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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?

23rd October 2017

The peculiar Palm-nut Vulture

Posted in: News

Getting to know an unusual vulture better

21st August 2017

Kleptoparasitism in urban and coastal gulls

Posted in: News

Differences in kleptoparasitism between an urban and a coastal gull population

26th July 2017

Early life success and ageing

Posted in: News

Does early life success affect senescence of Common Blackbird females?

12th June 2017

Snake phobia? Not for Fasciated Antshrikes!

Posted in: News

Fasciated Antshrikes regularly mob snakes and can escalate into deadly attacks

1st June 2016

The value of volunteering

Posted in: careers, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, News, People, volunteering, volunteers

How the BOU’s Steve Dudley used volunteering to help his early career

7th April 2016

The BOU’s Godman Salvin Prize – Tim Birkhead

Posted in: awards, Community, News, People

Awarded for an outstanding contribution to ornithology

7th April 2016

Union Medal – Chris Perrins

Posted in: awards, Community, News, People

Award for outstanding contribution to BOU and ornithology

28th March 2016

Impacts of driven shooting of Red Grouse

Posted in: Conservation, hunting pressure, land management, moorland, moorland birds, News, red grouse, upland birds

Management of Red Grouse moors

2nd March 2016

The #ornithology tag on Twitter

Posted in: hashtags, News, scicomm, science communication, social media, Twitter

Steve Dudley BOU When @IBIS_journal wanted to group its science content tweets, and encourage others to share their avian science tweets with us and others, we looked at the various options and the various hashtags already being used. We soon disregarded the #bird and #birds tags as far too general and science tweets would […]