Links between fear of humans, stress and survival support a non-random distribution of birds among urban and rural habitats

Artificial night lighting rather than traffic noise affects the daily timing of dawn and dusk singing in common European songbirds

(2014) A. Da Silva et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Urbanisation tolerance and the loss of avian diversity

(2014) Daniel Sol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Baseline and stress-induced glucocorticoid concentrations are not repeatable but covary within individual great tits (Parus major)

(2014) Alexander T. Baugh et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Does Feather Corticosterone Reflect Individual Quality or External Stress in Arctic-Nesting Migratory Birds?

(2014) Pierre Legagneux et al.   PLoS One

High Urban Breeding Densities Do Not Disrupt Genetic Monogamy in a Bird Species

(2014) Sol Rodriguez-Martínez et al.   PLoS One

Crowding in the City: Losing and Winning Competitors of an Invasive Bird

(2014) Dailos Hernández-Brito et al.   PLoS One

Feather corticosterone reveals effect of moulting conditions in the autumn on subsequent reproductive output and survival in an Arctic migratory bird

(2014) N. J. Harms et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The comparative biology of environmental stress: behavioural endocrinology and variation in ability to cope with novel, changing environments

(2013) John C. Wingfield   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Urbanization and its effects on personality traits: a result of microevolution or phenotypic plasticity?

(2013) Ana Catarina Miranda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Experimental relationships between levels of corticosterone in plasma and feathers in a free-living bird

(2013) G. D. Fairhurst et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Geography of Fear: A Latitudinal Gradient in Anti-Predator Escape Distances of Birds across Europe

(2013) Mario Díaz et al.   PLoS One

High individual consistency in fear of humans throughout the adult lifespan of rural and urban burrowing owls

(2013) Martina Carrete et al.   Scientific Reports

Nonrandom dispersal drives phenotypic divergence within a bird population

(2013) Carlos Camacho et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation

(2012) Jonathan W. Atwell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Life history and the ecology of stress: how do glucocorticoid hormones influence life-history variation in animals?

(2012) Erica J. Crespi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Predator-induced stress and the ecology of fear

(2012) Michael Clinchy et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Hormones in the city: Endocrine ecology of urban birds

(2012) Frances Bonier   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Personality Traits and Behavioral Syndromes in Differently Urbanized Populations of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)

(2012) Veronika Bókony et al.   PLoS One

Non-random gene flow: an underappreciated force in evolution and ecology

(2012) Pim Edelaar et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Within seasons and among years: When are corticosterone levels repeatable?

(2011) Jenny Q. Ouyang et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids

(2011) Michael J. Sheriff et al.   OECOLOGIA

Inter-Individual Variability in Fear of Humans and Relative Brain Size of the Species Are Related to Contemporary Urban Invasion in Birds

(2011) Martina Carrete et al.   PLoS One

Non-breeding feather concentrations of testosterone, corticosterone and cortisol are associated with subsequent survival in wild house sparrows

(2011) L. Koren et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flaws and pitfalls in the chemical analysis of feathers: bad news–good news for avian chemoecology and toxicology

(2010) Gary R. Bortolotti   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Coping styles and behavioural flexibility: towards underlying mechanisms

(2010) C. M. Coppens et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Individual consistency in flight initiation distances in burrowing owls: a new hypothesis on disturbance-induced habitat selection

(2009) M. Carrete et al.   Biology Letters

U-CARE: Utilities for performing goodness of fit tests and manipulating CApture–REcapture data

(2009) Rémi Choquet et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Tracking stress: localisation, deposition and stability of corticosterone in feathers

(2009) G. R. Bortolotti et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Do baseline glucocorticoids predict fitness?

(2009) Frances Bonier et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Corticosterone in feathers is a long-term, integrated measure of avian stress physiology

(2008) G. R. Bortolotti et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY