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, gps tags, movement, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, tracking, vultures|

A new way to track bird movements using a growing LoRa network