volunteers Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Bird-building collisions spike during fair weather

By Erin Jackson|2023-05-30T11:18:49+00:005 Jun 2023|bird-human interactions, collision, collision risk, creative writing, early-career researcher, ECR, habitat selection, Migration, mortality, passerines, Urban birds, urbanization, volunteers|

Could calm weather be the perfect storm for bird collisions?

Studying raptor diet using iEcology

By Connor Panter|2023-06-05T11:14:34+00:0025 May 2023|citizen science, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, garden birds, predation, raptors, social media, volunteers|

Using iEcology to explore intersexual, seasonal changes in raptor diet

Which habitats do birds prefer?

By Da-li Lin|2023-02-15T13:59:41+00:0020 Feb 2023|behaviour, bird communities, distribution, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, Farmland birds, forest birds, habitat, habitat selection, IBIS, land use, modelling, population structure, volunteers|

A comparison of habitat preference assessment methods

Human threats to British raptors

By Connor Panter|2022-07-08T12:43:36+00:007 Jul 2022|adult survival, biodiversity, bird-human interactions, birds of prey, disease, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, illegal killing, monitoring, mortality, population dynamics, populations, raptors, rehabilitation, road traffic, survival, volunteers|

What are the main threats to British raptors and have these changed over time?

Citizen science vs. professional bird databases

By Sofia Galván|2022-01-27T12:10:06+00:0024 Jan 2022|citizen science, data repository, early-career researcher, ECR, museum collections, occurrence data, open source, volunteers|

Detecting and controlling individual biases is essential in all kinds of databases

Counting roadside raptors

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-10-30T11:17:50+00:0021 Oct 2021|citizen science, Conservation, Migration, monitoring, population dynamics, raptors, volunteers|

When it comes to road counts, slower is better.

Cryptic birds challenge citizen science data

By Fabricio C. Gorleri|2021-08-06T12:46:46+00:009 Aug 2021|citizen science, image processing, Migration, monitoring, phenology, volunteers|

Identification errors affect predictions of migratory timing in hard-to-identify flycatchers

The BOU: who we are, what we do

By Steve Dudley (he/him)|2020-09-22T13:17:28+00:0014 Jul 2017|blog, blogging, BOU, BOU series, BOURC, Community, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, engagement, funding, grants, Grants Committee, IBIS, Journal, People, Records Committee, sciblogging, scicomm, science blogging, science communication, social media, volunteers|

BOU is about community. Learn about why we do what we do from some of our members.

Peer Review Week

By Steve Dudley (he/him)|2021-10-18T14:57:09+00:0019 Sep 2016|Community, Journal, parrot, peer review, volunteering, volunteers|

Recognising volunteer contributions

The value of volunteering

By Steve Dudley (he/him)|2021-11-16T14:39:49+00:001 Jun 2016|careers, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, News, People, volunteering, volunteers|

How the BOU's Steve Dudley used volunteering to help his early career