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The colour of Blue Manakin eggs

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-02-05T12:37:51+00:0010 Feb 2022|adaptation, Breeding, camara traps, camouflage, eggs, experiment, nest monitoring, nest predation, tropical birds|

Could these colour patterns function as camouflage?

Aposematism in birds

By Tim Caro|2021-11-21T15:23:11+00:0022 Nov 2021|adaptation, antipredator behaviour, avian biology, colouration, communication, diversification, ecology, evolution, IBIS, morphology|

Aposematism and mimicry in birds

Shiny feathers in the mountains

By Chih-Ming Hung|2021-09-30T11:45:55+00:0020 Sep 2021|adaptation, alpine birds, avian biology, colouration, communication, diversification, evolution, feathers, forest birds, IBIS, island birds, passerines, phenotypic variation, plumage, population divergence, ultraviolet light|

Mountain babblers reflect more UV light than lowland babblers

Grey plumage: What is it good for?

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-08-24T07:41:36+00:0026 Aug 2021|adaptation, camouflage, colouration, selection, sexual dimorphism|

A correlative study explores several hypotheses.

The benefits of urban nesting

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-03-20T13:34:04+00:0025 Mar 2021|adaptation, eggs, nesting, Urban birds|

Pale-breasted Thrushes take advantage of buildings and adjust their incubation behavior.

On cones and crossbills

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-02-22T09:27:34+00:0025 Feb 2021|adaptation, distribution, ecology, selection|

How did crossbills adapt to four pine species in Spain?

Shale gas development affects the epigenetic patterns in Louisiana Waterthrushes

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2021-01-14T07:58:01+00:0014 Jan 2021|adaptation, Disturbance, Genetics|

Males and females react differently to this environmental disturbance.

Glowing horns in a secretive seabird

By Bradley Wilkinson|2020-10-12T16:02:25+00:0026 Feb 2019|adaptation, biofluorescence, Breeding, Fluorescence, ornamentation, reproductive signalling, Seabirds, ultraviolet light|

Rhinoceros Auklets found to have fluorescent bill structures during breeding season

Embryonic hypothermia tolerance: adaptation to disturbance?

By Yi-Qiang Fu|2021-06-08T15:07:34+00:007 Aug 2017|adaptation, Disturbance, incubation, nesting|

Unusual incubation behaviour and embryonic tolerance of hypothermia in the Sichuan Partridge

The point of a Guillemot’s egg

By Tim Birkhead|2021-08-08T13:58:33+00:002 May 2017|adaptation, eggs|

Why did the Common Guillemot's egg evolve its pear-like shape?

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