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Disjunct populations: connecting the dots

By Ashish Jha|2022-03-04T11:33:34+00:007 Mar 2022|birds of conservation concern, Conservation, distribution, DNA barcoding, DNA sequencing, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, evolution, fieldwork, genetic diversity, Genetics, habitat degradation, passerines, population dynamics, population structure, range expansion|

Discontinuous populations of Yellow-throated Bulbul are genetically connected

Hide and creep

By Juho Jolkkonen|2022-02-28T10:02:57+00:0028 Feb 2022|adaptation, antipredator behaviour, avian biology, behaviour, camouflage, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, fieldwork, habitat selection, IBIS, passerines, plumage, selection, woodland birds|

The Eurasian Treecreeper is well camouflaged – or is it?

Impacts of parasitic flies on nestlings

By Exequiel Gonzalez|2022-02-14T11:17:57+00:0014 Feb 2022|avian biology, early career, early-career researcher, ECR, fledgling survival, invertebrates, nestling growth, nestling survival, nestlings, parasites, parasitism, passerines|

Addressing how the nestlings of three species that differ in body size are affected

Learning the language of birds

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-01-22T13:26:35+00:0027 Jan 2022|behaviour, Breeding, experiment, non-breeding ecology, passerines, recording, song, territoriality, vocalisations|

Context matters when it comes to mobbing calls.

The changing sounds of spring

By Catriona Morrison|2021-11-15T10:32:04+00:0015 Nov 2021|acoustic monitoring, bioacoustics, biodiversity, bird assemblages, bird communities, bird song, citizen science, communication, community ecology, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, passerines, sound, vocalisations|

Citizen science data reveals a decline in the quality of soundscapes across two continents.

Song variation across Neotropical gradients

By Edvaldo F. Silva-Jr|2021-11-15T10:33:02+00:0011 Nov 2021|acoustic monitoring, behaviour, bioacoustics, bird song, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, Neotropics, passerines|

Blue-black Grassquit song varies with latitude, climate and species richness

Do occurrence data predict nest sites?

By Frank Fogarty|2021-11-15T10:34:05+00:008 Nov 2021|Breeding, ecology, grassland, grassland birds, habitat, IBIS, modelling, nesting, occurrence data, passerines, selection, steppe birds|

Occurrence data are easy to collect, but can they provide information about nesting habitat?

Breeding Great Tits can be picky

By Marta Olivé Muñiz|2021-10-07T11:20:31+00:0011 Oct 2021|Breeding, breeding biology, cameras, diet, diet composition, early-career researcher, ECR, foraging, forest birds, garden birds, nestling food, passerines, woodland birds|

Prey selection in breeding Great Tits is moderately consistent over years

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

Rockjumpers can’t escape their (taxonomic) roots

By Krista Oswald|2021-03-26T13:01:28+00:0029 Mar 2021|passerines, phylogeny, physiology, Taxonomy, temperature, thermal stress|

Metabolic patterns are explained by season and phylogeny

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