Successful Colonization of a Novel Urban Environment is Associated with an Urban Behavioural Syndrome in a Reed-Nesting Waterbird

Common blackbirds Turdus merula use anthropogenic structures as nesting sites in an urbanized landscape

(2015) Yanping Wang et al.   Current Zoology

A big storm in a small body: seasonal changes in body mass, hormone concentrations and leukocyte profile in the little auk (Alle alle)

(2015) Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Sex Determination of Adult Eurasian Coots (Fulica atra) by Morphometric Measurements

(2015) Piotr Minias   WATERBIRDS

Common blackbirds Turdus merula use anthropogenic structures as nesting sites in an urbanized landscape

(2015) Yanping Wang et al.   Current Zoology

Distribution of tree-hollows and hollow preferences by parrots in an urban landscape

(2014) Adrian Davis et al.   EMU

An overview of the evolutionary causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity

(2013) Emilie C. Snell-Rood   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Songs of the city: noise-dependent spectral plasticity in the acoustic phenotype of urban birds

(2013) Hans Slabbekoorn   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Tolerance of human approaches by Common Mynas along an urban-rural gradient

(2013) Ashlee McGiffin et al.   EMU

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

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

A temperature-based monitoring of nest attendance patterns and disturbance effects during incubation by ground-nesting sandgrouse

(2013) F. Mougeot et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Surviving in sprawling suburbs: Suburban environments represent high quality breeding habitat for a widespread shorebird

(2013) Adam P.A. Cardilini et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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

(2013) Mario Díaz et al.   PLoS One

Spatial and Temporal Variation in Heterophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratios of Nestling Passerine Birds: Comparison of Blue Tits and Great Tits

(2013) Jerzy Banbura et al.   PLoS One

Sleepless in Town – Drivers of the Temporal Shift in Dawn Song in Urban European Blackbirds

(2013) Anja Nordt 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

Quantitative Assessment of the Importance of Phenotypic Plasticity in Adaptation to Climate Change in Wild Bird Populations

(2013) Oscar Vedder et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Escape behaviour of birds provides evidence of predation being involved in urbanization

(2012) A.P. Møller 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

Numerical and behavioral responses of waterfowl to the invasive American mink: A conservation paradox

(2012) Marcin Brzeziński et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wild birds recognize individual humans: experiments on magpies, Pica pica

(2011) Won Young Lee et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

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

(2011) Hélène Lowry et al.   ETHOLOGY

The paradox of invasion in birds: competitive superiority or ecological opportunism?

(2011) Daniel Sol et al.   OECOLOGIA

Behavioral Plasticity Allows Short‐Term Adjustment to a Novel Environment

(2010) Karin Gross et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Behavioural responses to human-induced environmental change

(2010) Ulla Tuomainen et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Song Variation in a Recently Founded Population of the Dark-Eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)

(2010) Melissa M. Newman et al.   ETHOLOGY

Context-specific territorial behavior in urban birds: No evidence for involvement of testosterone or corticosterone

(2010) H. Bobby Fokidis et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Effects of Recreational Trails on Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) in Forested Urban Parks

(2010) Jennifer R. Smith-Castro et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Common Garden Experiment Reveals Genetic Control of Phenotypic Divergence between Swamp Sparrow Subspecies That Lack Divergence in Neutral Genotypes

(2010) Barbara Ballentine et al.   PLoS One

Current selection for lower migratory activity will drive the evolution of residency in a migratory bird population

(2010) F. Pulido et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory

(2010) Luis-Miguel Chevin et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Behavioral correlations provide a mechanism for explaining high invader densities and increased impacts on native prey

(2009) Lauren M. Pintor et al.   ECOLOGY

Fitness consequences of male provisioning of incubating females in a desert passerine bird

(2009) Laura R. Stein et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Changes in fox squirrel anti-predator behaviors across the urban–rural gradient

(2009) Robert A. Mccleery   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species

(2009) K. L. Evans et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flight distance of urban birds, predation, and selection for urban life

(2008) Anders Pape Møller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Adaptation, extinction and global change

(2008) Graham Bell et al.   Evolutionary Applications

The use of leukocyte profiles to measure stress in vertebrates: a review for ecologists

(2008) A. K. Davis et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Temperature and life history: experimental heating leads female tree swallows to modulate egg temperature and incubation behaviour

(2008) Daniel R. Ardia et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Behavioural plasticity associated with propagule size, resources, and the invasion success of the Argentine antLinepithema humile

(2008) Katayo Sagata et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population

(2008) A. Charmantier et al.   SCIENCE