woodland birds Archives - British Ornithologists' Union

Horse of the Woodland

By Robert Montgomerie|2025-04-28T15:18:53+00:0018 Apr 2025|display, Galliformes, game bird, History of Ornithology, sexual dimorphism, sexual selection, woodland birds|

The Scottish origins of the name 'Capercaillie'

Being similar, nesting different

By Adrian Barrero Diego|2023-07-19T13:39:05+00:0024 Jul 2023|avian biology, passerines, physiology, plumage, reproductive signalling, woodland birds|

Can the choice of nesting site facilitate species coexistence?

The smell of flycatchers

By Marc Gilles|2023-07-17T11:43:51+00:0020 Jul 2023|avian biology, passerines, physiology, plumage, reproductive signalling, woodland birds|

Chemical analysis reveals social information in preen oil

Hawfinch diet in a nutshell

By Ewan Stenhouse|2023-06-22T13:00:59+00:006 Jul 2023|diet, diet composition, distribution, DNA barcoding, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fecal DNA, fieldwork, foraging, invertebrates, non-invasive sampling, passerines, woodland birds|

Using genetic techniques to gain unprecedented ecological knowledge of Hawfinches

Do bird populations respond differently to climate change?

By Liam D. Bailey|2022-06-30T14:43:46+00:004 Jul 2022|adaptation, avian biology, behaviour, Breeding, breeding biology, climate, climate change, collaboration, ecology, eggs, forest birds, nesting, passerines, phenology, population dynamics, reproduction, temperature, woodland birds|

Birds in deciduous habitats are more sensitive to temperature change

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?