Journal of Avian Biology

Empirical and theoretical research in ornithology

Published by The Nordic Society Oikos

JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY
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Overcoming technological constraints in the tracking of small, elusive birds

Michi

10 June 2025

Read the short blogpost and watch the video by Pedro Saez Gomez about how to use a GPS/VHF tag with a soluble backpack harness to track small, elusive birds.

Mechanisms matching timing to resources: comparisons of closely related seasonally sympatric, migratory and non-migratory populations

Michi

5 June 2025

Read about the mechanisms in dark-eyed juncos that match timing of migration and reproduction to the seasonal appearance of resources where breeding will occur.

Welcome Paul Dufour - new subject editor

Michi

4 June 2025

Welcome to our new subject editor: Paul Dufour! Paul is an expert on the evolutionary ecology of migration with special focus on vagrancy.

Radar revelations: insect availability influences parental provisioning in breeding tree swallows

Michi

6 May 2025

Read the blogpost by Victoria Simons about how insect traffic rates and weather conditions affect provisioning rates of an aerial insectivore.

Investigating Natural Variation in Physiological Indicators Across a Forest Bird Community

Michi

25 March 2025

Read the blogpost by Finja Strehmann about what intrinsic factors influence H/L ratios across a bird community.