Moult is one of three major events in the annual cycle of birds. However, in contrast to
breeding and migration, relatively few studies have been carried out on this topic. This is …

Molt is an important avian life history event in which feathers are shed and replaced. The
timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molt follows certain strategies and this …

Determination of a bird's age or cohort is critical for studies on avian demography,
occurrence patterns, behavior, and conservation management. Age designations have …

For decades, ecologists have studied fundamental questions of how Amazonian biodiversity
is maintained, and whether that diversity can persist following deforestation. The long history …

Many species of birds show distinctive seasonal breeding and nonbreeding plumages. A
number of hypotheses have been proposed for the evolution of this seasonal dichromatism …

Ornithologists have largely embraced the molt terminology of as modified by; the HPH
system). In a recent commentary, summarized the derivation and benefits of HPH …

An understanding of feather moult, an important process in the life cycle of birds, lags behind
that of other avian life‐history events. This lag includes a lack of scientific attention, but …

Birds with delayed plumage maturation exhibit a drab predefinitive plumage, often despite
gonad maturation, before developing the definitive plumage associated with increased …

The slow-paced life history of many Neotropical birds (eg, high survival and low fecundity) is
hypothesized to increase lifetime fitness through investments in self-maintenance over …

ABSTRACT The New World warbler genus Cardellina consists of 3 long-distance migrants
breeding in boreal and montane forests (Canada [C. canadensis], Wilson's [C. pusilla], and …