Weather and food availability additively affect reproductive output in an expanding raptor population

M Nägeli, P Scherler, S Witczak, B Catitti, A Aebischer… - Oecologia, 2022 - Springer
The joint effects of interacting environmental factors on key demographic parameters can
exacerbate or mitigate the separate factors' effects on population dynamics. Given ongoing …

Natal legacies cause social and spatial marginalization during dispersal

B Catitti, MU Grüebler, DR Farine… - Ecology Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Early‐life experiences can drive subsequent variation in social behaviours, but how
differences among individuals emerge remains unknown. We combined experimental …

Hungry or angry? Experimental evidence for the effects of food availability on two measures of stress in developing wild raptor nestlings

B Catitti, MU Grüebler, UG Kormann… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Food shortage challenges the development of nestlings; yet, to cope with this stressor,
nestlings can induce stress responses to adjust metabolism or behaviour. Food shortage …

Turning tables: food availability shapes dynamic aggressive behaviour among asynchronously hatching siblings in red kites Milvus milvus

B Catitti, UG Kormann… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Aggression represents the backbone of dominance acquisition in several animal societies,
where the decision to interact is dictated by its relative cost. Among siblings, such costs are …

Determinants of departure to natal dispersal across an elevational gradient in a long‐lived raptor species

P Scherler, S Witczak, A Aebischer… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Attributes of natal habitat often affect early stages of natal dispersal. Thus, environmental
gradients at mountain slopes are expected to result in gradients of dispersal behavior and to …

[PDF][PDF] Brutbiologie des Rotmilans Milvus milvus in den westschweizer Voralpen

P Scherler, V van Bergen, B Catitti… - Ornithologischer …, 2023 - ala-schweiz.ch
Brutbiologie des Rotmilans Milvus milvus in den Westschweizer Voralpen Page 1 276
Ornithologischer Beobachter 120, 2023 Brutbiologie des Rotmilans Milvus milvus in den …

Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation

J Waterman, S Black, N Sykes, WF Mills… - Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Birds of prey ('raptors') often consume anthropogenic foods and can be closely
associated with human settlements. In medieval Britain, birds of prey were commensal …

The raptor lockdown menu—Shifts in prey composition suggest urban peregrine diets are linked to human activities

B Mak, EJA Drewitt, RA Francis… - People and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Raptors can thrive in cities where food supplies are abundant and seasonally stable. The
availability of such resources may be linked to spatiotemporally predictable human activities …

Food availability affects parental anti-predator behaviour in red kites

S Sieder, P Scherler, S Witczak, M Tschumi… - Authorea …, 2023 - essopenarchive.org
Parental investment theory proposes two non-mutually exclusive hypotheses to explain
variation in anti-predator behaviour in relation to the age of offspring: the “reproductive value …

[PDF][PDF] Korrigendum zu: Brutbiologie des Rotmilans Milvus milvus in den Westschweizer Voralpen

On page 279 of this article, an error has slipped in the axis labelling of figure 1C: The labels
for Common Beech and Silver Fir have to be switched. As correctly stated in the figure …