scavengers Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

What shapes Griffon Vultures’ social networks?

By Orr Spiegel|2023-06-13T22:32:49+00:0022 Jun 2023|behaviour, bird movements, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, communication, flight, gps tags, movements, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Vultures’ social interactions across different situations matter for their population structure

How is climate change affecting Bearded Vulture ranges?

By Tulsi Subedi|2022-11-07T10:13:16+00:0010 Nov 2022|adaptation, Africa, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, climate, climate change, distribution, ecology, global change, habitat, Himalayan birds, IBIS, modelling, raptors, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Modelling Bearded Vulture distributions under various climate scenarios

Changes in societal attitudes towards wildlife in Spain

By Juan Jiménez|2022-11-03T12:52:42+00:007 Nov 2022|adult survival, bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, birds of prey, collision, illegal killing, mortality, owls, passerines, persecution, raptors, rehabilitation, road traffic, scavengers, survival, Urban birds, urbanization|

An assessment using admissions to wildlife recovery centres

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

Spotting tagged birds from photographs

By Andrea Santangeli|2022-07-19T09:59:44+00:0021 Jul 2022|camara traps, cameras, IBIS, image processing, machine learning, monitoring, raptors, remote sensing, scavengers, vultures|

Using artificial intelligence to identify tagged birds in camera trap images

Surviving in the colonies

By Guy Beauchamp|2022-02-18T09:35:06+00:0017 Feb 2022|bird communities, breeding biology, colonial birds, communal, cooperative breeding, ecology, IBIS, island birds, life history, longevity, parental care, scavengers, Seabirds|

How does breeding in colonies influence annual survival in birds?

On the hunt for winter sun

By Connor Panter|2022-01-31T19:27:21+00:003 Feb 2022|behaviour, bird movements, birds of prey, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, foraging resource limitation, gps tags, habitat selection, illegal killing, land management, land use, migrant, mortality, movements, overwintering, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, winter|

Exploring drivers of Red Kite space use in winter

Connecting vultures to the Internet of Things

By Jethro Gauld|2023-10-16T08:49:19+00:0020 Dec 2021|bio-logging, birds of prey, BOU-funded, early career, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, gps tags, movement, raptors, satellite tracking, scavengers, soaring birds, tracking, vultures|

A new way to track bird movements using a growing LoRa network

Humans, conservation and endangered species

By Jon Morant|2021-11-15T10:35:16+00:0025 Oct 2021|breeding success, collaboration, Conservation, early-career researcher, ECR, endangered, People, raptors, scavengers, soaring birds|

Improving coexistence between endangered species and humans in anthropogenic landscapes

Modelling suitable vulture breeding areas on Sardinia

By Fiammetta Berlinguer|2021-09-30T13:02:22+00:0027 Sep 2021|Bayesian modelling, birds of prey, habitat selection, IBIS, nesting, nesting success, reproduction, scavengers, soaring birds, vultures|

Bayesian hierarchical modelling identifies predictors of reproductive success in Griffon Vultures