nest monitoring Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

The Painted Stork: A Bird of Great Charisma

By Abdul Jamil Urfi|2026-06-01T19:02:06+01:0029 Jun 2026|Conservation, nest monitoring, populations|

Conservation research of a common bird like the Painted Stork in India has numerous advantages

Keeping track of a Painted Stork called ‘Ringo’

By Abdul Jamil Urfi|2026-04-05T07:53:36+01:004 May 2026|breeding site fidelity, nest monitoring|

Using Deep Transfer Learning to establish nest site fidelity

A Seabird Success Story? Temporal Monitoring of Kittiwakes and Fulmars in East Iceland

By Anya Shackleton-Jones|2025-11-16T19:54:39+00:0017 Nov 2025|BOU-funded, early-career researcher, nest monitoring, Seabirds|

The BOU Summer Placement Scheme provides financial support for undergraduate students to carry out small summer ornithological research projects. Here Anya Shackleton-Jones provides an account of her time in East Iceland.

Heard and not seen

By Ashleigh Marshall|2025-03-20T16:57:40+00:006 Mar 2025|acoustic monitoring, autonomous recording units, ecological indicators, Florida, monitoring, nest monitoring, passive acoustic monitoring, passive monitoring, waders, wetlands|

Estimating wading bird nest counts using acoustic sampling

Can squatters bring benefits?

By Anthony Lowney|2024-04-08T10:41:36+01:008 Apr 2024|antipredator behaviour, behaviour, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, breeding biology, cooperative breeding, nest monitoring, predation, predator-prey interactions|

Can predator and prey benefit from being neighbours?

Why do shrikes store prey?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-10-01T09:59:15+01:005 Oct 2023|breeding success, diet, fledglings, nest monitoring, nestling provisioning, parental care|

Red-backed Shrikes with larders have nestlings in better condition.

Maternal competitive events influence offspring phenotype

By América Hernández|2022-08-31T17:00:23+01:005 Sep 2022|avian biology, Breeding, breeding biology, cavity nesting, competition, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, eggs, experiment, IBIS, nest monitoring, nest-site limitation, passerines, phenotypic variation|

Compete with me and my progeny will grow faster

Nest-switching Storks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-04-15T09:02:32+01:0021 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?

Competition for food in artificial mixed colonies

By João Gameiro|2022-04-15T11:26:17+01:0018 Apr 2022|adaptation, bird assemblages, bird communities, communal, community ecology, diet, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, nest monitoring, nesting, nestlings, niche overlap, population structure, stable isotopes|

Do birds in artificial mixed colonies overlap in their diet?

Adaptively adjusting sex ratios

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-02-24T16:04:32+00:0024 Feb 2022|Breeding, dispersal, foraging resource limitation, nest monitoring, nestlings, phenology, trade-offs|

Western Bluebirds tend to produce more sons at the start of the breeding season.