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  • 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
  • Plumage colour signals: dynamic and static mechanisms
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New paper

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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Bioacoustics Birds New paper 

Valproate exposure in ovo attenuates the acquisition of social preferences of young post-hatch domestic chicks

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 denever

Embryonic exposure to valproic acid (VPA) is known to produce sociability deficits, resembling human autistic phenotypes, in several vertebrate species.

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Bioacoustics Birds New paper Research news 

Accelerated redevelopment of vocal skills is preceded by lasting reorganization of the song motor circuitry

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 denever

Complex motor skills take considerable time and practice to learn. Without continued practice the level of skill performance quickly degrades,

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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 New paper 

Unravelling the relationships between life history, behaviour and condition

February 10, 2019February 12, 2019 denever

The hypothesis of pace-of-life syndromes (POLS) predicts relationships between traits including life history traits and risk-taking behaviour that can be

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Birds New paper 

Escape ability and risk-taking behaviour in the collared flycatcher

February 10, 2019February 12, 2019 denever

Risk-taking decisions in front of a predator are crucial for the fitness of the animals. Risk-taking behaviour can be hypothesized

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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

  • 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
  • Ficedula Toolbox is published

Pictures from our life

Snakes are always funny Safety is first Common toad Collection of spectral data during winter Blood sampling from a collared flycatcher A wild boar piglet around the nest-boxes Common toad Immature green lizard Pill bugs with different personalities Measuring birds with a companionship Great tit male during courtship A yellowhammer female warming her nestlings A collared flycatcher female A black woodpecker in the nest-box plot Spring fog in the nest-box plot A martagon lily in the nest-box plot

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