non-invasive sampling Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

The impact of DDT on Spanish Blackbirds

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2024-01-29T10:25:12+00:0011 Jan 2024|habitat degradation, insecticide, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling, parasites, Urban birds|

Birds in natural areas are exposed to more pesticides

Hawfinch diet in a nutshell

By Ewan Stenhouse|2023-06-22T13:00:59+00:006 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, distribution, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fecal DNA, fieldwork, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling, passerines, woodland birds|

Using genetic techniques to gain unprecedented ecological knowledge of Hawfinches

An inordinate fondness for moths

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-12-14T11:04:38+00:0015 Dec 2022|diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, fecal DNA, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling|

Genetic analyses provide insights into the diet of Eurasian Nightjars.

City birds have fewer feathers

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-06-04T09:01:28+00:002 Jun 2022|adaptation, Breeding, diet, forest birds, heat, nestlings, non-invasive sampling, thermoregulation, Urban birds|

Could it be due to thermoregulation or food quality?

Droppings and DNA

By Jessica Shyvers|2020-10-09T12:28:15+00:009 Sep 2019|fecal DNA, monitoring, non-invasive sampling, upland birds|

Can non-invasive genetic mark-recapture be used to estimate Sage Grouse abundance?