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Plasticity in the adrenocortical response of a free-living vertebrate: the role of pre- and post-natal developmental stress.

Subtle cues of predation risk: starlings respond to a predator's direction of eye-gaze.

Temporal scales of auditory objects underlying birdsong vocal recognition.

Increased sibling competition does not increase testosterone or corticosterone levels in nestlings of the spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor).

Energy expenditure during flight in relation to body mass: effects of natural increases in mass and artificial load in Rose Coloured Starlings.

The use of a mirror as a 'social substitute' in laboratory birds.

Toxicological effects of diclofenac in four avian species.

Comparison of Campylobacter populations in wild geese with those in starlings and free-range poultry on the same farm.

Auditory memory for temporal characteristics of sound.

A complete species-level molecular phylogeny for the “Eurasian” starlings (Sturnidae: Sturnus, Acridotheres, and allies): Recent diversification in a highly social and dispersive avian group

The integration of song environment by catecholaminergic systems innervating the auditory telencephalon of adult female European starlings.

Use and husbandry of captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) in scientific research: a review of current practice.

Adaptive developmental plasticity in growing nestlings: sibling competition induces differential gape growth.

Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone and its receptor in the avian reproductive system.

Haemosporidian infections in captive exotic glossy starling Lamprotornis chalybaeus in Hong Kong.

Song recognition memory in juvenile zebra finches: effects of varying the number of presentations of heterospecific and conspecific songs.

Sexually selected egg coloration in spotless starlings.

New statistical tools for analyzing the structure of animal groups.

Simultaneous and sequential choice as a function of reward delay and magnitude: normative, descriptive and process-based models tested in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).

Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone neurons interact directly with gonadotropin-releasing hormone-I and -II neurons in European starling brain.