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10th October 2018
IOCongress2018
Posted in: BOU, Community, Conferences, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IOCongress2018, News
With so many inspiring sessions, it was hard to decide which to attend
8th October 2018
Sex can’t help you when it’s hot
Posted in: BOU-funded, cooperative breeding, Grants Committee, heat, News, temperature
High temperatures suppress growth equally in male and female babbler nestlings
5th October 2018
From IOCongress2018
Posted in: BOU, Community, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, funding, IOCongress2018, News
I left IOCongress2018 feeling inspired having gained new perspectives
3rd October 2018
From IOCongress2018
Posted in: Community, Conferences, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IOCongress2018, News
Olivia Hicks tells us about her IOCongress2018
1st October 2018
Explosive wagtail evolution
Posted in: evolution, News, phylogeny, plumage
Plumage phenotypes, mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA tell different stories
28th September 2018
From IOCongress2018
Posted in: Community, Conferences, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IOCongress2018, News
Giving wings to the wingless
26th September 2018
From IOCongress2018
Posted in: Community, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, IOCongress2018, News, scicomm, science communication
Participating at IOCongress2018C was the culmination of my Masters thesis work
13th September 2018
From IOCongress2018
Posted in: Conservation, IOCongress2018, News, scicomm, science communication
Amanda Trask highlights the conservation science and science communication from IOCongress2018
30th July 2018
Conspecific brood parasitism in Prothonotary Warblers
Posted in: breeding biology, brood parasitism, fledglings, Genetics, nest monitoring, nesting, nesting success, News
Parasites or orphans? What are the costs of raising additional, unrelated chicks?
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 […]