‼️ Check out the first chapter from my thesis! Why do birds add fresh green nest material to their nests? 🧵

Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · last wk.

🐦 Thrilled to share our latest research, a milestone: the first first-author paper from @shreyadimri.bsky.social, published in @royalsocietypublishing.org Why do birds add fresh green nest material to their nests? 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Behavioural repertoire and the onset of precocious sexual behaviours in juvenile ruffs (Calidris pugnax) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Finally the paper is published.

Behavioural repertoire and the onset of precocious sexual behaviours in juvenile ruffs (Calidris pugnax)

Adult phenotypes are shaped by developmental processes during early life. This also applies to reproduction and dominance-related behaviours before maturation, called precocious sexual behaviours. ...

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Our new paper on Bateman gradients in black coucals and white-browed coucals is out. Females of both species outperform males in mating and reproductive success - confirming the generality of Bateman's principle when sex roles differ. Check it out: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Sex-role reversal and the Bateman gradient in coucals—females benefit from mating with multiple partners

Abstract. Conventional sex roles imply that males compete more vigorously with each other for fertilizations, whereas females are more selective in choosin

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Ornithologists are always awake because there are both night owls and early birds

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Shhhhhhh…don’t wake the ornithologists!!