Papers

Papers

BTO publishes peer-reviewed papers in a wide range of scientific journals, both independently and with our partners. If you are unable to access a scientific paper by a BTO author, please contact us.

Search settings

Order by
Partners
Region
Science topic

Is supplementary feeding in gardens a driver of evolutionary change in a migratory bird species?

Author: Plummer, K.E., Siriwardena, G.M., Conway, G.J., Risely, K. & Toms, M.P.

Published: 2015

New research using data from Garden BirdWatch has revealed that bird food provided in British gardens has helped Blackcaps to rapidly evolve a successful new migration route. This is the first time that garden bird feeding has been shown to affect large-scale bird distributions. The research uses data from volunteer Garden BirdWatchers.

23.09.15

Papers

View this paper online