This review formally tests several widely held assumptions regarding the evolution of
molting strategies. I performed an extensive literature review of molt in seabirds, extracting …

Although feathers are the unifying characteristic of all birds, our understanding of the
causes, mechanisms, patterns and consequences of the feather moult process lags behind …

The first comprehensive review of all aspects of the biology of moult, drawing information
from across the literature and in all birds, from penguins to passerines. Feathers are …

We examine the potential selective importance of predation danger on the evolution of
migration strategies of arctic‐breeding calidrid sandpipers. Adult calidrids truncate parental …

To most observers, molt seems an overwhelming subject. But birders use many aspects of
molt more than they realize--to distinguish juvenile birds from adults, to pick out an individual …

The common swift (Apus apus) is adapted to an aerial lifestyle, where food and nest material
are captured in the air. Observations have prompted scientists to hypothesize that swifts stay …

Corticosterone (CORT) is seasonally modulated in many passerines, with plasma CORT
concentrations lowest during the prebasic molt when all feathers are replaced. To explain …

The extent to which different kinds of organisms have adapted to environmental temperature
regimes is central to understanding how they respond to climate change. The Scholander …

We investigated how exogenous and endogenous glucocorticoids affect feather
replacement in European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) after approximately 56% of flight …

The energetically challenging periods of molting and breeding are usually temporally
separated in temperate birds, but can occur simultaneously in tropical birds, a condition …