We used extensive data from a long-term study of great tits (Parus major) in the United
Kingdom and Netherlands to better understand how genetic signatures of selection translate …

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been broadly applied in the biological
sciences to yield new insights into behavior, cognition, population biology, and distributions …

The practice of garden bird feeding is a global phenomenon, involving millions of people
and vast quantities of food annually. Many people engage in the practice of feeding …

Background & Aim: Nesting behavior is important for birds because this stage is critical for
breeding success. Since urbanization is expanding worldwide, birds living in cities face …

Behavioural flexibility allows animals to adjust to changes in their environment. Although the
cognitive processes that explain flexibility have been relatively well studied in psychology …

There is growing evidence that individuals actively assess the match between their
phenotype and their environment when making habitat choice decisions (so-called matching …

Human activity has modified the availability of natural resources and the abundance of
species that rely on them, potentially changing interspecific competition dynamics. Here, we …

In socially monogamous animals, including humans, pairs can meet and spend time
together before they begin reproduction. However, the pre-breeding period has been …

Behavioral adjustments are at the forefront of the mechanisms that birds employ to deal with
environmental changes. We here review the literature focused on how behavior influences …

Understanding how individual differences in physiological performance modify behavioral
responses to environmental variability and its fitness consequences is key to predicting the …