Volume 156, Issue 4

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October 2015

26 articles in this issue

Avian genomics: fledging into the wild!
Robert H. S. Kraus
Michael Wink
Review 17 June 2015 Pages: 851 - 865
Review of documented beak and feather disease virus cases in wild Cape parrots in South Africa during the last 20 years
Colleen T. Downs
Mark Brown
Craig T. Symes
Review 10 July 2015 Pages: 867 - 875
Reassessment of the size of the Scopoli’s Shearwater population at its main breeding site resulted in a tenfold increase: implications for the species conservation
Pierre Defos du Rau
Karen Bourgeois
Sébastien Renou
Original Article 27 March 2015 Pages: 877 - 892
Artificial lights and seabirds: is light pollution a threat for the threatened Balearic petrels?
Airam Rodríguez
David García
Pere Pons
Original Article 24 May 2015 Pages: 893 - 902
Black Sparrowhawk brooding behaviour in relation to chick age and weather variation in the recently colonised Cape Peninsula, South Africa
Jakob Katzenberger
Gareth Tate
Arjun Amar
Original Article 18 March 2015 Pages: 903 - 913
Refugial role of urbanized areas and colonization potential for declining Crested Lark (Galerida cristata) populations in the Czech Republic, Central Europe
Petra Šímová
Karel Šťastný
Miroslav Šálek
Original Article 24 March 2015 Pages: 915 - 921
Long-term trends, total numbers and species richness of increasing waterbird populations at sites on the edge of their winter range: cold-weather refuge sites are more important than protected sites
Zuzana Musilová
Petr Musil
Dušan Romportl
Original Article 24 April 2015 Pages: 923 - 932
Latitudinal differences in life-history traits and parental care in northern and southern temperate zone House Wrens
Paulo E. Llambías
Mariana E. Carro
Gustavo J. Fernández
Original Article 10 April 2015 Pages: 933 - 942
Migration strategies revealed by satellite tracking among descendants of a population of European white stork (Ciconia ciconia) reintroduced to Belgium
Jill M. Shephard
Sam Rycken
Lenny Van Erp-van der Kooij
Original Article 22 March 2015 Pages: 943 - 953
Wanderer of the deepest seas: migratory behaviour and distribution of the highly pelagic Bulwer’s petrel
Maria P. Dias
Maria Alho
Paulo Catry
Original Article 29 March 2015 Pages: 955 - 962
GPS tracking of Red Kites (Milvus milvus) reveals fledgling number is negatively correlated with home range size
Thomas Pfeiffer
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg
Original Article Open access 15 May 2015 Pages: 963 - 975
Evidence that dorsally mounted satellite transmitters affect migration chronology of Northern Pintails
Jerry W. Hupp
Sergei Kharitonov
Hiroyoshi Higuchi
Original Article Open access 14 April 2015 Pages: 977 - 989
Pattern of non-breeding movements by Stone-curlews Burhinus oedicnemus breeding in Northern Italy
Dimitri Giunchi
Chiara Caccamo
Enrica Pollonara
Original Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 991 - 998
Habitat selection and movements of Piping Plover broods suggest a tradeoff between breeding stages
Mark T. Wiltermuth
Michael J. Anteau
Aaron T. Pearse
Original Article 10 May 2015 Pages: 999 - 1013
Responses to the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) invasion differ between habitat specialists and generalists in central European forest birds
Jan Hanzelka
Jiří Reif
Original Article 24 May 2015 Pages: 1015 - 1024
Phylogenetic placement of the critically endangered Townsend’s Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis auricularis): evidence for its conspecific status with Newell’s Shearwater (Puffinus a. newelli) and a mismatch between genetic and phenotypic differentiation
Juan E. Martínez-Gómez
Noemí Matías-Ferrer
Patricia Escalante
Original Article 18 March 2015 Pages: 1025 - 1034
Evolutionary status of Icelandic Redpolls Carduelis flammea islandica (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae)
Julien Amouret
Katja Steinauer
Snæbjörn Pálsson
Original Article 10 April 2015 Pages: 1035 - 1048
Taxonomy of the Pyrrhura perlata-coerulescens complex (Psittaciformes: Psittacidae) with description of a hybrid zone
Marina Somenzari
Luís Fábio Silveira
Original Article 11 April 2015 Pages: 1049 - 1060
Evidence of the former existence of an endemic macaw in Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles
Monica Gala
Arnaud Lenoble
Original Article 19 April 2015 Pages: 1061 - 1066
Testing the neoflightless hypothesis: propatagium reveals flying ancestry of oviraptorosaurs
Alan Feduccia
Stephen A. Czerkas
Original Article 19 March 2015 Pages: 1067 - 1074
Intensity of haemosporidian infection of parids positively correlates with proximity to water bodies, but negatively with host survival
Tatjana Krama
Ronalds Krams
Indrikis A. Krams
Original Article 22 March 2015 Pages: 1075 - 1084
Comparison of the numbers of free (surface) macrophages in the respiratory systems of three species of birds in an urban and a rural area of South Africa
Lindi Steyn
John N. Maina
Original Article 25 March 2015 Pages: 1085 - 1093
The frequency distribution of lead concentration in feathers, blood, bone, kidney and liver of golden eagles Aquila chrysaetos: insights into the modes of uptake
Lukas Jenni
Milena M. Madry
David Jenny
Original Article 14 April 2015 Pages: 1095 - 1103
Bergmann on the move: a temporal change in the latitudinal gradient in body mass of a wild passerine
Jon E. Brommer
Ilpo K. Hanski
Risto A. Väisänen
Original Article 27 March 2015 Pages: 1105 - 1112
Heritability of telomere length in the Zebra Finch
Els Atema
Ellis Mulder
Simon Verhulst
Original Article Open access 03 April 2015 Pages: 1113 - 1123
A high-accuracy, time-saving method for extracting nest watch data from video recordings
Dean R. Evans
Sarah L. McArthur
Matthew W. Reudink
Technical Notes 11 July 2015 Pages: 1125 - 1129

Volume 156, Issue 4

Avian genomics: fledging into the wild!

Review of documented beak and feather disease virus cases in wild Cape parrots in South Africa during the last 20 years

Reassessment of the size of the Scopoli’s Shearwater population at its main breeding site resulted in a tenfold increase: implications for the species conservation

Artificial lights and seabirds: is light pollution a threat for the threatened Balearic petrels?

Black Sparrowhawk brooding behaviour in relation to chick age and weather variation in the recently colonised Cape Peninsula, South Africa

Refugial role of urbanized areas and colonization potential for declining Crested Lark (Galerida cristata) populations in the Czech Republic, Central Europe

Long-term trends, total numbers and species richness of increasing waterbird populations at sites on the edge of their winter range: cold-weather refuge sites are more important than protected sites

Latitudinal differences in life-history traits and parental care in northern and southern temperate zone House Wrens

Migration strategies revealed by satellite tracking among descendants of a population of European white stork (Ciconia ciconia) reintroduced to Belgium

Wanderer of the deepest seas: migratory behaviour and distribution of the highly pelagic Bulwer’s petrel

GPS tracking of Red Kites (Milvus milvus) reveals fledgling number is negatively correlated with home range size

Evidence that dorsally mounted satellite transmitters affect migration chronology of Northern Pintails

Pattern of non-breeding movements by Stone-curlews Burhinus oedicnemus breeding in Northern Italy

Habitat selection and movements of Piping Plover broods suggest a tradeoff between breeding stages

Responses to the black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) invasion differ between habitat specialists and generalists in central European forest birds

Phylogenetic placement of the critically endangered Townsend’s Shearwater (Puffinus auricularis auricularis): evidence for its conspecific status with Newell’s Shearwater (Puffinus a. newelli) and a mismatch between genetic and phenotypic differentiation

Evolutionary status of Icelandic Redpolls Carduelis flammea islandica (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae)

Taxonomy of the Pyrrhura perlata-coerulescens complex (Psittaciformes: Psittacidae) with description of a hybrid zone

Evidence of the former existence of an endemic macaw in Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles

Testing the neoflightless hypothesis: propatagium reveals flying ancestry of oviraptorosaurs

Intensity of haemosporidian infection of parids positively correlates with proximity to water bodies, but negatively with host survival

Comparison of the numbers of free (surface) macrophages in the respiratory systems of three species of birds in an urban and a rural area of South Africa

The frequency distribution of lead concentration in feathers, blood, bone, kidney and liver of golden eagles Aquila chrysaetos: insights into the modes of uptake

Bergmann on the move: a temporal change in the latitudinal gradient in body mass of a wild passerine

Heritability of telomere length in the Zebra Finch

A high-accuracy, time-saving method for extracting nest watch data from video recordings

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