shorebirds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Sniff test for plover chicks

By Marc Gilles|2025-03-31T16:41:10+00:0031 Mar 2025|breeding biology, early-career researcher, shorebirds|

Can chicks recognise their parents by smell?

Does preen oil matter for incubation?

By Marc Gilles|2025-03-24T18:17:03+00:0017 Feb 2025|breeding biology, early-career researcher, shorebirds|

Kentish plovers show no sex difference in preen oil — but why?

Last of the Curlews: Part II

By Alex Berryman|2024-11-18T12:48:04+00:0018 Nov 2024|extinction, shorebirds|

Slender-billed Curlew is extinct – how many shorebirds are next?

Coordination breeds success

By Ashleigh Marshall|2024-08-24T00:10:40+00:0022 Aug 2024|change-over, coordination, crypsis, incubation, nest exchange ritual, parental care, parental cooperation, shorebirds, vocalisations, waders|

Quick but vocal nest relief rituals in cryptically incubating Semipalmated Sandpipers

Sex roles and sex ratios

By Tamás Székely|2023-11-20T09:31:54+00:0020 Nov 2023|Breeding, breeding biology, reproduction, sexual dimorphism, shorebirds|

What do shorebirds teach us about the evolution of breeding systems?

Squeaking shorebird chicks

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-05-31T07:56:30+00:001 Jun 2023|breeding biology, communication, fledglings, nest recording, parental care, shorebirds, vocalisations|

How do vocal traits of plovers and lapwings change with age?

Network analysis for trans-boundary conservation

By Joshua Nightingale|2023-04-07T16:42:45+00:0010 Apr 2023|bio-logging, bird communities, bird movements, bird-human interactions, connectivity, displacement, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, habitat degradation, migrant, movements, noise pollution, shorebirds, urbanization, waders, waterbirds, wetlands|

Incorporating information about bird movements in Environmental Impact Assessments

How to cope when the food changes?

By Joanne Morten|2023-01-17T17:44:20+00:0019 Jan 2023|behaviour, bio-logging, bird movements, colour ringing/banding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, shorebirds, waders, waterbirds|

Foraging behaviours of Eurasian Oystercatchers in the Exe Estuary, Devon

Colour-by-stressor?

By Alana Krug-MacLeod (she/her)|2022-11-18T20:49:15+00:0024 Nov 2022|adaptation, avian biology, colouration, corticosterone, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, physiology, shorebirds|

Pre-hatch temperature stress linked to bird colouration in adulthood

Avian embryos react to predators

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-07-11T14:47:25+00:0014 Jul 2022|antipredator behaviour, behaviour, Breeding, communication, eggs, experiment, incubation, nest predation, shorebirds, vocalisations|

Testing the effects of several predator-related cues on two shorebird species.