To pluck or not to pluck: the hidden ethical and scientific costs of relying on feathers as a primary source of DNA

Telomeres and life histories: the long and the short of it

(2010) Pat Monaghan   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

A Hard Look at Blood Sampling of Birds

(2010) Margaret Voss et al.   AUK

Foraging behavior of an urban bird species: molt gaps, distance to shelter, and predation risk

(2010) Ido Tsurim et al.   ECOLOGY

Feathers as bioindicators of PCB exposure in clapper rails

(2010) J. W. Summers et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

The Zebra Finch genome and avian genomics in the wild

(2010) Christopher N. Balakrishnan et al.   EMU

Sex-dependent response of primary moult to simulated time constraints in the rock sparrow Petronia petronia

(2010) Lorenzo Serra et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Relationships among timing of moult, moult duration and feather mass in long-distance migratory passerines

(2010) Iván De La Hera et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

The genome of a songbird

(2010) Wesley C. Warren et al.   NATURE

Females Use Multiple Mating and Genetically Loaded Sperm Competition to Target Compatible Genes

(2010) S. R. Pryke et al.   SCIENCE

Low level of extrapair parentage in wild zebra finches

(2009) Simon C. Griffith et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Blood Sampling Reduces Annual Survival in Cliff Swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)

(2009) Mary Bomberger Brown et al.   AUK

Moult speed affects structural feather ornaments in the blue tit

(2009) M. GRIGGIO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Incorporating Genotyping Error Into Non-Invasive DNA-Based Mark–Recapture Population Estimates

(2009) Shannon M. Knapp et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Advancing ecological understandings through technological transformations in noninvasive genetics

(2009) ALBANO BEJA-PEREIRA et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

A ‘feather-trap’ for collecting DNA samples from birds

(2009) GOLO MAURER et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Hormonal Correlates and Thermoregulatory Consequences of Molting on Metabolic Rate in a Northerly Wintering Shorebird

(2009) François Vézina et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Alarm calling best predicts mating and reproductive success in ornamented male fowl, Gallus gallus

(2008) David R. Wilson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effects of blood collection on wild birds: an update

(2008) Lani D. Sheldon et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

High error rates for avian molecular sex identification primer sets applied to molted feathers

(2008) Kara J. Gebhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY