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Behaviour, Physiology & Ornithology
Category: Paper
3D motion capture in the study of courtship displays
In our paper “Deciphering choreographies of elaborate courtship displays of golden-collared manakins using markerless motion capture” published in Ethology (2021), we describe a method to record elaborate courtship dances recorded in the 3 dimensional space. Not only did we take…
Read MoreFemales ring doves prefer long courtship but low frequency calls
What female doves respond to during courtship
Read MoreShow me how you sleep and I will tell you how much heat you lose
Heat loss during sleep in migratory warblers
Read MoreOut of Africa: who’s running ahead?
Changes in migration timing of birds depend on where they spend the winter
Read MoreTranscriptome of the migratory Common quail
Our publication on the de novo brain transcriptome of the migratory Common quail is now out in its final form in Data in Brief: In this article, we developed a high quality pipeline for compiling transcriptomes of complex non-genomic species….
Read MoreManakins adapt their courtship display to environmental disruptions
Males use motor sequence learning to modify their display when the physical structure of the court is altered
Read MoreMigratory Shrikes prey on other migrating songbirds during trans-Saharan crossing
Shrikes (family Laniidae) are small songbirds that are notorious for the gruesome habit of attacking, impaling and consuming vertebrates such as frogs, lizards, snakes, rodents and sometimes other songbirds. However the Woodchat Shrike (Lanius senator pictured above), being among the…
Read MoreCorticosterone in feathers is affected by tropical forest management
Corticosterone in feathers as potential mediator of carry‐over effects of silvicultural practices
Read MoreStopover strategies of 12 passerines on Ponza
Resting and sleeping could be the main reason for stopovers
Read MoreUsing an immune response to measure stress in migrating birds
Leukocyte Coping Capacity (LCC) as a complementary tool to measure stress
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