Latest Posts
7th September 2020
Climate change and food-hoarding behaviour: is the freezer still working?
Posted in: birds of prey, climate change, food hoarding, forest birds, News, predator-prey interactions
Climate change may melt Pygmy Owls’ “freezers” and reduce their overwinter survival
13th August 2020
Into the pine woods
Posted in: competition, foraging, forest birds
High group density results in fierce competition between groups of Red-cockaded Woodpecker.
6th April 2020
Seasonal bird responses to forest fragmentation
Posted in: forest birds, habitat, habitat fragmentation
Do bird responses to forest fragmentation change between breeding and non-breeding seasons?
13th February 2020
Fragmentation in Florida
Posted in: connectivity, forest birds, Genetics, population structure
How does habitat loss influence the genetic structure of the Brown-headed Nuthatch?
29th April 2019
Nesting in a degraded cloud forest
Posted in: cooperative breeding, forest birds, habitat degradation, nest predation, nesting, tropical birds
Placid Greenbuls show flexible nesting behaviour in a degraded cloud forest
4th April 2019
A South American symphony
Posted in: bioacoustics, bird song, forest birds, News
How natural selection shapes the sounds diversity in a Brazilian bird assemblage.
15th January 2018
How resilient are Wood Warblers to forest loss on the wintering grounds?
Posted in: forest birds, habitat, land use, migrant, woodland birds
Is it too simplistic to assume there is a causal link between declines in Afro-Palaearctic migrants and widespread land-use change in Africa?
24th April 2017
The real treasure of Juan Fernández
Posted in: competition, forest birds, hummingbirds, island birds
Does a congeneric competitor affect the Critically Endangered Juan Fernández Firecrown?
8th August 2016
The march of the triffids
Posted in: agriculture, biodiversity, bird communities, connectivity, Conservation, forest birds, habitat, land management, land use, tropical birds
Shifting agriculture supports more rainforest birds than oil palm or teak monocultures.
27th June 2016
The secret sex life of the Brown-headed Nuthatch
Posted in: breeding, cooperative breeding, extra pair paternity, forest birds, Genetics, parental care
Is there extra-pair paternity in the cooperatively breeding Brown-headed Nuthatch?
16th November 2015
Ghost robins in the New Guinean cloud forest
Posted in: bird assemblages, competition, forest birds, habitat, Science
Twos company?