Home from a fab #BOU2016 and wanted to thank #TeamBOU for an outstanding performance. Thanks for all your support. https://t.co/tQpGbTYTmZ

Well done to @PeSumas for winning best ECR talk at the #BOU2016 conference! Excellent Talk! @Fitztitute

Peach: although supp feeding increased H. Sparrow productivity - it didn't increased population size #BOU2016 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ibi.12264/fu...

Will Peach from @RSPBScience talking about declines of House Sparrows - best correlate of decline in London was air pollution #BOU2016

Differential Haemoparasite Intensity between Black Sparro... Recent research suggests that genes coding for melanin ba...

#BOU2016 A few other papers on Cape Town black sparrowhawk study : http://ow.ly/10orki http://ow.ly/10orgI http://ow.ly/10ordC

.@PeSumas: Influence of urbanisation on black sparrowhawks in Cape Town. Her paper on the same system here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12... #BOU2016

Trichomoniasis probably reduced UK greenfinch population by over 2 million @btorobrob #BOU2016

Tim Birkhead - for ornithologists/scientists to be successful: 1) work hard 2) have a good mentor & 3) write a book #BOU2016 #ornithology

Darryl Jones: Australian Magpie -violent defense of nest sites.1000 attacks per year causing hospitalisation in Brisbane alone! #BOU2016

Australian Brush Turkey recovered. First people liked them, until they find a 4 tonne nest in their garden! #BOU2016 https://t.co/dpDhH8pyjz

Darryl Jones urban birds in Brisbane, Oz. 30 years ago house sparrows were commonest species, they are now 22nd most common #BOU2016

Contrasting relationships btw people & kites - Some provide ritual food to them but they may also be scarcifed by childless couples #BOU2016

one of the published paper by @Nishant_Evo2Eco on his black kite study in Delhi, India - www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00063657... #BOU2016 #ornithology

.@Nishant_Evo2Eco up next talking about his interesting study on Black Kites in Delhi - famously high density of a raptor species #BOU2016

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Philipp Sprau adaptation of Munich's Coat of Arms - for his great tit study - nice job! #BOU2016 @maxplanckpress https://t.co/kOqgRM8Bde

Philipp Sprau examining how multiple environmental features can explain differences in behaviour between rural and great tits #BOU2016

DNA methylation - Wikipedia

DNA methylation is 4% higher in urban than rural great tits - same thing happens to human in civil wars!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation #BOU2016

Climate (warming) and garden bird feeding have influenced the rapid change for blackcaps to overwinter in the UK #BOU2016 @_KatePlummer

.@_KatePlummer talking about her research on black caps wintering in the UK #BOU2016 -key papers can be found here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13070/fu...

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Our talking poster -#falconry for controlling Egyptian Geese on golf courses #BOU2016 @alex_atkins85 @SteveMRedpath https://t.co/uQW8tnSwY2

#BOU2016 https://x.com/arjundevamar/status/717729481318928384

Australia is currently implementing bans and curfews for pet #cats - would be tricky in UK! buffer zones in UK needs to be 300-400m #BOU2016

Estimated that 188 million prey killed per year by cats. wood mice were most common prey
#BOU2016 #ornithology https://x.com/arjundevamar/status/717725441440788480

Reading: 460 cats/km; Sheffield: 1500 cats/km. Incredible densities of a predator not influenced by prey densities @BeckyMicrocebus #BOU2016

.@BeckyMicrocebus: The effect of domestic cat predation on urban birds - 10 million #cats in the UK
#BOU2016 #ornithology #urbanbirds

.@silvereyedoc talking about how birds cope with anthropogenic noise in their bird songs and the mechansims involved #BOU2016 #ornithology

starlings treated with Prozac - feed less and feed throughout longer time during the day. Kate Arnold at #BOU2016 rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1656/2013057...

Kate Arnold: Could birds be exposed to pharmaceuticals (Prozac - @LillyPad) from sewage waste! and how might it effect behaviour #BOU2016

Dominoni: Oxalic acid is a cross-species marker for sleep debt - artificial light and urban birds. #BOU2016 #ornithology #urbanbirds

Davide Dominoni talking about the effect of artificial light at night on urban bird #BOU2016 #ornithology #urbanbirds