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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ecological correlates of alternative reproductive tactics

Read the blogpost by Sue McRae about her viewpoint article that is related to the recent article by Pöysä, and read the backstory about how Susan got interested in conspecific brood parasitism.

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