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  • 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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Research news

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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Bioacoustics Birds Research news 

GPU grant at Wigner Research Centre for Physics

February 11, 2019February 13, 2019 denever

Detection of the songs of collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) with the help of deep neural networks In the last two

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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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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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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

Collecting of audio samples from courting collared flycatcher males Male moor frog during courtship An immature yellow-necked mouse after jumping out of a nest-box in the nest-box plot A wild boar piglet around the nest-boxes Courting green lizard male Measuring of a collared flycatcher nestling Measuring birds with a companionship Copulating nine-spotted moths in the nest-box plot An outdoor aviary for bird personality tests We take video records of the behaviour of birds We always have some help Great spotted woodpecker looking around at her nest site A European nuthatch in the nest-box plot A view of the nest-box plot during Winter and Spring Spring fog in the nest-box plot A martagon lily in the nest-box plot

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We like these research groups

  • MTA-PE Evolutionary Ecology Research Group
  • 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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