passerines Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Winging it

By Ashleigh Marshall|2024-12-19T14:19:54+00:0012 Dec 2024|flexibility, passerines, phenotypic variation, repeatability, sexual dimorphism, sexual selection, trait expression, wing patch size|

European Stonechat white wing patch is a dynamic but consistent trait

Feeling the heat?

By Ashleigh Marshall|2024-10-03T08:55:20+00:003 Oct 2024|captive-bred, climate change, domesticated, eggshell thickness, experiment, heat, passerines, stress, wild-derived|

Decreased eggshell thickness at high ambient temperatures in Zebra Finches

‘The Boss’: factors explaining vocal activity and territorial behaviour

By Adrian Barrero Diego|2024-02-21T17:00:19+00:0019 Feb 2024|birds of conservation concern, competition, passerines, song, steppe birds|

Do intrasexual competition and resource availability modulate territorial displays in a steppe passerine?

Do crossbill calls change over time?

By Ralph Martin|2023-08-07T17:41:54+00:0014 Aug 2023|acoustic monitoring, avian biology, behaviour, bioacoustics, communication, passerines, song|

Covering 58 years of crossbill recordings

How does weather affect songbirds?

By Michael McCloy|2023-08-01T11:11:32+00:007 Aug 2023|avian biology, Breeding, breeding biology, breeding success, passerines|

Analysing avian body condition across the southeastern United States

The genetic tale of Aquatic Warblers

By Justyna Kubacka|2023-07-26T12:48:29+00:0031 Jul 2023|birds of conservation concern, gene flow, genetic diversity, Genetics, passerines, wetlands|

A rare songbird harbours low diversity but excels in gene flow

Being similar, nesting different

By Adrian Barrero Diego|2023-07-19T13:39:05+00:0024 Jul 2023|avian biology, passerines, physiology, plumage, reproductive signalling, woodland birds|

Can the choice of nesting site facilitate species coexistence?

The smell of flycatchers

By Marc Gilles|2023-07-17T11:43:51+00:0020 Jul 2023|avian biology, passerines, physiology, plumage, reproductive signalling, woodland birds|

Chemical analysis reveals social information in preen oil

Camelthorns and Blackthorns vital for Babblers

By Kim-Kelly Hunt|2023-07-11T09:54:40+00:0017 Jul 2023|Africa, ecology, foraging, passerines, reproduction|

Southern Pied Babbler reproduction possibly decoupled from rainfall and rather cued by tree resources

Omnivory in wild birds

By Simon Ojodomo Godday|2023-06-30T09:56:19+00:0010 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, experiment, invertebrates, passerines|

Are Village Weavers obligate omnivores?

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