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Parent-offspring conflict in Leach’s Storm-Petrels

By Lisa Elliot|2021-02-26T17:15:36+00:004 Mar 2021|eggs, feathers, incubation, island birds, Seabirds, storm-petrels, trade-offs|

Identifying a trade-off between self-maintenance and incubation

Chasing isotope ‘ghosts’

By Graeme Buchanan|2021-05-19T09:50:40+00:009 Oct 2017|Conservation, endangered, feathers, fieldwork, stable isotopes, waders|

Where do Slender-billed Curlews breed?

Survival of the prettiest

By Tuul Sepp|2021-06-09T13:32:12+00:003 Jul 2017|evolution, feathers, longevity, mate selection, Seabirds, survival|

Does wing pattern predict longevity?

Flight

By Emily Shepard|2021-10-14T08:01:26+00:009 Jan 2017|feathers, flight, foraging, Migration, molt, moult, tracking, weather, wind|

A look at the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, examining how flying animals respond to the challenges – and opportunities – that come with moving in a medium that is, itself, on the move.

Drab females are warm mothers

By Masaru Hasegawa|2021-10-18T14:33:30+00:0017 Oct 2016|Breeding, feathers, incubation, mate selection, nesting, plumage|

Less pigmented females have warm brood patches

Carry-over effects across the annual cycle

By Steven C. Latta|2021-11-26T14:34:38+00:001 Feb 2016|corticosterone, feathers, overwintering, population dynamics|

The Louisiana Waterthrush