Darwin's finches in human-altered environments sing common song types and are more aggressive

D Colombelli-Négrel, Ç Akçay… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Human-altered landscapes may act as an environmental filter benefiting species or
individuals with specific sets of capacities or behaviors. Yet the effects of human activity on …

Genetics reveals shifts in reproductive behaviour of the invasive bird parasite Philornis downsi collected from Darwin's finch nests

LK Common, S Kleindorfer, D Colombelli-Négrel… - Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Due to novel or dynamic fluctuations in environmental conditions and resources, host and
parasite relationships can be subject to diverse selection pressures that may lead to …

Nesting Success and Nesting Height in the Critically Endangered Medium Tree Finch (Camarhynchus pauper)

S Kleindorfer, LK Common, P Sumasgutner - Birds, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Invasive species on islands pose high risk to endemic flora and fauna
unable to defend themselves. In this study, we measure the effects of introduced predators …

Absence of Referential Alarm Calls in Long-term Allopatry from the Referent: A Case Study with Galapagos Yellow Warblers

SL Lawson, JK Enos, F Fernandez-Duque… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2023 - Springer
Animals across diverse lineages use referential calls to warn of and respond to specific
threats, and the ability to understand these calls may be dependent on experience with the …

Galápagos yellow warblers differ in behavioural plasticity in response to traffic noise depending on proximity to road

L Hohl, A Yelimlieş, Ç Akçay, S Kleindorfer - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Acoustic communication between animals is increasingly disrupted by noise in human-
altered environments making signals less effective. Birdsong is a signal used in agonistic …