woodland birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Hide and creep

By Juho Jolkkonen|2022-02-28T10:02:57+00:0028 Feb 2022|adaptation, antipredator behaviour, avian biology, behaviour, camouflage, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, fieldwork, habitat selection, IBIS, passerines, plumage, selection, woodland birds|

The Eurasian Treecreeper is well camouflaged – or is it?

Breeding Great Tits can be picky

By Marta Olivé Muñiz|2021-10-07T11:20:31+00:0011 Oct 2021|Breeding, breeding biology, cameras, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, forest birds, garden birds, nestling food, passerines, woodland birds|

Prey selection in breeding Great Tits is moderately consistent over years

Chicks as potential biodiversity monitors

By Stephen Willis|2021-09-30T13:01:44+00:006 Sep 2021|biodiversity, BOU-funded, Breeding, diet, diet composition, DNA barcoding, eDNA, fecal DNA, fledglings, forest birds, woodland birds|

Discovering nestling diet using DNA barcoding

The importance of new native woodland for Black Grouse

By Davide Scridel|2021-04-16T14:09:54+00:0022 Jan 2018|alpine birds, habitat, habitat restoration, woodland birds|

Could the creation of new native woodland contribute to landscape-scale recovery of black grouse after decades of decline?

How resilient are Wood Warblers to forest loss on the wintering grounds?

By John Mallord|2021-04-16T14:17:43+00:0015 Jan 2018|forest birds, habitat, land use, migrant, woodland birds|

Is it too simplistic to assume there is a causal link between declines in Afro-Palaearctic migrants and widespread land-use change in Africa?

Keep it simple

By Nica Huber|2021-06-08T15:33:22+00:002 Aug 2017|habitat, habitat selection, occupancy, remote sensing, woodland birds|

Structural diversity in forests favors avian diversity - but not the endangered Wood Warbler

Introducing Solo: an open-source audio recorder for bioacoustic research

By Robbie Whytock|2021-08-13T13:56:20+00:0010 Apr 2017|bioacoustics, open source, passive acoustic monitoring, technology, woodland birds|

Inexpensive tool could provide new insights into avian ecology

Seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding corvids

By Mario B. Pesendorfer|2021-11-18T14:39:23+00:002 May 2016|behaviour, corvids, ecology, foraging, mutualism, scatter-hoarding, seed dispersal, woodland birds|

Mutualism with food-storing birds helps tree populations on the move

Tracking Pied Flycatchers

By Malcolm Burgess|2021-12-02T13:03:17+00:003 Aug 2015|distribution, geolocator, Migration, News, Science, tracking, wintering, woodland birds|

When, how and where?

The secret lives of Nightjars

By Katrina Sharps|2021-12-05T11:31:53+00:009 Mar 2015|Breeding, foraging, habitat, News, Science, tracking, woodland birds|

Shedding light on a mysterious species