populations 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

From cliffs to pylons

By Mátyás Prommer|2025-10-02T12:56:36+01:006 Oct 2025|birds of prey, population recovery, population size, populations, raptors|

How Peregrine Falcons reclaimed Hungary

Parrot poaching in Peru and Ecuador

By Pedro Romero-Vidal|2023-06-06T14:25:56+01:008 Jun 2023|bird-human interactions, early-career researcher, ECR, endangered, fieldwork, morphology, Neotropics, parrot, populations, Psittaciformes, road ecology, survey|

Preferred species poached far beyond their abundances in the wild

Europe-wide demography of Eurasian Curlew

By Duarte Viana|2023-03-24T12:50:30+00:0030 Mar 2023|Breeding, breeding success, demography, ecology, IBIS, nest predation, population dynamics, population structure, populations, waders, waterbirds|

Are population size trends consistent with available demographic data?

The rise of passive acoustic monitoring

By Oliver Metcalf|2023-03-17T11:39:46+00:0020 Mar 2023|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, biodiversity, bird assemblages, diversity, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, habitat restoration, impact assessment, monitoring, passive acoustic monitoring, populations, recording, song, vocalisations|

Using passive acoustic monitoring for surveying birds in the UK

Robins on East Asian islands

By Shin-Ichi Seki|2023-03-01T10:38:05+00:002 Mar 2023|alpine birds, distribution, diversity, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, evolution, fieldwork, forest birds, Genetics, IBIS, island birds, migrant, passerines, population structure, populations|

Genetic differentiation in volcanic islands branching off from the mainland

If a bird calls in the forest…

By Brandon Edwards|2023-02-21T10:43:49+00:0027 Feb 2023|biomonitoring, bird assemblages, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, modelling, monitoring, populations|

A collaborative effort to estimate detection probabilities for all North American landbirds

Counting flamingos with drones

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-10-06T09:58:12+01:006 Oct 2022|biomonitoring, citizen science, fieldwork, image processing, populations, sensory ecology, technology|

Semi-automated processing of drone pictures significantly speeds up the process.

The mixed-up world of swifts

By Alice Cibois|2022-07-13T11:39:17+01:0018 Jul 2022|avian biology, cryptic, diversity, DNA barcoding, flight, gene flow, genetic diversity, Genetics, hybridization, hybrids, IBIS, population dynamics, population structure, populations|

Two species of swifts hybridize with each other in an unsuspected way

Human threats to British raptors

By Connor Panter|2022-07-08T12:43:36+01:007 Jul 2022|adult survival, biodiversity, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, disease, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, illegal killing, monitoring, mortality, population dynamics, populations, raptors, rehabilitation, road traffic, survival, volunteers|

What are the main threats to British raptors and have these changed over time?