Light enough to travel or wise enough to stay? Brain size evolution and migratory behavior in birds

Relative Brain Size and Its Relation with the Associative Pallium in Birds

(2016) Ferran Sayol et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Brain regions associated with visual cues are important for bird migration

(2015) Orsolya Vincze et al.   Biology Letters

Morphological Adaptations to Migration in Birds

(2015) Csongor I. Vágási et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Brain contrasts between migratory and nonmigratory North American lark sparrows (Chondestes grammacus)

(2015) Roman Fuchs et al.   NEUROREPORT

Six Persistent Research Misconceptions

(2014) Kenneth J. Rothman   JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

(2013) Lucy M. Aplin et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Brains, innovations, tools and cultural transmission in birds, non-human primates, and fossil hominins

(2013) Louis Lefebvre   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Variation in hippocampal morphology along an environmental gradient: controlling for the effects of day length

(2011) T. C. Roth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Light enough to travel: migratory bats have smaller brains, but not larger hippocampi, than sedentary species

(2010) L. P. McGuire et al.   Biology Letters

Evolutionary Divergence in Brain Size between Migratory and Resident Birds

(2010) Daniel Sol et al.   PLoS One

Extreme Endurance Migration: What Is the Limit to Non-Stop Flight?

(2010) Anders Hedenström   PLOS BIOLOGY

Great tits search for, capture, kill and eat hibernating bats

(2009) P. Estok et al.   Biology Letters

The Expensive Brain: A framework for explaining evolutionary changes in brain size

(2009) Karin Isler et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Revisiting the cognitive buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains

(2008) D. Sol   Biology Letters

Cognition in an Ever-Changing World: Climatic Variability Is Associated with Brain Size in Neotropical Parrots

(2008) Cynthia Schuck-Paim et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Brains, Lifestyles and Cognition: Are There General Trends?

(2008) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean: ecological corridor rather than barrier?

(2008) R. E Gill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hippocampal volumes and neuron numbers increase along a gradient of environmental harshness: a large-scale comparison

(2008) T. C Roth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES