We are Hiring!

job opening
For our ongoing study on the reproductive biology of a population of northern lapwings in Northern Germany, we are seeking to hire a full-time field assistant from 17…
Nov 1, 2024
Carol Gilsenan

Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions

new publication
Birds show remarkable individual variation in the frequency at which they feed their offspring. Several factors may contribute to this variation, including genetic, social…
Nov 1, 2024
Santema, Forstmeier & Kempenaers

Hanna Leaves for Pastures New

alumni
After 6 years of working on shorebird microbiome projects as a (part-time) post-doc, Hanna Prüter is leaving us to take up a new position as scientific coordinator for the LI…
Nov 1, 2024
Bart Kempenaers

Welcome to Francesco Mistri

new group member
We are thrilled to have Francesco Mistri join our team as a Data Scientist. Francesco, a recent graduate from the University of Bologna with a Master’s in Artificial…
Aug 1, 2024
Bart Kempenaers

Project on the mating and dispersal behaviour of the Northern Lapwing off to a good start

project
In close collaboration with Dr. Heinrich Belting and his team from the Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency, our group studied a…
Jul 1, 2024
Bart Kempenaers

Opening of the Max Planck – University of Cape Town Centre for Behaviour and Coevolution

event
The 1st of June 2024 was the official start of the newly established Max Planck – University of Cape Town Centre for Behaviour and Coevolution, a partnership between the…
Jun 1, 2024
Bart Kempenaers

Wind in the sails for Johannes Krietsch

alumni
After studying the movements and the mating behaviour of polygynous pectoral sandpipers and polyandrous red phalaropes for his PhD, Hannes is now moving himself. He will…
May 28, 2024
Bart Kempenaers

Goodbye to Martin Bulla

alumni
After 13 years in our group, it is time to say goodbye to Martin Bulla. This autumn he will move to the Department of Ecology at the Czech University of Life Sciences in…
Apr 29, 2024
Bart Kempenaers

Removal of older males increases extra-pair siring success of yearling males

new publication
Older males are typically much more successful at siring extra-pair offspring than yearling males. This raises the question “Why?”. Are yearling males less successful…
Apr 16, 2024
Schlicht et al.

Variation in nuptial color in relation to sex, individual quality and mating success in the sex-role reversed Phalaropus fulicarius (Red Phalarope)

new publication
In most bird species, males are more ornamented and compete for females, while females contribute more to offspring care. In a minority of species, this pattern is reversed…
Apr 15, 2024
Delhey et al.

Video evidence that cuckoos farm their hosts by ejecting nestlings

new publication
A video recording of a Daurian redstart nest from a population in NE China showed that a common cuckoo ejected all the host nestlings. When the redstart then produced a new…
Apr 8, 2024
Zhang et al.

Ornithology from the Lakeshore: Life’s Mass Murderers

new publication
Bart Kempenaers latest editorial for the Dutch ornithological journal Ardea entitled “Life’s Mass Murderers” can be read now here.
Apr 2, 2024
Carol Gilsenan

Congratulations to Annie Aulsebrook

alumni
Congratulations to Annie Aulsebrook who became an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. After having spent 3 years as a…
Mar 13, 2024
Bart Kempenaers

From land to sea: the fall migration of the red phalarope through the Western Hemisphere

new publication
Red phalaropes belong to the shorebirds, but except during breeding, they are in fact surface-feeding, planktivorous seabirds. In a collaborative project with colleagues…
Feb 22, 2024
Saalfeld et al.

A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate

new publication
Many bird species, including blue tits, produce a striking outburst of song around dawn. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain the dawn chorus, but none of them…
Feb 6, 2024
Schlicht et al.

Mutual mate guarding with limited sexual conflict in a sex-role-reversed shorebird

new publication
In a few species, referred to as “sex-role reversed”, females compete for males, as these males provide most or all parental care. Our research, based on continuous tracking…
Dec 27, 2023
Krietsch et al.

The risk of brood parasitism does not affect levels of extrapair paternity in a cuckoo host

new publication
The risk of brood parasitism may be expected to affect the costs and benefits of extra-pair copulations in host species, and thus levels of extra-pair paternity.…
Dec 1, 2023
Zhang et al.
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