sensory ecology Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Avian eggs and calibrated digital photography

By Klaudia Szala|2023-08-15T10:46:11+00:0021 Aug 2023|camouflage, colouration, early-career researcher, ECR, eggs, experiment, sensory ecology|

How varied light affects colour and pattern measurements of eggshells?

How do urban birds settle fights under noise?

By Çağla Önsal (she/her)|2022-10-08T14:43:57+00:0013 Oct 2022|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bird song, communication, competition, Disturbance, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, garden birds, habitat, noise pollution, passerines, sensory ecology, song, sound|

Loud cities reshape communication and aggressive behaviour in European Robins

Counting flamingos with drones

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-10-06T09:58:12+00:006 Oct 2022|biomonitoring, citizen science, fieldwork, image processing, populations, sensory ecology, technology|

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

Dancing after sex

By Anastasia Dalziell|2022-03-25T17:20:21+00:0028 Mar 2022|behaviour, bird song, breeding biology, communication, IBIS, mate selection, pair communications, passerines, plumage, reproductive signalling, sensory ecology, tropical birds, vocalisations|

Male Superb Lyrebirds perform a bizarre audio-visual display, after copulation

How important is smell to birds?

By Robert Driver|2021-09-30T13:00:50+00:0013 Sep 2021|avian biology, evolution, Genetics, genomics, olfaction, sensory ecology, smell|

Genes used to detect odours are numerous in birds

Birds’ eye views

By Graham R. Martin|2021-08-20T07:35:21+00:0027 Mar 2017|bird vision, sensory ecology, vultures|

Sensory ecology sharpens ideas about the worlds that birds inhabit