A classification scheme for mixed-species bird flocks

Mixed-species flocking is associated with low arthropod detectability and increased foraging efficiency by Yungas forest birds in Argentina

(2022) Giselle Mangini et al.   AUK

Cooperative breeding and the emergence of multilevel societies in birds

(2022) Ettore Camerlenghi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The formation of “mega‐flocks” depends on vegetation structure in montane coniferous forests of Taiwan

(2022) Chun‐Chieh Liao et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Interspecific competition and facilitation coexist in mixed‐species bird flocks of montane coniferous forests in Taiwan

(2022) Chao‐Chieh Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Benefits of foraging in mixed‐species flocks depend on species role and foraging strategy

(2022) Gabriela Giselle Mangini et al.   IBIS

Context-specific behavior serves as a mechanism of interspecific cohesion in mixed-species flocks

(2021) Sean M Williams et al.   AUK

Importance of tropical mixed‐species flocks for migratory birds in shade‐grown coffee: implications of foraging together

(2021) Jenny Munoz Z. et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Using playback to test leadership in mixed-species flocks and compare flocking with mobbing

(2021) Liping Zhou et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Mixed company: a framework for understanding the composition and organization of mixed‐species animal groups

(2020) Eben Goodale et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Living in a fragmented world: Birds in the Atlantic Forest

(2020) Marco A Pizo et al.   CONDOR

Patch size and vegetation structure drive changes to mixed-species flock diversity and composition across a gradient of fragment sizes in the Western Andes of Colombia

(2020) Harrison H Jones et al.   CONDOR

Interaction networks of avian mixed‐species flocks along elevation in the tropical Andes

(2020) Flavia A. Montaño‐Centellas   ECOGRAPHY

Multilevel Organisation of Animal Sociality

(2020) Cyril C. Grueter et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Seasonal dynamics of flock interaction networks across a human‐modified landscape in lowland Amazonian rainforest

(2020) Cameron L. Rutt et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Temporal stability vs. community matrix measures of stability and the role of weak interactions

(2020) Amy L. Downing et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A framework for studying social complexity

(2019) Peter M. Kappeler   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Livestock grazing effects on flocks of seed-eating birds in the central Monte desert

(2019) Agustin Zarco et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Resolving the paradox of environmental quality and sociality: the ecological causes and consequences of cooperative breeding in two lineages of birds

(2019) Yu-Heng Lin et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Information about predators varies across an Amazonian rainforest as a result of sentinel species distribution

(2019) Ettore Camerlenghi et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The response of mixed-species bird flocks to anthropogenic disturbance and elevational variation in southwest China

(2019) Liping Zhou et al.   CONDOR

Song recognition and heterospecific associations between 2 fairy-wren species (Maluridae)

(2018) Allison E Johnson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

The conservation implications of mixed-species flocking in terrestrial birds, a globally-distributed species interaction network

(2018) Fasheng Zou et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Bird mixed-species flock formation is driven by low temperatures between and within seasons in a Subtropical Andean-foothill forest

(2018) G. Giselle Mangini et al.   BIOTROPICA

Cooperation facilitates the colonization of harsh environments

(2017) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Diversity in mixed species groups improves success in a novel feeder test in a wild songbird community

(2017) Todd M. Freeberg et al.   Scientific Reports

Forest fragmentation in an African biodiversity hotspot impacts mixed-species bird flocks

(2015) Norbert J. Cordeiro et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Interspecific social networks promote information transmission in wild songbirds

(2015) D. R. Farine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological and behavioral correlates of individual flocking propensity of a tropical songbird

(2014) A. J. Darrah et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Are Mixed-Species Bird Flocks Stable through Two Decades?

(2013) Ari E. Martínez et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Heterogeneous structure in mixed-species corvid flocks in flight

(2013) Jolle W. Jolles et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Interspecific differences in the visual system and scanning behavior of three forest passerines that form heterospecific flocks

(2013) Bret A. Moore et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Patterns of species participation across multiple mixed-species flock types in a tropical forest in northeastern India

(2013) Umesh Srinivasan et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Species importance in a heterospecific foraging association network

(2013) Hari Sridhar et al.   OIKOS

Evolutionary routes to non-kin cooperative breeding in birds

(2013) C. Riehl   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Does niche-overlap facilitate mixed-species flocking in birds?

(2011) Fushing Hsieh et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Assessing “false” alarm calls by a drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) in mixed-species bird flocks

(2010) S. Harsha K. Satischandra et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Experimental evidence that sentinel behaviour is affected by risk

(2010) A. R. Ridley et al.   Biology Letters

The nuclear question: rethinking species importance in multi-species animal groups

(2010) Umesh Srinivasan et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Why do birds participate in mixed-species foraging flocks? A large-scale synthesis

(2009) Hari Sridhar et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Comparing bird community responses to forest fragmentation in two lowland Central American reserves

(2009) Bryan J. Sigel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Multispecies antbird societies in lowland forests of Surinam and Ecuador: stable membership and foraging differences

(2009) R. Havkn Wiley   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

DIFFERENTIATION OF FORAGING NICHE AMONG TITS, PARUS SPP., IN NORWAY DURING WINTER

(2008) OLAV HOGSTAD   IBIS

ASPECTS OF THE BEHAVIOUR AND ECOLOGY OF MIXED-SPECIES BIRD FLOCKS IN KASHMIR

(2008) D. W. Macdonald et al.   IBIS

ADAPTIVE ADVANTAGES OF MIXED-SPECIES FEEDING FLOCKS AMONG SEED-EATING FINCHES IN COSTA RICA

(2008) Daniel I. Rubenstein et al.   IBIS

On the Birds of Gazaland, Southern Rhodesia

(2008) C. F. M. Swynnerton   IBIS

STRUCTURE AND FORAGING PATTERNS OF FLOCKS OF TITS AND ASSOCIATED SPECIES IN AN ENGLISH WOODLAND DURING THE WINTER

(2008) DOUGLASS H. MORSE   IBIS

THE FORMATION, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF MIXED-SPECIES INSECTIVOROUS BIRD FLOCKS IN WEST AFRICAN SAVANNA WOODLAND

(2008) P. W. GREIG-SMITH   IBIS

On Woodland Bird Parties in Northern Rhodesia

(2008) J. M. Winterbottom.   IBIS