waterbirds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Do East Asian geese and swans switch flyways?

By Qingshan Zhao|2026-02-02T21:48:52+00:009 Feb 2026|Conservation, IBIS, Migration, monitoring, waterbirds|

Long-term satellite tracking reveals remarkable flyway fidelity

Wild Duck

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-07-27T00:00:48+00:0027 Jul 2025|captive-breeding, extinction, Galliformes, game bird, History of Ornithology, hunting pressure, waterbirds|

Domestication and the Mallard

In Flew Enza

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-03-02T20:14:10+00:0023 Jan 2025|disease, History of Ornithology, Seabirds, waterbirds|

A brief history of bird flu

Lords and Ladies

By Robert Montgomerie|2024-12-19T15:56:26+00:0019 Dec 2024|History of Ornithology, Taxonomy, waterbirds|

The first illustration of a Harlequin Duck

Swan Song

By Robert Montgomerie|2024-12-04T14:28:17+00:0021 Nov 2024|Conservation, History of Ornithology, song, sound, waterbirds|

White swans were all named for the sounds they make

Avoiding power lines

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-09-17T12:30:59+00:007 Sep 2023|bird-human interactions, breeding biology, Disturbance, land use, waterbirds|

The density of breeding birds increases with distance from electric power lines.

What’s lead got to do with it?

By Aimée McIntosh|2023-05-07T12:36:15+00:008 May 2023|adult survival, biomonitoring, early-career researcher, ECR, Farmland birds, fieldwork, IBIS, lead poisoning, waterbirds|

Reducing lead shot ingestion in managed goose populations

Body condition and reproduction in declining diving ducks

By Dorota Gajdošová|2023-05-01T14:50:17+00:001 May 2023|avian biology, breeding biology, breeding success, colour ringing/banding, eggs, fieldwork, IBIS, incubation, nesting success, parasitism, physiology, population dynamics, population structure, waterbirds|

Increased body condition affects duck egg mass and hatchability

Network analysis for trans-boundary conservation

By Joshua Nightingale|2023-04-07T16:42:45+00:0010 Apr 2023|bio-logging, bird communities, bird movements, bird-human interactions, connectivity, displacement, Disturbance, early-career researcher, ECR, habitat degradation, migrant, movements, noise pollution, shorebirds, urbanization, waders, waterbirds, wetlands|

Incorporating information about bird movements in Environmental Impact Assessments

Europe-wide demography of Eurasian Curlew

By Duarte Viana|2023-03-24T12:50:30+00:0030 Mar 2023|Breeding, breeding success, demography, ecology, IBIS, nest predation, population dynamics, population structure, populations, waders, waterbirds|

Are population size trends consistent with available demographic data?