• Linking foraging and breeding strategies in tropical seabirds
    As part of our research collaboration with the RSPB we challenged the widespread view that tropical seabirds forage more unpredictably than temperate and polar species, and we tested the hypothesis that...
  • How is climate change affecting nature?
    Climate change presents one of the largest threats to birds and other wildlife. But as our understanding of the species struggling from climatic changes increases, so too does our toolkit for identifying...
  • What are the main drivers that affect populations of European mountain and upland bird species?
    In a new guest blog published today, Riccardo Alba , PhD Student at the University of Turin discusses his latest paper . His study looked at which drivers have been most consistently associated with positive...
  • Breeding cranes reach record high
    New figures show cranes at a record high number after going extinct in the UK 400 years ago. In today’s blog Andrew Stanbury, RSPB Conservation Scientist, takes us through how the tallest bird in the...
  • Understanding changes in Swift breeding success and survival
    Today’s blog is by Tom Finch, Senior Conservation Scientist, on a new paper which teases out the drivers of variation in Swift breeding success and survival Like many other insectivorous birds, Swifts...