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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?

Colouration in Bearded Vultures

By Pascual López-López|2022-02-03T14:35:55+00:0031 Jan 2022|avian biology, birds of prey, communication, IBIS, non-vocal communication, plumage, raptors, reproductive signalling, soaring birds, vultures|

Dominant females are usually darker and prefer darker males for breeding: a new study on bird colouration

Is timing of moult adaptive?

By Anders Hedenström|2021-09-29T15:00:53+00:004 Oct 2021|colouration, IBIS, migrant, Migration, moult, plumage, ringing|

Two species suffer catastrophic embryo mortality in recent heatwaves

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

How did the Iberá Seedeater form?

By Sheela Turbek|2021-03-27T12:30:40+00:001 Apr 2021|bird song, grassland birds, plumage, Speciation|

Novel plumage produced through genome reshuffling generates a new species

Endocrine-morphology links across seasons in a migrant bird

By Susan Doyle|2020-12-22T17:34:00+00:0019 Oct 2020|corticosterone, migrant, plumage, Uncategorized|

Geese with elevated corticosterone during summer have lower body-weight the subsequent winter

The lie of the “black lightning”: signal reliability in a seabird

By Camilla Soravia|2020-10-08T13:56:13+00:0016 Sep 2019|colouration, Disturbance, plumage, Seabirds|

Does Storm Petrels’ plumage coloration reliably signal body condition?

Explosive wagtail evolution

By Per Alström|2021-02-19T18:52:01+00:001 Oct 2018|evolution, News, phylogeny, plumage|

Plumage phenotypes, mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA tell different stories

The dark side of the nestling

By David López-Idiáquez|2021-02-24T14:40:26+00:0017 Sep 2018|colouration, dominance, plumage|

Darker nestlings display bolder personalities, but only if they are female

Bird photography is here to stay

By Bianca Vieira|2021-08-27T16:13:11+00:0013 Feb 2017|moult, plumage, Seabirds|

Using field photography to study avian moult

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