passerines Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Breeding Great Tits can be picky

By Marta Olivé Muñiz|2021-10-07T11:20:31+00:0011 Oct 2021|Breeding, breeding biology, cameras, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, forest birds, garden birds, nestling food, passerines, woodland birds|

Prey selection in breeding Great Tits is moderately consistent over years

Shiny feathers in the mountains

By Chih-Ming Hung|2021-09-30T11:45:55+00:0020 Sep 2021|adaptation, alpine birds, avian biology, colouration, communication, diversification, evolution, feathers, forest birds, IBIS, island birds, passerines, phenotypic variation, plumage, population divergence, ultraviolet light|

Mountain babblers reflect more UV light than lowland babblers

Rockjumpers can’t escape their (taxonomic) roots

By Krista N Oswald|2021-03-26T13:01:28+00:0029 Mar 2021|passerines, phylogeny, physiology, Taxonomy, temperature, thermal stress|

Metabolic patterns are explained by season and phylogeny

Maintaining humidity in a leaky nest

By Charles Deeming|2020-12-22T15:03:21+00:002 Nov 2020|incubation, incubation attentiveness, nest humidity, nesting material, passerines|

How do birds control humidity if nest walls are so leaky?

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