vocalisations Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Coordination breeds success

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|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

The call of the Striped Cuckoo

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-10-27T13:57:52+00:002 Nov 2023|acoustic monitoring, annual cycle, behaviour, breeding biology, Cuckoos, mate selection, passive acoustic monitoring, song, vocalisations|

This species uses two vocalisations for different purposes.

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?

Can you hear me?

By Lauren Chronister|2023-03-31T16:59:45+00:003 Apr 2023|acoustic monitoring, bird song, citizen science, communications, community ecology, competition, data repository, IBIS, open source, song, sound, vocalisations|

Birds use clever strategies to communicate in crowds

How to use BirdNET

By Cristian Pérez-Granados|2023-03-20T15:38:40+00:0027 Mar 2023|acoustic monitoring, bird song, citizen science, data repository, IBIS, open source, passive acoustic monitoring, song, sound, vocalisations|

Reviewing the applications, performance and opportunities of BirdNET for bird monitoring

The rise of passive acoustic monitoring

By Oliver Metcalf|2023-03-17T11:39:46+00:0020 Mar 2023|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, biodiversity, bird assemblages, diversity, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, habitat restoration, impact assessment, monitoring, passive acoustic monitoring, populations, recording, song, vocalisations|

Using passive acoustic monitoring for surveying birds in the UK

Can magpies tell friend from foe?

By Grace Blackburn|2022-11-28T11:42:26+00:005 Dec 2022|behaviour, bird communities, communal, communication, communications, corvids, early-career researcher, ECR, experiment, fieldwork, IBIS, personality, population dynamics, population structure, sound, territoriality, vocalisations|

Can Western Australian Magpies distinguish between songs of groupmates and non-groupmates?

Safe to forage? Just listen to other birds

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-07-18T09:24:21+00:0028 Jul 2022|antipredator behaviour, behaviour, communication, foraging, habitat selection, passerines, species interactions, vocalisations|

Tit species rely on public information to assess the risk at feeders.

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.

Vocal differences in Acorn Woodpeckers

By José de Jesús Zazueta-Algara|2022-06-06T09:29:12+00:0023 May 2022|acoustic monitoring, adaptation, avian biology, bioacoustics, bird song, citizen science, communications, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, Neotropics, population dynamics, song, tropical birds, vocalisations, vocalizations|

Structure and divergence of vocal traits in the Acorn Woodpecker