vocalisations Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Vocal differences in Acorn Woodpeckers

By José de Jesús Zazueta-Algara|2022-05-23T07:41:34+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

Dancing after sex

By Anastasia Dalziell|2022-03-25T17:20:21+00:0028 Mar 2022|behaviour, bird song, breeding biology, communication, IBIS, mate selection, pair communications, passerines, plumage, reproductive signalling, sensory ecology, tropical birds, vocalisations|

Male Superb Lyrebirds perform a bizarre audio-visual display, after copulation

Learning the language of birds

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-01-22T13:26:35+00:0027 Jan 2022|behaviour, Breeding, experiment, non-breeding ecology, passerines, recording, song, territoriality, vocalisations|

Context matters when it comes to mobbing calls.

The changing sounds of spring

By Catriona Morrison|2021-11-15T10:32:04+00:0015 Nov 2021|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, biodiversity, bird assemblages, bird communities, bird song, citizen science, communication, community ecology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, passerines, sound, vocalisations|

Citizen science data reveals a decline in the quality of soundscapes across two continents.

Are nocturnal migrants attracted to cities?

By Simon Gillings|2021-05-04T14:29:08+00:0013 May 2021|acoustic monitoring, light pollution, Migration, vocalisations|

Using bioacoustics and neural networks to assess impacts of light pollution

Recognising next-door neighbours in the African bush

By Johann H. van Niekerk|2021-03-20T08:39:06+00:0022 Mar 2021|behaviour, diversification, evolution, Galliformes, phylogeny, Speciation, Taxonomy, vocalisations|

Crested Francolin subspecies produce distinctive calls to interact in their different habitats

Quiet please, I need to sing

By Roselvy Juárez|2020-10-06T09:25:42+00:0022 Jun 2020|noise, song, Urban birds, vocal activity, vocalisations, vocalizations|

House Wrens reduce repertoire size in noisy sites

A proliferation of prinia species

By Per Alström|2020-12-15T15:02:17+00:006 Jan 2020|biodiversity, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, vocalisations, vocalizations|

Five instead of two species in the Striated Prinia–Brown Prinia complex revealed