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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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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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Pictures from our life

Preparing for a test of novelty avoidance We take video records of the behaviour of birds A newborn roe deer in the nest-box plot An Aesculapian snake escaping from a nest-box A stag beetle in the nest-box plot A stag beetle in the nest-box plot Hawfinch nestling in the nest-box plot Spring lights in the nest-box plot 40 Őrség, next to the lake where moore frogs courting Common toad Male blue tit Female great tit Blue tit 16 Collared flycatcher fledgling

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