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View article: Social connections, group size and fine-scale manipulations of social stability shape learning, scrounging and foraging rate in mixed flocks of wild songbirds
Social connections, group size and fine-scale manipulations of social stability shape learning, scrounging and foraging rate in mixed flocks of wild songbirds Open
The social environment provides both opportunities and challenges for foragers. How multiple components of sociality and foraging interact simultaneously is poorly understood, while experimental manipulation of sociality within wild foragi…
View article: Circadian space use but not overall home range is affected by diurnal hunting in a terrestrial bird species where mortality is low
Circadian space use but not overall home range is affected by diurnal hunting in a terrestrial bird species where mortality is low Open
Human disturbance, such as recreational hunting, can alter species’ spatial ecology and movement behaviour, potentially impacting population dynamics. However, few studies have examined the effects of hunting on the movement ecology of ter…
View article: Spatio‐Temporal Variation in Diet Among Age and Sex Cohorts of a Model Generalist Bird Species, the Great Tit <scp><i>Parus major</i></scp>: New Insights Revealed by <scp>DNA</scp> Metabarcoding
Spatio‐Temporal Variation in Diet Among Age and Sex Cohorts of a Model Generalist Bird Species, the Great Tit <span><i>Parus major</i></span>: New Insights Revealed by <span>DNA</span> Metabarcoding Open
Dietary variation among cohorts can have a major impact on how populations adapt to environmental variation. Although variation in diet between cohorts and across habitats has been studied in many taxa, this is not true for most birds, esp…
View article: Spatial Modelling of Aerial Survey Data Reveals an Important European Storm‐Petrel Hotspot and Its Underlying Drivers Within the North‐East Atlantic
Spatial Modelling of Aerial Survey Data Reveals an Important European Storm‐Petrel Hotspot and Its Underlying Drivers Within the North‐East Atlantic Open
Determining the distribution and population size of marine species is crucial for conservation and management. However, for many species, the abundance and at sea distribution are poorly known because of their large geographic ranges, high…
View article: Effects of fine-scale changes in resource access and social stability on the sociality of foraging flocks of wild birds
Effects of fine-scale changes in resource access and social stability on the sociality of foraging flocks of wild birds Open
Social structure arises from individual behaviours and can impact a wide variety of behavioural and ecological processes. Although changes in the physical and social environment shape sociality, how perturbations govern sociality at a fine…
View article: Manipulating a host-native microbial strain compensates for low microbial diversity by increasing weight gain in a wild bird population
Manipulating a host-native microbial strain compensates for low microbial diversity by increasing weight gain in a wild bird population Open
Empirical studies from laboratory systems and humans show that the gut microbiota is linked to host health. Similar evidence for effects on traits linked to fitness in nature is rare, not least because experimentally manipulating the gut m…
View article: Julie Morand-Ferron retrospective (1977–2022) for <i>FACETS</i>
Julie Morand-Ferron retrospective (1977–2022) for <i>FACETS</i> Open
View article: Unravelling effects of fine-scale changes within wild-bird flocks on sociality
Unravelling effects of fine-scale changes within wild-bird flocks on sociality Open
Social structure and individual sociality impact a wide variety of behavioural and ecological processes. Although it is well known that changes in the physical and social environment shape sociality, how perturbations govern sociality at a…
View article: Decadal increase in vessel interactions by a scavenging pelagic seabird across the North Atlantic
Decadal increase in vessel interactions by a scavenging pelagic seabird across the North Atlantic Open
Fisheries waste is used by many seabirds as a supplementary source of food,1 but interacting with fishing vessels to obtain this resource puts birds at risk of entanglement in fishing gear and mortality.2 As a result,…
View article: Handedness and individual roll-angle specialism when plunge diving in the northern gannet
Handedness and individual roll-angle specialism when plunge diving in the northern gannet Open
Many vertebrates show lateralized behaviour, or handedness, where an individual preferentially uses one side of the body more than the other. This is generally thought to be caused by brain lateralization and allows functional specializati…
View article: Artificial selection for reversal learning reveals limited repeatability and no heritability of cognitive flexibility in great tits ( <i>Parus major</i> )
Artificial selection for reversal learning reveals limited repeatability and no heritability of cognitive flexibility in great tits ( <i>Parus major</i> ) Open
Cognitive flexibility controls how animals respond to changing environmental conditions. Individuals within species vary considerably in cognitive flexibility but the micro-evolutionary potential in animal populations remains enigmatic. On…
View article: Individual vocal recognition in the black-headed spider monkey (<i>Ateles fusciceps</i>)
Individual vocal recognition in the black-headed spider monkey (<i>Ateles fusciceps</i>) Open
Individual vocal recognition – the ability to discriminate between individuals based on sound – is thought to be particularly useful for social species that regularly lose visual contact between group members. For instance, individuals liv…
View article: Individual variation in the avian gut microbiota: The influence of host state and environmental heterogeneity
Individual variation in the avian gut microbiota: The influence of host state and environmental heterogeneity Open
The gut microbiota have important consequences for host biological processes and there is some evidence that they also affect fitness. However, the complex, interactive nature of ecological factors that influence the gut microbiota has sca…
View article: A new biologging approach reveals unique flightless molt strategies of Atlantic puffins
A new biologging approach reveals unique flightless molt strategies of Atlantic puffins Open
Animal‐borne telemetry devices provide essential insights into the life‐history strategies of far‐ranging species and allow us to understand how they interact with their environment. Many species in the seabird family Alcidae undergo a syn…
