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GULLS PROMOTE MULTI-SPECIES COLONIES AS THEY LEAVE FORMER REFUGES

Read the blogpost by Nicolás Ron Arroyo about how yellow-legged gulls facilitate establishment of other breeding birds in their colony area.

Interview with guest editors

Read the short interview with the guest editors of the recent Special Issue on
'Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change'
 

Brood Awakening: How red kites weigh risk like feathered economists

Read the blogpost about how anti-predator behaviour in red kite parents changes in relation to food availability.

Overcoming technological constraints in the tracking of small, elusive birds

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

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

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

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

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

Sitting in the open: How nest microclimate influences incubation behavior in an open-cup nesting passerine

Read the blogpost by Kelly Williams about how nest microclimate influences incubation behavior in an open-cup nesting passerine.

Hello there... Theresa Burg!

Meet our editors! Read the short interview with Theresa Burg, JAB subject editor, and learn about her current research focus and her experience as part of the JAB review award committee.

Journal of Avian Biology review award - video abstract

Have a look at the video abstract of the 2023 JAB review award winner article!

Understanding black-tailed godwit communication at the nest through 24/7 audio recordings

Read the blogpost by Ondřej Belfín about the intricate communcation of black-tailed godwits at their nest.

More than maps – extracting demographic information from bird tracking data

Read the blogpost by Steffen Oppel about how tracking data can be used to estimate whether red kites raised offspring.

Critically endangered ortolan bunting could benefit from increased crop diversity

Read the blog post by Sirke Piirainen about how population growth rate in the critically endangered ortolan bunting is affected by habitat characteristics.

Hello there...Stefania Casagrande!

Meet our editors! Read the short interview with Stefania Casagrande, JAB subject editor, and learn about her current research focus and her experience as an editor.

Hello there...Paulo Catry!

Meet our editors! Read the short interview with Paulo Catry, JAB subject editor, and learn about his current research focus and what he finds challenging about field work.

Revealing altered community phenology with autonomous recording units and machine learning

Read about how Laura Berman and her colleagues use new bioacoustic methods to study community phenology.

Mobbing miners

Read the blogpost by Julie Kern about the 'sophisticated' mobbing behaviour of noisy miners.

Heavy metal pollution and the sexually selected egg coloration hypothesis

Read the blogpost by Lisandrina Mari and learn about how heavy metal pollution affects egg coloration and how that might affect sexual selection in pied flycatchers.

The genetics of migratory traits: moving towards studying regulatory mechanisms of gene expression

Read the blogpost by Violeta Caballero-Lopez about how she and her colleagues came to the conclusion that research on migratory traits in birds should be shifted towards studying regulatory mechanisms of gene expression.

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