Research Projects in partnership with the RSPB

• Characterizing demographic variation and contributions to population growth rate in a declining population of Ring Ouzels (Innes Sim at al. Published in Journal of Animal Ecology 2010)
• The Decline of the Ring Ouzel in Britain (Innes Sim et al. Published in British Birds April 2010)
• The breeding ecology and conservation of the Ring Ouzel in Britain – PhD thesis by Ian Burfield
• Understanding Ring Ouzel Declines (Innes Sim, Graham Rebecca & Sonja Ludwig 2008)
• The role of habitat composition in determining breeding site occupancy in a declining Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus population - Sim et al 2007 RZ Moorfoots
• Correlates of the change in Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus abundance in Scotland from 1988–91 to 1999
• Wales Ring Ouzel Survey 2006 - Green, M. 2007
• Climate change may account for the decline in British ring ouzels Turdus torquatus - Beal et al 2006
• South Scotland Survey 1997 (unpublished)

Other Research Projects on this subject:

• Characteristics of foraging habitats of the Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus alpestris at different altitudes in the Oberallgäu (Germany, Bavaria, Swabia) - Monika Schirutschke & Elisabeth K. V. Kalko 2010
• A summary in English of Monika's paper - see above
• Atlas Mountains, Morocco (838 kB PDF)
• Ring Ouzel Italian migration atlas

Other Research Areas

The contribution of Ring Ouzels to the seed production and dispersal of juniper (665 kB PDF) - refer to page 1421 of this paper. Although Ring Ouzels are mentioned in connection with juniper in Spain, the comments are still relevant to British birds.

Conservation opportunities in Spanish juniper Juniperus thurifera woodlands: the case of migratory thrushes Turdus spp.
José Luis TELLERÍA, Iván DE LA HERA, Álvaro RAMÍREZ and Tomás SANTOS
Ardeola Volume 58 June 2011 pages 57-70. Click here for abstract.

Sites containing Scientific Papers mentioning Ring Ouzels

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