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  • 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
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Birds Colours New paper 

Functional integration of multiple sexual ornaments: signal coherence and sexual selection

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022 HegyiG

The sexual ornamentation of animals typically consists of multiple distinct traits. The classical research approach focuses on differences among these

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Birds Colours New paper 

The meaning of purely structural colour: white plumage reflectance indicates feather condition

November 3, 2020 Miklós Laczi

White plumage areas are widespread among birds, but the mechanisms generating individual differences in white feather reflectance are poorly known.

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Birds Colours New paper Research news 

Climate change and plumage colouration

July 26, 2019July 26, 2019 Miklós Laczi

Weather is known to affect the phenology and behaviour of birds, but weather-related changes of phenotypic traits involved in communication

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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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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

A mouflon sheep in the nest-box plot A mouflon sheep in the nest-box plot A young brown hare in the nest-box plot Safety is first Searching for flycatchers Agile frog Immature green lizard Immature green lizard 17 An aggressive collared flycatcher female An infinite war eurasian treecreeper at the entrance of its nest in the nest-box plot A courting collared flycatcher male A collared flycatcher female collecting nesting material Sometimes we have to relax after work After freezing rain in the box-plot

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  • Evolutionary Ecology Research Group
  • Evolutionary Ecology Group, Babeş-Bolyai University, Kolozsvár

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