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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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Searching for flycatchers

Winter work

Winter work

Blood sampling from a collared flycatcher

Blood sampling from a collared flycatcher

Measuring of a collared flycatcher nestling

Field work with a female collared flycatcher sitting on a spectrometer

Data collction for digit ratio analyses

Audio recording of a frog chorus

Audio recording of a male collared flycatcher

Working with DNA of collared flycatchers

Taking reflectance spectra of different types of samples

Measuring birds with a companionship

Quantifying flight initiate distance in collared flycatchers

An outdoor aviary for bird personality tests

Preparing for a test of novelty avoidance

We take video records of the behaviour of birds

Hard work

Unending war with snakes

Spectrometric measuring in the field

We always have some help

After the end of the field season

Working at night

Sometimes we have to relax after work

Sometimes we have to relax after work

Snakes are always funny

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

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