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  • Functional integration of multiple sexual ornaments: signal coherence and sexual selection
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  • Accelerated redevelopment of vocal skills is preceded by lasting reorganization of the song motor circuitry
  • Climate change and plumage colouration
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Author: denever

Research news 

What is xeno-canto?

November 13, 2018November 14, 2018 denever

Xeno-canto is a website dedicated to sharing bird sounds from all over the world. Whether you are a research scientist,

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Research news 

20. Hungarian Ethological Conference

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 denever

2018. november 23-25., Kolozsvár More info here: 20. MET 2018

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Do you wanna come to help in the field?

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 denever

You are very welcome! 🙂

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Birds New paper 

Variation in mate quality dependent sex ratio adjustment

November 13, 2018February 12, 2019 denever

Theory predicts that parents adjust the sex ratio of their brood to the sexually selected traits of their mate because

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Birds Colours New paper 

Reflectance variation in the blue tit crown

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 denever

Structural plumage colour is one of the most enigmatic sexually selected traits. The information content of structural colour variation is

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Bats Nature conservation New paper 

Acoustic mirrors as sensory traps for bats

November 13, 2018November 14, 2018 denever

Sensory traps pose a considerable and often fatal risk for animals, leading them to misinterpret their environment. Bats predominantly rely

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Bioacoustics New paper 

Ficedula Toolbox is published

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 denever

“Ficedula”: an open-source MATLAB toolbox for cutting, segmenting and computer-aided clustering of bird song   Qualitative and quantitative assessments of

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Projects

  • Acoustic mirrors project
  • Cultural Evolution in Birdsong
  • Plumage colour signals: dynamic and static mechanisms
  • Sex ratio project

Papers

  • Functional integration of multiple sexual ornaments: signal coherence and sexual selection
  • The meaning of purely structural colour: white plumage reflectance indicates feather condition
  • Valproate exposure in ovo attenuates the acquisition of social preferences of young post-hatch domestic chicks
  • Accelerated redevelopment of vocal skills is preceded by lasting reorganization of the song motor circuitry
  • Climate change and plumage colouration
  • Unravelling the relationships between life history, behaviour and condition
  • Escape ability and risk-taking behaviour in the collared flycatcher
  • Variation in mate quality dependent sex ratio adjustment
  • Reflectance variation in the blue tit crown
  • Acoustic mirrors as sensory traps for bats

Pictures from our life

Audio recording of a frog chorus A mouflon sheep in the nest-box plot A young brown hare in the nest-box plot A brown hare in the nest-box plot Measuring a collared flycatcher Searching for flycatchers Common toad Measuring of a collared flycatcher nestling Taking reflectance spectra of different types of samples Blue tit We take video records of the behaviour of birds Hard work eurasian treecreeper at the entrance of its nest in the nest-box plot Winter in the nest-box plot After freezing rain in the box-plot Őrség, next to the lake where moore frogs courting

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  • Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology, University of Debrecen
  • Evolutionary Ecology Research Group
  • Evolutionary Ecology Group, Babeş-Bolyai University, Kolozsvár

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