protected areas Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Critically Endangered vulture shows resilience

By Zoey Greenberg|2023-10-12T10:44:41+00:0025 Sep 2023|Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, Breeding, breeding success, Conservation, global change, monitoring, protected areas, vultures|

Eleven years of successful nesting suggest protective measures work

Foraging scavengers may be avoiding hordes of tourists

By Ainara Cortés-Avizanda|2022-09-30T19:30:09+00:003 Oct 2022|IBIS, protected areas, raptors, scavengers|

The hidden effects of high numbers of tourists in protected areas

What’s best to conserve UK seabirds?

By Bob Furness|2022-09-23T15:58:03+00:0026 Sep 2022|adult survival, biodiversity, bird assemblages, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, Breeding, competition, Conservation, IBIS, impact, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, Seabirds, waterbirds|

Designating colonies as Special Protection Areas is not enough

Protecting waders through wetland conservation

By Sean Jellesmark|2022-08-01T14:25:18+00:004 Aug 2022|biodiversity, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, birds of conservation concern, breeding success, Conservation, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, grassland, habitat restoration, IBIS, impact assessment, land management, marsh birds, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, RSPB science, waders, wetlands|

What works, what does not, and how do we know?

The migration of the Canarian Houbara Bustard

By Inmaculada Abril-Colón|2022-04-21T10:11:43+00:0025 Apr 2022|behaviour, bird movements, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, land use, Migration, movements, nocturnal birds, protected areas, satellite tracking, short-distance migration|

Short-distance nocturnal migration in an island endemic bustard

Hyacinth Macaw conservation in the Brazilian Pantanal

By Maxwell R. Oliveira|2021-08-03T12:05:44+00:0019 Jul 2021|Bird Protection, cavity nesting, distribution, endangered, grassland, parrot, population structure, protected areas, threatened species, wetlands|

Habitat loss and lack of protected areas threaten the iconic Hyacinth Macaw

Draft obituary for the Masked Finfoot?

By Graham Appleton|2021-03-31T12:48:15+00:005 Apr 2021|Bird Protection, bird-human interactions, endangered, habitat degradation, hunting pressure, persecution, protected areas, wetlands|

A maximum of 300 Masked Finfoots in ten countries

The sound of birds in a world of noise

By Hannah Vincelette|2021-02-12T10:58:33+00:0018 Feb 2021|acoustic monitoring, bird song, Disturbance, noise, noise pollution, protected areas, vocal activity|

Acoustic monitoring enlightens aircraft noise impacts on remote bird communities

The globally threatened Aquatic Warbler

By Janusz Kloskowski|2021-12-05T11:27:46+00:0030 Mar 2015|Breeding, Conservation, foraging, habitat, Migration, protected areas, Science, wetlands|

Do we know enough to save it?

Saving long-term studies

By Tim Birkhead|2021-12-05T13:19:22+00:0010 Nov 2014|Breeding, Conservation, crowd-sourcing, funding, phenology, protected areas, Seabirds, tracking|

Crowd-funding research