What makes specialized food-caching mountain chickadees successful city slickers?

Absence of population structure across elevational gradients despite large phenotypic variation in mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli)

(2017) Carrie L. Branch et al.   Royal Society Open Science

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

(2015) Jean-Nicolas Audet et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Problem-solving ability and response to novelty in mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli) from different elevations

(2015) Dovid Y. Kozlovsky et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Elevation related variation in aggressive response to mirror image in mountain chickadees

(2015) Carrie L. Branch et al.   BEHAVIOUR

Potential Mechanisms Driving Population Variation in Spatial Memory and the Hippocampus in Food-caching Chickadees

(2015) Rebecca Croston et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Commonness and ecology, but not bigger brains, predict urban living in birds

(2015) Svein Dale et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

A phylogeny of the Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes) based on mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA gene

(2015) Lina Wu et al.   Avian Research

Elevation-related differences in novel environment exploration and social dominance in food-caching mountain chickadees

(2014) Dovid Kozlovsky et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Innovation and problem solving: A review of common mechanisms

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

Chickadees with Bigger Brains Have Smaller Digestive Tracts: A Multipopulation Comparison

(2014) Dovid Y. Kozlovsky et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Quantifying the urban gradient: A practical method for broad measurements

(2014) Gábor Seress et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cognitive Ecology of Food Hoarding: The Evolution of Spatial Memory and the Hippocampus

(2013) Vladimir V. Pravosudov et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Untangling Elevation-Related Differences in the Hippocampus in Food-Caching Mountain Chickadees: The Effect of a Uniform Captive Environment

(2013) C.A. Freas et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Anthropogenic environments exert variable selection on cranial capacity in mammals

(2013) E. C. Snell-Rood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Elevation-related differences in memory and the hippocampus in mountain chickadees, Poecile gambeli

(2012) Cody A. Freas et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

Hormones in the city: Endocrine ecology of urban birds

(2012) Frances Bonier   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Exploratory behaviour and stressor hyper-responsiveness facilitate range expansion of an introduced songbird

(2012) A. L. Liebl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brains and the city: big-brained passerine birds succeed in urban environments

(2011) A. A. Maklakov et al.   Biology Letters

Behavioral Syndromes Break Down in Urban Song Sparrow Populations

(2011) Jennifer Scales et al.   ETHOLOGY

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

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

(2011) Daniel Sol et al.   PLoS One

Interspecific variation in fear responses predicts urbanization in birds

(2010) A. P. Moller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Taxonomic counts of cognition in the wild

(2010) L. Lefebvre   Biology Letters

What makes an urban bird?

(2010) KARL L. EVANS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Learning capabilities enhanced in harsh environments: a common garden approach

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

Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds

(2009) Sarah E. Overington et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Levels of antioxidants in rural and urban birds and their consequences

(2009) Anders Pape Møller et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

(2009) Anders Pape Møller   OECOLOGIA

Larger groups are more successful in innovative problem solving in house sparrows

(2009) A. Liker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Novelty Responses in a Bird Assemblage Inhabiting an Urban Area

(2008) Alejandra Isabel Echeverría et al.   ETHOLOGY

Corticosterone and corticosteroid binding globulin in birds: Relation to urbanization in a desert city

(2008) H. Bobby Fokidis et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

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