storm-petrels Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Where do breeding Procellaria petrels forage?

By Lily Bentley|2022-12-08T13:00:56+00:0012 Dec 2022|annual cycle, breeding biology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, foraging, habitat selection, IBIS, life history, monitoring, movement, movements, Oceanography, population dynamics, Seabirds, storm-petrels|

Travelling thousands of kilometres to find lunch

Migratory patterns of Europe’s smallest seabird

By Teresa Militão|2022-06-16T16:11:55+00:0020 Jun 2022|bio-logging, bird movements, distribution, fieldwork, flight, foraging, geolocator, IBIS, Migration, non-breeding ecology, population dynamics, Seabirds, storm-petrels|

Geolocation reveals that European Storm Petrels from the western Mediterranean migrate to the Atlantic Ocean

Breaking into the Major Histocompatibility Complex

By Alexandra McCubbin|2022-03-16T13:15:13+00:0017 Mar 2022|avian biology, BOU-funded, diversification, DNA sequencing, early career, ecology, ECR, endemic, genetic diversity, Genetics, genomics, island birds, storm-petrels|

The novel detection of two MHC lineages in Hydrobates storm petrels on the Azores

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

Just what is a species?

By Rebecca Taylor|2020-12-15T17:29:52+00:001 Aug 2019|cryptic species, DNA sequencing, Genetics, News, Seabirds, storm-petrels|

Cryptic species of storm-petrels uncovered using DNA sequencing