nest monitoring Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Can squatters bring benefits?

By Anthony Lowney|2024-04-08T10:41:36+00:008 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+00:005 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+00:005 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+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?

Competition for food in artificial mixed colonies

By João Gameiro|2022-04-15T11:26:17+00:0018 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.

The colour of Blue Manakin eggs

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-02-05T12:37:51+00:0010 Feb 2022|adaptation, Breeding, camara traps, camouflage, eggs, experiment, nest monitoring, nest predation, tropical birds|

Could these colour patterns function as camouflage?

Cheating Red-footed Falcons

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-12-28T16:32:07+00:0030 Dec 2021|birds of prey, breeding biology, extra pair paternity, nest monitoring, raptors|

Researchers count the number of extra-pair offspring in this falcon species.

Attacking the Common Cuckoo

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-11-18T10:17:25+00:0018 Nov 2021|behaviour, brood parasitism, eggs, nest monitoring, reproduction|

Host aggression affects the speed of egg-laying.

Untangling the problem of plastic nests

By Nina O'Hanlon|2021-08-27T08:32:12+00:0030 Aug 2021|bird-human interactions, fisheries, nest monitoring, nesting, nesting material, plastics, pollution, Seabirds|

Can an opportunistic approach be used to measure plastic pollution?