soaring birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

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

Colouration in Bearded Vultures

By Pascual López-López|2022-02-03T14:35:55+00:0031 Jan 2022|avian biology, birds of prey, communication, IBIS, non-vocal communication, plumage, raptors, reproductive signalling, soaring birds, vultures|

Dominant females are usually darker and prefer darker males for breeding: a new study on bird colouration

Connecting vultures to the Internet of Things

By Jethro Gauld|2021-12-21T12:08:29+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

Don’t move. Winter is coming.

By Ron Efrat|2020-10-09T15:12:57+00:0026 Aug 2019|annual cycle, flight, gps tags, Migration, movements, short-distance migration, soaring birds|

What do Dalmatian Pelicans do when it gets cold?

Landfill sites and avian conservation

By Jaime Resano-Mayor|2021-03-25T21:44:38+00:005 Mar 2018|migrant, Migration, migration stopover, soaring birds|

Importance of artificial stopover sites through avian migration flyways

Outsiders: Size, but not Shape, Matters

By Maricel Graña Grilli|2021-05-07T12:19:57+00:0020 Nov 2017|bird movements, flight, migrant, soaring birds, vultures|

Contrasting flapping counterparts, wing shape and migratory habits are unrelated in soaring birds

Keeping up with climate change

By Michele Panuccio|2021-10-18T13:05:07+00:0027 Dec 2016|climate change, Migration, raptors, soaring birds|

Does the timing of migration reflect population trends of soaring birds?