Experimental anthropogenic noise impacts avian parental behaviour, nestling growth and nestling oxidative stress
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: breeding period, feeding rate, nestling physiology, traffic noise, tree swallow, vigilance
2018
Minutes matter: brief hatching asynchrony adversely affects late-hatched hihi nestlings, but not life beyond the nest
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: brood hierarchies, carotenoids, hatching asynchrony, maternal effects, notiomystis cincta
2016
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
Hand-rearing and sex determination tool for the taveta golden weaver (Ploceus castaneiceps)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: chick growth, fledge, genetic sexing, parent-rear, weight gain
2012
Brood Ranging Behaviour and Breeding Success of the Threatened Little Bustard in an Intensified Cereal Farmland Area
Publication/Journal: Biological Conservation
Keywords: agricultural intensification, arthropod availability, farmland management, lleida plains, ranging behavior, ranging behaviour, steppe-bird conservation
2011
Captive breeding and rearing of critically endangered Mauritius fodies Foudia rubra for reintroduction
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: captive breeding, foudia, hand rearing, harvesting, reintroduction
2008
Use of novel nest boxes by carmine bee-eaters (Merops nubicus) in captivity
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: behavior, captive propagation, carmine bee-eater, merops nubicus, reproduction
2007
Physiological and Behavioral Differences in Magellanic Penguin Chicks in Undisturbed and Tourist-Visited Locations of a Colony
Publication/Journal: Conservation Biology
Keywords: corticosterone, ecotourism, human disturbance, spheniscus magellanicus
2005