Latest Posts
9th March 2015
The secret lives of Nightjars
Posted in: breeding, foraging, habitat, News, Science, tracking, woodland birds
Shedding light on a mysterious species
9th February 2015
Twitter #masterclass 4 – organise your incoming tweets
Posted in: Community, News, People, social media
In this series of mini-blogs I will offer tips on how to get the most from your tweets. Steve Dudley | BOU I’ve written before about how best to use Twitter and how Twitter is ideal for building communities and engaging with others. But it still surprises me how many regular Twitterati still don’t know […]
12th January 2015
Does the early bird catch the worm? How to measure bird phenology
Posted in: breeding, Migration, News, phenology, Science
Are first arrival dates a good measure of phenology?
24th November 2014
Offshore wind: the importance of bird density and breeding season definitions
Posted in: Bird Protection, breeding, Conservation, Disturbance, Migration, News, renewable energy, Seabirds, tracking, wind farms
Offshore collision risk modelling can be insufficiently precautionary
3rd November 2014
Forest flapper not plains plodder
Posted in: distribution, Genetics, News, palaeontology, Science, Taxonomy
Plains-wanderers came from the trees
3rd November 2014
Tweeting better – #masterclass 2
Posted in: News
Aagghh! Ditch those auto tweets!
20th October 2014
Tweeting better – #masterclass 1
Posted in: Community, News, People, social media
Tweeting better – #hashtags and retweeting
13th October 2014
A tale of two kites
Posted in: distribution, Migration, News, raptors, Science, tracking
Web-based biodiversity data reveals a sedentary species is in fact a migrant
8th September 2014
An Australian shorebird breaks the rules on moult
Posted in: breeding, molt, moult, News, Science
Do we know why Hooded Plovers moult when they do?
18th August 2014
What do you mean you ‘don’t know how to optimize your paper for SEO?!
Posted in: Journal, News, People, Science, social media
How to optimize your paper for search engines
6th August 2014
Hen Harriers: going, going . .
Posted in: News, raptors, Science, upland birds
Why is the Hen Harrier almost extinct in England?
1st August 2014
What IF?
Posted in: Journal, News, Science
Is there more to Journal Impact Factors?
28th July 2014
Engaging local communities in conserving habitats of Himalayan birds
Posted in: Community, Conservation, News, People
Conservation initiatives, particular in remoter areas, rely heavily on local community engagement if they are to be successful
17th July 2014
The benefits of blogging about your research
Posted in: Community, Journal, News, People, Science, social media
The BOU offers authors the chance to promote their work and benefit from all that blogging now offers
10th July 2014
What is Altmetric?
Posted in: Community, Journal, News, People, social media
Altmetric is here. But what is it?
17th March 2014
Yellowhammer dialects and history
Posted in: News
Yellowhammer dialects from New Zealand has raised some new questions
3rd March 2014
The ‘anywhere’ article
Posted in: Community, Journal, News, Science
The enhanced ‘anywhere’ article comes to Ibis
17th February 2014
Bird Atlas 2007-11: from start to finish
Posted in: News
A personal view of the #birdatlas project by the lead organiser and author
28th January 2014
How to support biodiversity with ecological focus areas
Posted in: Conservation, Farmland birds, News, Science
Ecological focus areas (EFAs) need a minimal ecological quality to be effective