Latest papers

The relationship between shape of the skull and bite force in finches.

Orientation of birds in total darkness.

Materials science. Multitasking in tissues and materials.

The transition from stiff to compliant materials in squid beaks.

Pedigrees, assortative mating and speciation in Darwin's finches.

Dive and beak movement patterns in leatherback turtles Dermochelys coriacea during internesting intervals in French Guiana.

Carotenoid trade-off between parasitic resistance and sexual display: an experimental study in the blackbird (Turdus merula).

Mechanistic analysis of interspecific competition using foraging trade-offs: implications for duck assemblages.

[Relations between the ectosomatic and the entosomatic organs].

A geometric morphometric appraisal of beak shape in Darwin's finches.

Evolutionary consequences of human disturbance in a rainforest bird species from Central Africa.

Cross-regulatory interactions between Fgf8 and Shh in the avian frontonasal prominence.

Keratoacanthoma causing beak deformity in a budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus).

The use of distal rhynchokinesis by birds feeding in water.

The prevalence of beak and feather disease virus infection in wild populations of parrots and cockatoos in New Zealand.

A new prey-detection mechanism for kiwi (Apteryx spp.) suggests convergent evolution between paleognathous and neognathous birds.

Environmental stress affects the expression of a carotenoid-based sexual trait in male zebra finches.

The role of marker traits in the assortative mating within red crossbills, Loxia curvirostra complex.

The effects of different bill-trimming methods on the well-being of Pekin ducks.

Bill impaction in a group of captive Caribbean flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber).