1. Feather structure, biomechanics and biomimetics: the incredible lightness of being

   • Theagarten Lingham-Soliar

   Review 01 April 2014 Pages: 323 - 336

   

2. Vocal behaviour of the island-endemic Cozumel Wren (Troglodytes aedon beani): song structure, repertoires, and song sharing

   • J. Roberto Sosa-López
   • Daniel J. Mennill

   Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 337 - 346

   

3. Rediscovery of an enigmatic Chinese passerine, the Blackthroat Calliope obscura: plumage, vocalizations, distribution, habitat choice, nesting and conservation

   • Gang Song
   • Per Alström
   • Fumin Lei

   Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 347 - 356

   

4. Is the effect of farming practices on songbird communities landscape dependent? A case study of olive groves in southern Spain

   • J. C. Castro-Caro
   • I. C. Barrio
   • F. S. Tortosa

   Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 357 - 365

   

5. Small range and distinct distribution in a satellite breeding colony of the critically endangered Waved Albatross

   • Jill A. Awkerman
   • Sebastian Cruz
   • David J. Anderson

   Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 367 - 378

   

6. Foraging behaviour and habitat use of chick-rearing Australasian Gannets in New Zealand

   • Gabriel E. Machovsky-Capuska
   • Mark E. Hauber
   • David Raubenheimer

   Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 379 - 387

   

7. Male viability is positively related to multiple male ornaments in Asian Barn Swallows

   • Masaru Hasegawa
   • Emi Arai
   • Masahiko Nakamura

   Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 389 - 397

   

8. Extensive post-breeding movements of Adriatic Yellow-legged Gulls Larus michahellis

   • J. Kralj
   • S. Barišić
   • N. Deans van Swelm

   Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 399 - 409

   

9. Nest predation in Afrotropical forest fragments shaped by inverse edge effects, timing of nest initiation and vegetation structure

   • Toon Spanhove
   • Tom Callens
   • Luc Lens

   Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 411 - 420

   

10. The earliest European record of a Stone-curlew (Charadriiformes, Burhinidae) from the late Oligocene of France

    • Vanesa L. De Pietri
    • R. Paul Scofield

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 421 - 426

    

11. Directional shifts in migration pattern of rollers (Coracias garrulus) from a western European population

    • Tamara Emmenegger
    • Patrick Mayet
    • Steffen Hahn

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 427 - 433

    

12. The vocal behavior of the Brown-throated Wren (Troglodytes brunneicollis): song structure, repertoires, sharing, syntax, and diel variation

    • J. Roberto Sosa-López
    • Daniel J. Mennill

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 435 - 446

    

13. Abdominally implanted satellite transmitters affect reproduction and survival rather than migration of large shorebirds

    • Jos C. E. W. Hooijmeijer
    • Robert E. Gill Jr.
    • Theunis Piersma

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 447 - 457

    

14. The Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida expansion in Poland: the role of immigration

    • Mateusz Ledwoń
    • Jacek Betleja
    • Grzegorz Neubauer

    Original Article Open access 01 April 2014 Pages: 459 - 470

    

15. Land use factors determining occurrence of Red-necked Spurfowl (Pternistis afer) in the Drakensberg Midlands, South Africa

    • Tharmalingam Ramesh
    • Colleen T. Downs

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 471 - 480

    

16. Latitudinal variation in day length and working day length has a confounding effect when comparing nest attentiveness in tropical and temperate species

    • Phil Shaw
    • Will Cresswell

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 481 - 489

    

17. Is nest predation an important selective pressure determining fecal sac removal? The effect of olfactory cues

    • Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo
    • Francisco Ruiz-Raya
    • Manuel Soler

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 491 - 496

    

18. Lack of correlation between sex ratio and food supply or other biotic variables in nestlings of Tengmalm’s Owl Aegolius funereus

    • Ortwin Schwerdtfeger
    • Michael Wink

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 497 - 505

    

19. Habitat use and diet of Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) wintering in an intensive agricultural landscape of the Netherlands

    • Flavia Geiger
    • Arne Hegemann
    • Frank Berendse

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 507 - 518

    

20. Tracking devices attached with harnesses influence behaviour but not body mass of Princess Parrots Polytelis alexandrae

    • Ashley Herrod
    • Meaghan King
    • Rohan H. Clarke

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 519 - 529

    

21. Social cues are preferred over resource cues for breeding-site selection in Barn Swallows

    • Monamie Ringhofer
    • Toshikazu Hasegawa

    Original Article Open access 01 April 2014 Pages: 531 - 538

    

22. Corticosterone in territorial male Swainson’s Thrushes varies in relation to forest age but not vegetation cover

    • James W. Rivers
    • Andrea L. Liebl
    • Matthew G. Betts

    Original Article 01 April 2014 Pages: 539 - 548

    

23. Shorebird low spillover risk of mosquito-borne pathogens on Iberian wetlands

    • Sara Pardal
    • José A. Alves
    • Luísa Mendes

    Short Note 01 April 2014 Pages: 549 - 554

    

24. Multi-year surveillance of selected avian pathogens in the migrant shorebird Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) at its main stopover site in Patagonia, Argentina

    • Verónica L. D’Amico
    • Patricia M. González
    • Marcelo Bertellotti

    Short Note 01 April 2014 Pages: 555 - 559

    

25. One hundred new universal exonic markers for birds developed from a genomic pipeline

    • Kevin C. R. Kerr
    • Alison Cloutier
    • Allan J. Baker

    Technical Note 01 April 2014 Pages: 561 - 569