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Tag Archives: Birds

Take Cover: Even a post-fire specialist needs a break from the burn for part of its life cycle

March 11, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Meredith Walker, Communications Specialist at The Institute for Bird Populations, and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Juvenile survival of a burned forest specialist […]

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Flexible or Familiar? Migrating Gulls are both!

February 12, 2021by Beth Preston Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Morgan Brown and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Long‐distance migrants vary migratory behaviour as much as short‐distance migrants: An individual‐level comparison from a […]

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When a shared vision becomes a reality: connecting data on individually marked birds

November 18, 2020by Julie Leave a comment

This blog post is provided by Dr. Antica Culina and Professor Dr. Marcel Visser and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the […]

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Birds in paradise: biogeography in the subtropics

January 3, 2020by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Biogeography is often more complicated than the species-area relationship as discussed in a Journal of Animal Ecology paper testing multiple extensions of island biogeography theory. Sam Ross, lead author of […]

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Determinants of micro- and macroparasite diversity in birds: the fruits of comparing apples and oranges

June 6, 2019by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Identifying the factors shaping variation in parasite diversity among host species is crucial to understand wildlife diseases. A recent paper in Journal of Animal Ecology investigated the role of host […]

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Weak effects of geolocators on small birds

March 19, 2019by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Biologging is a powerful tool and often utilised to study animal movement patterns. But how can researchers be sure that the tag itself does not negatively impact the study animal? […]

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I Set Out To Track Birds, but Ended Up Tracking Predators

August 31, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

The understanding of the interplay of movement, behaviour and physiology that biologging offers has applied relevance for a range of fields, including evolutionary ecology, wildlife conservation and behavioural ecology. In […]

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Evolution of dance and color in the birds of paradise

April 11, 2018by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

In this post, we take a behind-the-scenes look at a recent study into the drivers of complexity in bird of paradise displays. Meredith Miles, a PhD student in Dr Matthew […]

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Glimpsing evolutionary instability in mountains

February 22, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

There are many challenging environments on the planet, and the Andes Mountains are no exception. Animals living at height need to overcome a range of extremes – but how do […]

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