期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background Interspecific competition is known to be strongest between those species that are both closely related and sympatric. Egrets are colonially......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background Efficient and selective utilization of metabolic substrates is one of the key strategies in high-altitude animals to cope with hypoxia and ......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background Animals need to adjust their vigilance strategies when foraging between physically contrasting vegetated and non-vegetated habitats. Vegeta......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background Parental investment by birds is limited by the habitat environment, and a male parent increases its effort to reproduce in birds that live ......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background As the major load-bearing structures, bones exhibit various properties related to mechanical performance to adapt to different locomotor in......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background Despite an increasing number of surveys and a growing interest in birdwatching, the population and distribution of Asian Dowitcher (Limnodr......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are an important component of the vertebrate immune system and play a significant role ......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background The intestinal microbiota play remarkable roles in maintaining the health of their hosts. Recent studies focused on gut bacterial diversity......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background To understand the dietary composition of the highly aerial swift (Apodidae), ecologists conventionally depend on the morphological identifi......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background The Rufous-backed Bunting, Emberiza jankowskii, is an endangered species that is primarily distributed in Inner Mongolia, China. The main t......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
The Beijing Swift (Apus apus pekinensis) is a typical cavity-nesting bird that often nests inside holes and crevices in old architectures. Direct obse......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2021; 12 (1)
Background Great diversity exists in the parenting pattern of altricial birds, which has long been considered as an adaptive response to specific envi......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2020; 11 (1)
Background Extra-pair paternity (EPP) in birds provides benefits in terms of more offspring, and characteristics for maintenance of this behaviour hav......
期刊： AVIAN RESEARCH, 2020; 11 (1)
Background The allocation of resources between offspring size and number is a central question of life-history theory. Although several studies have t......
