Seabirds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Same strategy as last year?

By Kirsty Franklin|2022-04-27T20:49:48+00:002 May 2022|behaviour, bird movements, BOU Warham Student, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, endemic, fieldwork, gps tags, IBIS, island birds, islands, islands birds, Migration, movements, phenology, Round Island petrel, satellite tracking, Seabirds, tropical birds|

Tropical seabirds show high consistency of migratory behaviours despite often weak seasonal predictability of resources

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?

#BOUdiversityBlog

By Lila Buckingham|2021-12-21T09:40:45+00:0023 Dec 2021|BOU, Community, Diversity Blog, equality and diversity, Seabirds|

Putting the E, I & D into seabirds: The Seabird Group’s plan to improve equality, inclusion & diversity

The Great Auk had two brood patches

By Tim Birkhead|2021-10-07T14:44:56+00:0014 Oct 2021|avian biology, IBIS, museum collections, natural history, parental care, physiology, Seabirds|

The Great Auk had two brood patches not one as previously stated

Any way the wind blows

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-10-04T19:08:50+00:007 Oct 2021|behaviour, breeding biology, distribution, habitat selection, Seabirds|

Exploring the role of wind in the habitat choice of seabirds.

The ups and downs of the Common Eider

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-10-04T19:10:56+00:0023 Sep 2021|Bird Protection, demography, mark‐recapture, population dynamics, Seabirds, survival|

An extensive mark-recapture study reports high survival rates for Icelandic birds.

Leg rings and diving behaviour

By Agustina Gómez-Laich|2021-09-28T11:19:54+00:0016 Sep 2021|acceleration, behaviour, bio-logging, colour ringing/banding, foraging, ringing, Seabirds|

Does being ringed affect underwater performance of foraging cormorants?

Untangling the problem of plastic nests

By Nina O'Hanlon|2021-08-27T08:32:12+00:0030 Aug 2021|bird-human interactions, fisheries, nest monitoring, nesting, nesting material, plastics, pollution, Seabirds|

Can an opportunistic approach be used to measure plastic pollution?

Gull’s family dinner

By Rosemarie Kentie|2021-06-19T21:21:11+00:0028 Jun 2021|foraging, Seabirds, stable isotopes|

Do parents of Lesser Black-backed and Herring Gulls adapt their foraging behaviour to their chicks’ needs?

Does albatross allopreening aid parental coordination?

By Natasha Gillies|2021-06-18T07:25:36+00:0021 Jun 2021|behaviour, Breeding, communication, display, mate selection, monogamy, nesting, pair communications, pair-bond, parental care, Seabirds|

Allopreening between pairs of Black-browed Albatross may help them coordinate their care

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