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.

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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