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
A new marker based on the avian spindlin gene that is able to sex most birds, including species problematic to sex with CHD markers
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: aves, bird, data validation, sex typing, spindlin gene, w and z chromosomes
2016
Lack of seasonal and moult-related stress modulation in an opportunistically breeding bird: The white-plumed honeyeater (Lichenostomus penicillatus)
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: corticosterone, corticosterone suppression, moult, moult/breeding overlap, opportunistic breeding, stress modulation, white-plumed honeyeater
2015
Acute stress affects the corticosterone level in bird eggs: A case study with great tits (Parus major)
Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior
Keywords: albumen steroids, behavior, birds, glucocorticoids, hormones, maternal effects, maternal stress
2012
Parents take both size and conspicuousness into account when feeding nestlings in dark cavity nests
Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour
Keywords: begging, bird, coloration, detection, hatching asynchrony, provisioning
2012
Ultraviolet visual sensitivity in three avian lineages: paleognaths, parrots, and passerines
Publication/Journal: Jounal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology
Keywords: avian communication, perching birds, sensory ecology, sws1 opsin, ultraviolet vision
2012
Stereotyped and Non-Stereotyped Features of the Temporal Patterning of Singing Sessions in the Ovenbird Seiurus auricapillus
Publication/Journal: Behavioural Processes
Keywords: *bird song, entropy, signal variation, stereotypy
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
Coloured patches influence pairing rate in King Penguins
Publication/Journal: Ibis
Keywords: aptenodytes patagonicus, king penguin, mate choice, ornaments, plumage color, plumage colour, sexual selection
2007
Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for measurement of excreted estrogen and testosterone metabolites in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys oriantha)
Publication/Journal: Zoo Biology
Keywords: birds, estrone conjugate, fecal, passerines, steroid
1995