This blog post is provided by Nicolas Bekka and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Paler within the city: Across Europe, great tits (Parus major) are paler in more impervious neighbourhoods”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Bekka and colleagues explore how fine-scale urbanisation shapes plumage colour in great tits across six European cities, finding that birds in more built-up … Continue reading Paler within the city: Across Europe, great tits (Parus major) are paler in more impervious neighbourhoods.