View article: Individual variation in the avian gut microbiota: the influence of host state and environmental heterogeneity
Individual variation in the avian gut microbiota: the influence of host state and environmental heterogeneity Open
The gut microbiome has important consequences for fitness, yet the complex, interactive nature of ecological factors that influence the gut microbiome has scarcely been investigated in natural populations. We sampled the gut microbiota of …
View article: Underwater visibility constrains the foraging behaviour of a diving pelagic seabird
Underwater visibility constrains the foraging behaviour of a diving pelagic seabird Open
Understanding the sensory ecology of species is vital if we are to predict how they will function in a changing environment. Visual cues are fundamentally important for many predators when detecting and capturing prey. However, many marine…
View article: No reproductive fitness benefits of dear enemy behaviour in a territorial songbird
No reproductive fitness benefits of dear enemy behaviour in a territorial songbird Open
View article: New biologging approach reveals unique flightless moult strategies of Atlantic puffins
New biologging approach reveals unique flightless moult strategies of Atlantic puffins Open
Animal-borne telemetry devices provide essential insights into the life-history strategies of far-ranging species and allow us to understand how they interact with their environment. Many species in the seabird family Alcidae undergo a syn…
View article: Inhibitory control performance is repeatable over time and across contexts in a wild bird population
Inhibitory control performance is repeatable over time and across contexts in a wild bird population Open
View article: A longitudinal analysis of the growth rate and mass of tail feathers in a great tit population: ontogeny, genetic effects and relationship between both traits
A longitudinal analysis of the growth rate and mass of tail feathers in a great tit population: ontogeny, genetic effects and relationship between both traits Open
Feathers have a diversity of functions in birds and are costly to produce, so their growth rate and mass can be reliable indicators of nutritional condition at the time of production. Despite the potential for feather metrics to advance ou…
View article: Cognitive flexibility in the wild: Individual differences in reversal learning are explained primarily by proactive interference, not by sampling strategies, in two passerine bird species
Cognitive flexibility in the wild: Individual differences in reversal learning are explained primarily by proactive interference, not by sampling strategies, in two passerine bird species Open
View article: A bioenergetics approach to understanding sex differences in the foraging behaviour of a sexually monomorphic species
A bioenergetics approach to understanding sex differences in the foraging behaviour of a sexually monomorphic species Open
Many animals show sexually divergent foraging behaviours reflecting different physiological constraints or energetic needs. We used a bioenergetics approach to examine sex differences in foraging behaviour of the sexually monomorphic north…
View article: Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit
Inhibitory control, exploration behaviour and manipulated ecological context are associated with foraging flexibility in the great tit Open
Organisms are constantly under selection to respond effectively to diverse, sometimes rapid, changes in their environment, but not all individuals are equally plastic in their behaviour. Although cognitive processes and personality are exp…
View article: No Evidence for Cross-Contextual Consistency in Spatial Cognition or Behavioral Flexibility in a Passerine
No Evidence for Cross-Contextual Consistency in Spatial Cognition or Behavioral Flexibility in a Passerine Open
Although the evolution of cognitive differences among species has long been of interest in ecology, whether natural selection acts on cognitive processes within populations has only begun to receive similar attention. One of the key challe…
View article: No Evidence for Cross-Contextual Consistency in Spatial Cognition or Behavioral Flexibility in a Passerine
No Evidence for Cross-Contextual Consistency in Spatial Cognition or Behavioral Flexibility in a Passerine Open
Although the evolution of cognitive differences among species has long been of interest in ecology, whether natural selection acts on cognitive processes within populations has only begun to receive similar attention. One of the key challe…
View article: Raptors, racing pigeons and perceptions of attacks
Raptors, racing pigeons and perceptions of attacks Open
Raptors are often the cause of human-wildlife conflict because they may predate economically valuable species, and it is the perceived extent of predation that may augment conflict between raptors and people who keep and race pigeons. This…
View article: Inhibitory control performance is repeatable across years and contexts in a wild bird population
Inhibitory control performance is repeatable across years and contexts in a wild bird population Open
Inhibitory control is one of several cognitive mechanisms required for self-regulation, decision making and attention towards tasks. Linked to a variety of maladaptive behaviours in humans, inhibitory control is expected to influence behav…
View article: Heterogeneous selection on exploration behavior within and among West European populations of a passerine bird
Heterogeneous selection on exploration behavior within and among West European populations of a passerine bird Open
Significance A key question in behavioral ecology is whether individual differences in behavior are adaptive rather than merely representing “noise around an adaptive mean.” We show strong evidence for spatial and temporal variation in sur…
View article: Cognition and covariance in the producer–scrounger game
Cognition and covariance in the producer–scrounger game Open
The producer–scrounger game is a key element of foraging ecology in many systems. Producing and scrounging typically covary negatively, but partitioning this covariance into contributions of individual plasticity and consistent between ind…
View article: No reproductive fitness benefits of dear enemy behaviour in a territorial songbird
No reproductive fitness benefits of dear enemy behaviour in a territorial songbird Open
Territorial animals often respond less aggressively to neighbours than strangers. This ‘dear enemy’ effect is hypothesized to be adaptive by reducing unnecessary aggressive interactions with non-threatening individuals. A key prediction of…