Use of evergreen and deciduous plants by nocturnal-roosting birds: A case study in Beijing
2024
With continually increasing urbanization, the land cover in urban areas continues to change, resulting in the loss of biodiversity. Birds are highly sensitive to changes in habitat. Most forest birds...
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Development and parentage analysis of SNP markers for Chestnut-vented Nuthatch (Sitta nagaensis) based on ddRAD-seq data
2024
Extra-pair paternity (EPP) is commonly found in socially monogamous birds, especially in small passerine birds, and there are interspecific and intraspecific variations in the extent of EPP. The Chestnut-vented...
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Annual variation of adult survival of a south-temperate House Wren population in Argentina
2024
Identifying factors affecting the survival of individuals is essential for understanding the evolution of life-history traits and population dynamics. Despite numerous studies on this subject in north-temperate...
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The effect of Common Cuckoo parasitism on the annual productivity of a host population
2024
Avian interspecific brood parasitism is an excellent system for studying coevolutionary processes in nature because brood parasites directly affect host reproductive success. Most research on avian...
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Structural effects of reedbed grazing and its cessation on reed-nesting songbird densities
Available online 18 May 2024
Reedbeds are crucial breeding habitats for vulnerable songbird species. Irrespective of their protection status, these habitats may be threatened by organic matter accumulation, progressively leading...
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Shallow sub-lakes are essential for sustaining the successful wintering of waterbirds in Poyang Lake, China
Available online 27 April 2024
For migratory waterbirds, the quality of wintering habitat is related to spring migration and successful breeding in the next year. The availability of food resources in the habitat is critical and...
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Using non-destructive sampling to evaluate the population genomic status of captive Brown Eared Pheasants
2023
Evaluating the genetic status of threatened species is an essential task in conservation genetics. However, the genetic status of threatened species has been mostly evaluated through techniques that...
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Avian malaria, haematocrit, and body condition in invasive wetland passerines settled in southwestern Spain
2023
Avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites can negatively impact fitness in many songbirds. Research on the malaria infection and its physiological costs on their avian hosts is heavily skewed...
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Vocal repertoire of Azure-winged Magpies (Cyanopica cyanus): A context-associated communication system
2023
Signals within animals’ vocal communication are considered functional referential and context-specific. Even in the absence of the context, receivers are expected to acquire the information of calls...
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Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data
2023
The family Alaudidae, larks, comprises 93–100 species (depending on taxonomy) that are widely distributed across Africa and Eurasia, with single species extending their ranges to North and northernmost...
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Evolutionary relationships of mitogenomes in a recently radiated Old World avian family
2023
Environmentally heterogeneous mountains provide opportunities for rapid diversification and speciation. The family Prunellidae (accentors) is a group of birds comprising primarily mountain specialists...
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Variation in reproductive life-history traits of Chinese Bulbuls (Pycnonotus sinensis) along the urbanization gradient in Hangzhou, China
2023
Urbanization brings new selection pressures to wildlife living in cities, and changes in the life-history traits of urban species can reflect their responses to such pressures. To date, most of the...
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Habitat-dependent breeding biology of the Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) across a continuous and heterogeneous Mediterranean woodland
2023
Mediterranean woodland environments are characterised by high spatial and temporal heterogeneity, which means the inhabiting species face a wide variety of selective pressures. Species may respond differently...
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Egg rejection and egg recognition mechanism in a Chinese Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyanus) population
2023
Recognition and rejection of foreign eggs are effective defense of hosts against brood parasitism. However, brood parasitism can impose various selection pressures on different geographic populations...
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Altitudinal migration behavior patterns of birds on the eastern slope of Mt. Gongga, China
2023
Many bird species in montane regions exhibit altitudinal migration behavior; however, altitudinal migration of birds is still understudied, especially in Asia. Mt. Gongga (7556 m) is the highest peak...
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The Black-winged Monarch (Monarcha frater): Geographic variation, taxonomy, a "new" population, and an enduring mystery in migration
2023
The Black-winged Monarch (Monarcha frater) inhabits low-mid elevation forests across New Guinea and far north-eastern Australia. Of its four recognized subspecies, M. f. canescens is migratory, breeding...
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Data reliability of the emerging citizen science in the Greater Bay Area of China
2023
The potential of citizen science projects in research has been increasingly acknowledged, but the substantial engagement of these projects is restricted by the quality of citizen science data. Based...
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Physiological strategies of moult-migrating Black-necked Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) in a polluted staging site according to blood chemistry
2023
After breeding, Black-necked Grebes (Podiceps nigricollis) perform a moult-migration to autumn hypersaline staging sites, where they moult the flight feathers and forage on superabundant brine shrimp...
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Achievements, challenges, and recommendations for waterbird conservation in China's coastal wetlands
2023
China's coastal wetlands provide breeding, migration stopover, and wintering habitats for about 230 waterbird species, which is more than a quarter of all waterbirds in the world. Large-scale and high...
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Does cryptic dichromatism exist in the Saffron Finch (Sicalis flaveola)? Colorimetric variables and the avian visual model
2023
Sexual dichromatism, a particular type of sexual dimorphism, occurs in several species and has been associated with sexual selection. In some cases, the differences are so small that they are imperceptible...
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Phylogeography and diversification of Oriental weaverbirds (Ploceus spp.): A gradual increase of eurytopy
2023
Weaverbirds are a speciose group of colorful passerines inhabiting the Old World Tropics. Nevertheless, the Oriental weaverbirds (Ploceus spp.), widespread across southern Asia, are much less diverse...
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A high level of extra-pair paternity in the Chestnut Thrush (Turdus rubrocanus)
2023
Extra-pair copulation (EPC) can potentially maximize individual reproductive fitness, and this process may involve sexual selection of male and female traits that reflect individual quality. Previous...
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Impact of agricultural landscape structure on the patterns of bird species diversity at a regional scale
2023
The loss of bird species diversity is a crucial problem in the European agricultural landscape. Change in the area coverage of major land cover types has been mentioned as one of the main factors responsible...
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Quiet in the nest: The nest environment attenuates song in a grassland songbird
2023
The nest environment may limit the ability of nest-bound birds to hear sounds from the outside world. In vocal learning species, such as humans and songbirds, it is vital for young animals to hear the...
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