The town bird and the country bird: problem solving and immunocompetence vary with urbanization

Elevation-Related Differences in Parental Risk-Taking Behavior are Associated with Cognitive Variation in Mountain Chickadees

(2015) Dovid Y. Kozlovsky et al.   ETHOLOGY

Innovative problem solving in birds: a key role of motor diversity

(2014) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Problem-solving and learning in Carib grackles: individuals show a consistent speed–accuracy trade-off

(2014) S. Ducatez et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Direction of approach by predators and flight initiation distance of urban and rural populations of birds

(2014) Anders Pape Møller et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

A comparison of problem-solving success between urban and rural house sparrows

(2014) Sándor Papp et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Innovation and problem solving: A review of common mechanisms

(2014) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Urbanisation tolerance and the loss of avian diversity

(2014) Daniel Sol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological generalism and behavioural innovation in birds: technical intelligence or the simple incorporation of new foods?

(2014) Simon Ducatez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Does urban life change blood oxidative status in birds?

(2014) D. Costantini et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Tracking Changing Environments: Innovators Are Fast, but Not Flexible Learners

(2014) Andrea S. Griffin et al.   PLoS One

Coping with Uncertainty: Woodpecker Finches (Cactospiza pallida) from an Unpredictable Habitat Are More Flexible than Birds from a Stable Habitat

(2014) Sabine Tebbich et al.   PLoS One

Infectious disease, behavioural flexibility and the evolution of culture in primates

(2014) C. M. McCabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Morphological and Molecular Sexing of the Monochromatic Barbados Bullfinch,Loxigilla barbadensis

(2014) Jean-Nicolas Audet et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Performance in cognitive and problem-solving tasks in male spotted bowerbirds does not correlate with mating success

(2013) Jess Isden et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Independent appearance of an innovative feeding behaviour in Antillean bullfinches

(2013) S. Ducatez et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

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

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

Candidate gene polymorphisms for behavioural adaptations during urbanization in blackbirds

(2013) J. C. Mueller et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A potential role for parasites in the maintenance of color polymorphism in urban birds

(2013) L. Jacquin et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

(2012) Hélène Lowry et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Variation in Brain Regions Associated with Fear and Learning in Contrasting Climates

(2012) Timothy C. Roth et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Differential hippocampal gene expression is associated with climate-related natural variation in memory and the hippocampus in food-caching chickadees

(2012) V. V. Pravosudov et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Linking behavioural syndromes and cognition: a behavioural ecology perspective

(2012) A. Sih et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2012) Veronika Bókony et al.   PLoS One

Sometimes tool use is not the key: no evidence for cognitive adaptive specializations in tool-using woodpecker finches

(2011) I. Teschke et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Territoriality Versus Flocking in the Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita): Resource Polymorphism Revisited Using Morphological and Genetic Analyses

(2011) Karine Monceau et al.   AUK

The Relationship Between Foraging, Learning Abilities and Neophobia in Two Species of Darwin’s Finches

(2011) Sabine Tebbich et al.   ETHOLOGY

Tolerance of Auditory Disturbance by an Avian Urban Adapter, the Noisy Miner

(2011) Hélène Lowry et al.   ETHOLOGY

Clever birds are lousy: Co-variation between avian innovation and the taxonomic richness of their amblyceran lice

(2011) Zoltán Vas et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Cognitive skills and bacterial load: comparative evidence of costs of cognitive proficiency in birds

(2011) Juan José Soler et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Exploring or Avoiding Novel Food Resources? The Novelty Conflict in an Invasive Bird

(2011) Daniel Sol et al.   PLoS One

A field test of behavioural flexibility in Zenaida doves (Zenaida aurita)

(2010) Neeltje Janna Boogert et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Repeatability for Gaussian and non-Gaussian data: a practical guide for biologists

(2010) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The tale of the finch: adaptive radiation and behavioural flexibility

(2010) S. Tebbich et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Learning capabilities enhanced in harsh environments: a common garden approach

(2010) T. C. Roth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Antipredator strategies of house finches: are urban habitats safe spots from predators even when humans are around?

(2009) Anna Valcarcel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Successful city dwellers: a comparative study of the ecological characteristics of urban birds in the Western Palearctic

(2009) Anders Pape Møller   OECOLOGIA

Low diversity and high intra-island variation in prevalence of avian Haemoproteus parasites on Barbados, Lesser Antilles

(2009) L. MARIA et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Genetic variation in dopaminergic neuromodulation influences the ability to rapidly and flexibly adapt decisions

(2009) L. K. Krugel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reduced parasite infestation in urban Eurasian blackbirds (Turdus merula): a factor favoring urbanization?

(2008) Dirk Geue et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Novelty Responses in a Bird Assemblage Inhabiting an Urban Area

(2008) Alejandra Isabel Echeverría et al.   ETHOLOGY

Habitat influences on urban avian assemblages

(2008) KARL L. EVANS et al.   IBIS