Seabirds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Oceanography and the migration ecology of seabirds

By Chris Redfern|2021-03-04T09:05:41+00:008 Mar 2021|foraging, geolocator, island birds, Migration, Oceanography, Roseate Tern, Seabirds, wintering|

Oceanographic factors defining the migration ecology of one of Europe’s rarest breeding seabirds

Parent-offspring conflict in Leach’s Storm-Petrels

By Lisa Elliot|2021-02-26T17:15:36+00:004 Mar 2021|eggs, feathers, incubation, island birds, Seabirds, storm-petrels, trade-offs|

Identifying a trade-off between self-maintenance and incubation

Long journey to the King Penguins

By Émile Brisson-Curadeau|2021-01-26T06:26:57+00:001 Feb 2021|BOU Warham Student, breeding biology, climate change, fieldwork, foraging, Seabirds|

Our third BOU John & Pat Warham Student, Émile Brisson-Curadeau, tells us about remote fieldwork at the Ratmanoff King Penguin colony

Tracking the elusive Manx Shearwater

By Saskia Wischnewski|2021-01-04T17:00:55+00:0028 Dec 2020|Seabirds, tracking|

The Irish record breakers

From PenguinWatch to PetrelWatch!

By Kirsty Franklin|2021-01-04T16:54:14+00:0021 Dec 2020|BOU, BOU Warham Student, BOU-funded, Breeding, breeding biology, camara traps, citizen science, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, hybridization, islands, islands birds, monitoring, passive monitoring, remote sensing, Seabirds|

If you have ever wanted to visit an Indian Ocean seabird colony, here is a chance to do so – albeit remotely.

Daily life of an urban gull

By Anouk Spelt|2020-12-22T15:01:50+00:009 Nov 2020|anthropogenic food sources, foraging, Seabirds, Urban birds|

Do gulls adapt their foraging schedule to humans?

Getting near the Noddies

By Jente Ottenburghs|2020-12-22T15:05:46+00:0022 Oct 2020|behaviour, Disturbance, island birds, Seabirds|

Human visits to remote islands affect the behaviour of breeding Brown Noddies.

GULLible: Our addiction to plastic

By Lillian Stewart|2020-12-22T16:39:36+00:0028 Sep 2020|plastics, pollution, Seabirds|

Consumption rate of anthropogenic debris in Tasmanian gulls exceeds 90%

The rise of the Inca Empire was partly driven by seabird guano

By Jente Ottenburghs|2020-12-15T12:34:51+00:0027 Aug 2020|Bird Protection, colonial birds, Conservation, News, Seabirds|

The Incas implemented the first conservation measures in human history to protect the seabird colonies that provided the guano.

The smallest Mediterranean seabird makes the longest foraging trips

By Andreu Rotger|2020-10-05T20:27:01+00:0010 Aug 2020|foraging, gps tags, Seabirds, tracking|

Mediterranean Storm Petrels travel more than 1,500 km in 3-4 days

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