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Despite the role of many domestic animals as model organisms, our understanding of their undomesticated conspecifics is comparatively poor. This limits our ability to infer the eco-evolutionary context of phenomena studied in the laboratory and to explore domestication. The domestic pigeon’s wild ...
Avian excavators (woodpeckers and other species) select nest sites based on the characteristics of the nest patch, nest tree, and substrate. These characteristics could increase foraging opportunities or reduce the risk of predation, but there is also a potentially important role for wood hardness ...
Predators may adjust their diets to match their energy needs and food availability, but these adjustments have not been explored for migratory aerial insectivores outside of the breeding grounds. We found that Chordeiles minor (Common Nighthawk), a long-distance migrant and member of the rapidly ...
The Florence Merriam Bailey Award—named for the first woman associate of the American Ornithologist’s Union (AOU) in 1885, who was also the first woman elected as a Fellow of the AOU in 1929—recognizes an outstanding article published in Ornithology or in Ornithological Applications by an ...
Climate warming is affecting the phenology and life history of animals around the world. In birds, although warm winters have been shown to advance breeding dates and affect reproductive success in a diverse range of taxa, few studies document whether changes in breeding phenology are associated ...
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Ammospiza nelsoni subvirgata (Acadian subspecies of Nelson’s Sparrow) breeds in saltmarsh from northern Massachusetts to New Brunswick and eastern Quebec. In the Canadian Maritimes, this subspecies also successfully breeds in diked agricultural lands (i.e., “dikeland”) that were originally created ...
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Advances in Avian Diet Methods and Applications
In this Special Feature studies on avian diet for a variety of species and using different methods are brought together in order to work towards improvements and new developments in avian dietary research.
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Species Limits and Taxonomy in Birds
In this Special Feature, a series of articles addresses some of the major challenges in species delimitation and demonstrates and discusses ways in which researchers are making progress on elucidating avian divergence and applying taxonomy at species and subspecies levels.
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Advances in Neotropical Ornithology
This collection brings together articles spanning 4 issues of The Auk and The Condor. Explore research and partake in a discussion as investigators share knowledge of Neotropical birds they have gained from years of study.
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Starting at the beginning of 2021, our journals began publishing under the titles Ornithology for The Auk and Ornithological Applications for The Condor.
