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Saltmarsh vegetation and social environment influence flexible seasonal vigilance strategies for two sympatric migratory curlew species in adjacent coastal habitats

Authors: Jing Zhang, Hang Zhang, Yu Liu, Huw Lloyd, Jianqiang Li, Zhengwang Zhang and Donglai Li

Content type: Research

18 July 2021
Coastal wetlands in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China: probably the most important site globally for the Asian Dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus)

Authors: Ziyou Yang, Jing Li, Yongxiang Han, Chris J. Hassell, Kar-Sin Katherine Leung, David S. Melville, Yat-tung Yu, Lin Zhang and Chi-Yeung Choi

Content type: Research

8 July 2021
Male parent birds exert more effort to reproduce in two desert passerines

Authors: Donghui Ma, Mengjie Lu, Zhichang Cheng, Xingnan Du, Xiaoyu Zou, Xingxing Yao and Xinkang Bao

Content type: Research

6 July 2021
High philopatry rates of Yellow-legged Gulls in the southeastern part of the Bay of Biscay

Authors: Sergio Delgado, Alfredo Herrero, Asier Aldalur and Juan Arizaga

Content type: Research

29 June 2021
Microhabitat characteristics related to seasonal roost switching: implications from a threatened and introduced cockatoo species in an urban landscape

Authors: Sifeng Wang and L. M. Chu

Content type: Research

28 June 2021

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Why cuckoos should parasitize parrotbills by laying eggs randomly rather than laying eggs matching the egg appearance of parrotbill hosts?

Authors: Canchao Yang, Fugo Takasu, Wei Liang and Anders P Møller

Content type: Review

1 April 2015
Integrative taxonomy of the Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli complex reveals a new species from central China

Authors: Per Alström, Canwei Xia, Pamela C Rasmussen, Urban Olsson, Bo Dai, Jian Zhao, Paul J Leader, Geoff J Carey, Lu Dong, Tianlong Cai, Paul I Holt, Hung Le Manh, Gang Song, Yang Liu, Yanyun Zhang and Fumin Lei

Content type: Research

1 May 2015
Integrative taxonomy of the Plain-backed Thrush (Zoothera mollissima) complex (Aves, Turdidae) reveals cryptic species, including a new species

Authors: Per Alström, Pamela C. Rasmussen, Chao Zhao, Jingzi Xu, Shashank Dalvi, Tianlong Cai, Yuyan Guan, Ruiying Zhang, Mikhail V. Kalyakin, Fumin Lei and Urban Olsson

Content type: Research

20 January 2016
Food preferences by birds using bird-feeders in winter: a large-scale experiment

Authors: Piotr Tryjanowski, Anders Pape Møller, Federico Morelli, Piotr Indykiewicz, Piotr Zduniak and Łukasz Myczko

Content type: Research

18 May 2018
Gender identification using acoustic analysis in birds without external sexual dimorphism

Authors: Ilya A. Volodin, Elena V. Volodina, Anna V. Klenova and Vera A. Matrosova

Content type: Review

13 November 2015

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Avian Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing high quality research and review articles on all aspects of ornithology from all over the world. It aims to report the latest and most significant progress in ornithology and to encourage exchange of ideas among international ornithologists. As an open access journal, Avian Research provides a unique opportunity to publish high quality contents that will be internationally accessible to any reader at no cost.

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Avian Physiological Ecology
Submission deadline: 30 July 2021
This thematic series will focus on how free-living birds have undergone adaptive changes in their physiology in response to selective pressures imposed by their environment to maximize fitness. We welcome any innovative research articles or updated reviews on aspects of physiological ecology. The coverage includes, but is not limited to: environmental neuroendocrinology, metabolism and thermal biology, comparative physiological ecology, etc.

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Avian Research is supported by the China Ornithological Society and the Beijing Forestry University.

The publication costs for Avian Research are covered by Beijing Forestry University, so authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge for each article accepted for publication.

Previous volumes

Avian Research was previously published under the name Chinese Birds, Volumes 1-4 of the journal can be found here.

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Saltmarsh vegetation and social environment influence flexible seasonal vigilance strategies for two sympatric migratory curlew species in adjacent coastal habitats

Coastal wetlands in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China: probably the most important site globally for the Asian Dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus)

Male parent birds exert more effort to reproduce in two desert passerines

High philopatry rates of Yellow-legged Gulls in the southeastern part of the Bay of Biscay

Microhabitat characteristics related to seasonal roost switching: implications from a threatened and introduced cockatoo species in an urban landscape

Why cuckoos should parasitize parrotbills by laying eggs randomly rather than laying eggs matching the egg appearance of parrotbill hosts?

Integrative taxonomy of the Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli complex reveals a new species from central China

Integrative taxonomy of the Plain-backed Thrush (Zoothera mollissima) complex (Aves, Turdidae) reveals cryptic species, including a new species

Food preferences by birds using bird-feeders in winter: a large-scale experiment

Gender identification using acoustic analysis in birds without external sexual dimorphism

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