Tundra Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Genes of a feather flock together?

By Kurt Burnham|2022-12-18T10:58:09+00:002 Jan 2023|avian biology, bird assemblages, colonial birds, Genetics, global change, IBIS, island birds, phenotypic variation, physiology, population structure, puffins, Seabirds, Tundra, waterbirds|

An unexpected correlation between body size and subspecies designation within a single puffin colony in High Arctic Greenland. A result of climate change?

Fidelity or divorce? The dilemma of Jaegers

By Yannick Seyer|2022-12-05T12:01:41+00:008 Dec 2022|adult survival, annual cycle, breeding biology, colour ringing/banding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, life history, mark‐recapture, monitoring, mortality, movements, pair-bond, phenotypic variation, population dynamics, reproduction, Seabirds, site fidelity, Tundra|

How faithful are Arctic migratory seabirds to mates and breeding sites?

Growing up in a warming Arctic

By Thomas Lameris|2022-01-04T17:36:52+00:0010 Jan 2022|breeding biology, camouflage, climate, climate change, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, fieldwork, global change, invertebrates, migrant, nestling growth, phenology, reproduction, shorebirds, Tundra, waders|

How do shorebird chicks cope with less food and increasing temperatures?

Is tourism ruining the tundra?

By Avery Meeker|2022-01-04T17:09:03+00:003 Jan 2022|bird-human interactions, birds of conservation concern, displacement, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, land use, occupancy, road traffic, Tundra|

How increasing tourism, hiking, and road activity fuelled by relaxed resource management has led to species loss in America’s greatest wilderness