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Worried about the Greenland White-fronted Goose

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2023-02-04T11:34:43+00:009 Feb 2023|adult survival, agriculture, annual cycle, Bayesian modelling, breeding success, hunting pressure, Migration, overwintering, population dynamics, ringing, waterbirds|

Why has this goose population declined since 2000?

How to cope when the food changes?

By Joanne Morten|2023-01-17T17:44:20+00:0019 Jan 2023|behaviour, bio-logging, bird movements, colour ringing/banding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, shorebirds, waders, waterbirds|

Foraging behaviours of Eurasian Oystercatchers in the Exe Estuary, Devon

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?

How can the past inform reintroductions?

By Jennifer Crees|2023-01-17T10:39:06+00:0019 Dec 2022|climate change, distribution, early-career researcher, ECR, IBIS, migrant, museum collections, reintroduction, vagrancy, waterbirds, wetlands|

A history of the Dalmatian Pelican in Britain and what we can learn for the future of the species

What’s best to conserve UK seabirds?

By Bob Furness|2022-09-23T15:58:03+00:0026 Sep 2022|adult survival, biodiversity, bird assemblages, Bird Protection, birds of conservation concern, Breeding, competition, Conservation, IBIS, impact, monitoring, population recovery, protected areas, Seabirds, waterbirds|

Designating colonies as Special Protection Areas is not enough

Sex-condition interaction affects Greater Flamingo colouration

By Miguel Rendón|2022-09-09T16:59:56+00:0015 Sep 2022|avian biology, Breeding, breeding biology, communication, diet, ecology, feathers, fieldwork, nutrition, parental care, plumage, waders, waterbirds|

Why are female flamingos more colourful than males?

Where have you Bean Geese?

By Michael Thornton|2022-01-11T13:25:24+00:0017 Jan 2022|bird movements, birds of conservation concern, ecology, Farmland birds, fieldwork, foraging, gps tags, grassland birds, habitat selection, land management, migrant, movements, non-breeding ecology, overwintering, satellite tracking, waterbirds|

Tracking Scotland’s population of Taiga Bean Geese Anser fabalis

Surfing the blue wave

By Marta Acácio|2021-11-15T10:37:43+00:0018 Oct 2021|Africa, bird movements, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, gps tags, habitat selection, movements, satellite tracking, waterbirds, wetlands|

Do changes in surface water drive the movements of Shoebills?

Rice fields lose value as a feeding area for colonial waterbirds

By María Antón-Tello|2021-04-06T17:25:29+00:0012 Apr 2021|colonial birds, diet, diet composition, isotopes, niche overlap, waterbirds, wetlands|

Diet convergence of several species of waterbirds in prey with low energy content

The remarkable nesting success of New Zealand Mallards

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-15T12:42:10+00:0018 Jun 2020|hybridization, nesting, waterbirds|

These ducks have a longer nesting season and produce more eggs compared to their mainland relatives.