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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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Work

Snakes are always funny
Collecting of audio samples from courting collared flycatcher males
Audio recording of a frog chorus
Safety is first
Measuring a collared flycatcher
Searching for flycatchers
Collection of spectral data during winter
Blood sampling from a collared flycatcher
Blood sampling from a collared flycatcher
Measuring of a collared flycatcher nestling
Data collection for digit ratio analyses
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
An infinite war
We always have some help
After the end of the field season
Sometimes we have to relax after work
Sometimes we have to relax after work

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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

Collecting of audio samples from courting collared flycatcher males Searching for flycatchers A wild boar piglet around the nest-boxes Measuring of a collared flycatcher nestling An Aesculapian snake in the nest-box plot Taking reflectance spectra of different types of samples 17 A stag beetle in the nest-box plot Hard work A collared flycatcher male at a natural nest-hole A collared flycatcher male We always have some help Two collared flycatcher males competing each other Sometimes we have to relax after work An incubating common chaffinch in the nest-box plot Winter fog in the nest-box plot

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  • New Scientist
  • National Geographic

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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EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Science

Institute of Biology
Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c.
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary

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