movements Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Same strategy as last year?

By Kirsty Franklin|2022-04-27T20:49:48+00:002 May 2022|behaviour, bird movements, BOU Warham Student, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, islands birds, Migration, movements, phenology, Round Island petrel, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tropical birds|

Tropical seabirds show high consistency of migratory behaviours despite often weak seasonal predictability of resources

The migration of the Canarian Houbara Bustard

By Inmaculada Abril-Colón|2022-04-21T10:11:43+00:0025 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, land use, Migration, movements, nocturnal birds, protected areas, satellite tracking, short-distance migration|

Short-distance nocturnal migration in an island endemic bustard

Oystercatchers avoid a disturbed, high tide roost

By Henk-Jan van der Kolk|2022-02-21T10:32:08+00:0021 Feb 2022|behaviour, bio-logging, bird-human interactions, Disturbance, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, gps tags, IBIS, movements, satellite tracking, shorebirds, waders|

High levels of tourism correlate with roost site avoidance

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

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

Surfing the blue wave

By Marta Acácio|2021-11-15T10:37:43+00:0018 Oct 2021|Africa, bird movements, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, movements, satellite tracking, waterbirds, wetlands|

Do changes in surface water drive the movements of Shoebills?

IBIS special issue

By Steve Dudley|2020-10-06T15:11:44+00:0016 Mar 2020|IBIS, Migration, movement, movements, passerines, passive acoustic monitoring, passive monitoring, populations, raptors, Seabirds, special issue|

Avian Migration and Movement

Don’t move. Winter is coming.

By Ron Efrat|2020-10-09T15:12:57+00:0026 Aug 2019|annual cycle, flight, gps tags, Migration, movements, short-distance migration, soaring birds|

What do Dalmatian Pelicans do when it gets cold?

Comparing shorebird survival across the globe

By Verónica Méndez|2021-03-25T21:29:40+00:008 Mar 2018|bird movements, breeding biology, citizen science, colour ringing/banding, ecology, IBIS, Migration, monitoring, movements, population dynamics, shorebirds, survival, tracking, waders|

High adult annual survival rate is critical to population stability, but how do shorebird survival rates vary around the world?

Tracking is 90% catching

By Will Cresswell|2021-06-09T15:20:23+00:0019 Jun 2017|bird movements, geolocator, Mediterranean forest, migrant, Migration, movements, tracking|

To track small birds you need to catch them; twice…