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16th May 2019
Big Brother is watching who?
Posted in: awards, BOU, breeding, cameras, ECR, fieldwork, IBIS, nesting success, News
Use of cameras provides insights into nest survival of Snowy Plovers
2nd May 2019
Mixed Broods
Posted in: breeding, brood parasitism, cuckoos, fledgling survival, nest monitoring, News, species interactions
How do Common Cuckoos and Common Redstarts perform after sharing a nest?
18th April 2019
Are Burrowing Owls stuck in an ecological trap?
Posted in: agriculture, breeding, Disturbance, fledglings, habitat selection, News
Exploring the influence of agriculture on nesting success.
26th February 2019
Glowing horns in a secretive seabird
Posted in: adaptation, biofluorescence, breeding, Fluorescence, ornamentation, reproductive signalling, Seabirds, ultraviolet light
Rhinoceros Auklets found to have fluorescent bill structures during breeding season
29th October 2018
Does the early bird get the seed?
Posted in: breeding, climate change, phenology
Does warming influence the timing of breeding in a seed-eater?
13th June 2018
Understanding the decline of the Common Cuckoo
Posted in: bird atlas, breeding, breeding biology, cuckoos, distribution, ecology, foraging
England’s loss is Scotland’s gain
11th June 2018
Beavers facilitate Teals at different scales
Posted in: breeding, habitat, wetlands
Favouring beavers promotes biodiversity, including waterbirds
18th December 2017
More to “little brown jobs” than meets the eye
Posted in: behaviour, breeding, territory occupancy
Unexpected breeding dispersal behavior in the Grasshopper Sparrow
6th December 2017
The heat is on for British birds
Posted in: biodiversity, bird communities, bird movements, Bird Protection, breeding, Breeding Bird Survey, climate change, distribution, ecology, habitat, Migration, monitoring, Nest Record Scheme, News, phenology, population dynamics, survey, Wetland Bird Survey
What is the evidence for climate change? How will UK bird communities adapt?
16th October 2017
Parrots in an urban jungle
Posted in: breeding, nesting, parrot, urban birds
Winters are fine, cars are not – wild parrots in Germany
11th September 2017
Early birds do not catch the “extra worm”
Posted in: breeding, extra pair paternity, migrant
Pied Flycatchers do not gain more extra-pair paternity by arriving earlier
17th October 2016
Drab females are warm mothers
Posted in: breeding, feathers, incubation, mate selection, nesting, plumage
Less pigmented females have warm brood patches
27th June 2016
The secret sex life of the Brown-headed Nuthatch
Posted in: breeding, cooperative breeding, extra pair paternity, forest birds, Genetics, parental care
Is there extra-pair paternity in the cooperatively breeding Brown-headed Nuthatch?
18th April 2016
What do Great Tit pairs talk about?
Posted in: behaviour, breeding, communications, nesting, pair communications, parental care
Great tit pairs discuss at the nest during breeding, but why?
7th March 2016
Avian camouflage really does hinder predators
Posted in: adaptation, behaviour, breeding, camouflage, cryptic, eggs, evolution, habitat
Camouflage does protect nesting birds from being eaten
29th February 2016
Eagles and agriculture can co-exist
Posted in: agriculture, breeding, land use, productivity, raptors
Good news! Land use change is not necessarily detrimental to Verreaux’s Eagles
15th February 2016
The hatching of a long-term nest study
Posted in: bird communities, breeding, Community, Conservation, crowd-sourcing, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, fledgling survival, moorland birds, nest recording, nesting, Science, survival, tracking, volunteering
Crowdfunded ornithology
25th January 2016
The plight of the Egyptian Vulture . . .
Posted in: behaviour, Bird Protection, breeding, communal, Conservation, Disturbance, endangered, nesting, population dynamics, raptors, roost, Science
. . . and hopes for the future
11th January 2016
Living close, doing differently
Posted in: bird communities, breeding, colour ringing/banding, Science, Seabirds, tracking, winter, wintering
Breeding and wintering Mediterranean Gulls do not mix