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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Animals living in dense vegetation are limited in their use of visual signals due to the transmission constraints in these dim, cluttered environments. Birds in such habitats are often drab in appearance and thought to rely predominately on acoustic signals for conspecific communication. Here, we ...
The mating systems of many rainforest birds remain poorly understood, especially those that elude observation in dense forest understories. Here we documented mating behaviors in a pair of Tinamus major (Great Tinamou), a secretive species with a wide distribution across the lowland Central and ...
At temperate latitudes, the overwintering period for birds is often longer than subsequent periods, and lower daily foraging success during this period may produce population-level impacts that are similar to or larger than those reported during shorter periods of the annual cycle. In this study, ...
Risks and costs associated with reproduction may induce iteroparous species to employ intermittent breeding, whereby individuals forgo attempting reproduction in some breeding periods following recruitment to the breeding population. We explore this behavior through population-level analyses of ...
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