Friends give benefits: autumn social familiarity preferences predict reproductive output
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brown-headed cowbird, familiarity, fission–fusion dynamics, reproduction, social dynamics, social network, social niche
2017
The exaggerated begging behaviour of an obligate avian brood parasite is shared with a nonparasitic close relative
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: agelaius phoeniceus, begging, brood parasitism, brown-headed cowbird, molothrus ater, offspring signalling, red-winged blackbird
2013
In the company of cowbirds, Molothrus ater ater: Robust patterns of sociability predict reproductive performance
Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology
Keywords: animal temperament, cowbirds, reproductive success, sociability
2013
The wages of violence: mobbing by mockingbirds as a frontline defence against brood-parasitic cowbirds
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brood parasitism, chalk-browed mockingbird, egg puncture, frontline defence, host–parasite coevolution, mimus saturninus, molothrus bonariensis, nest defence, shiny cowbird
2013
Different colors reveal different information: how nutritional stress affects the expression of melanin- and structurally based ornamental plumage
Publication/Journal: Journal of Experimental Biology
Keywords: brown-headed cowbird, condition dependent, house sparrow, molothrus ater, ornamental trait, passer domesticus, plumage
2002