The word “colony” has several different definitions. Its use with respect to seabirds should
not be confused with the meaning when applied to human society, where, from Roman …

Colonial nesting in seabirds and other water birds is widespread, but it is relatively rare in
other birds (Lack, 1966). A colony is a breeding aggregation of birds characterized by many …

The phenomenon of coloniality in birds has prompted several recent reviews on the
adaptive significances of colonial breeding (Lack, 1968; Panov, 1983a; Wittenberger and …

Avian social systems during the breeding season can be classified into three major types:
territorial, cooperative or communal, and colonial. This classification is based on the degree …

The evolution of aggregation in seabirds is usually attributed to predation pressure, although
many authors have argued for the role of foraging constraints to be considered …

Most populations of coloflial birds exhibit extensive variation iu colony size. Field studies
over the last decade have shown that individual birds breeding in colonies of certain sizes …

Stacey and Koenig discuss the phenomenon of cooperative breeding among birds, an
unusual kind of social behavior common to only a few hundred species worldwide, in which …

An overview of the extensive and frequently controversial literature on communally breeding
birds developed since the early 1960s, when students of evolution began to examine …

Coloniality in birds has been intensively studied under the cost and benefit approach, but no
general conclusion can be given concerning its evolutionary function. Here, we report on a …

The process of speciation in birds can be inferred from the pattern of diversification on
islands, especially in archipelagos. The basic model is one of initial differentiation of …