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14 October 2019

Exotic parrots breeding in urban tree cavities: nesting requirements, geographic distribution, and potential impacts on cavity nesting birds in southeast Florida

Authors: Joshua M. Diamond and Michael S. Ross
Content type: Research

14 October 2019

Optimal diet strategy of a large-bodied psittacine: food resource abundance and nutritional content enable facultative dietary specialization by the Military Macaw

Authors: Sylvia Margarita de la Parra-Martínez, Luis Guillermo Muñoz-Lacy, Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza and Katherine Renton
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4 October 2019

Egg recognition in Cinereous Tits (Parus cinereus): eggshell spots matter

Authors: Jianping Liu, Canchao Yang, Jiangping Yu, Haitao Wang and Wei Liang
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17 September 2019

Species delimitation within the Glaucidium brodiei owlet complex using bioacoustic tools

Authors: Chyi Yin Gwee, James A. Eaton, Elize Y. X. Ng and Frank E. Rheindt
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13 September 2019

Bergmann’s rule and Allen’s rule in two passerine birds in China

Authors: Liqing Fan, Tianlong Cai, Ying Xiong, Gang Song and Fumin Lei

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Content type: Review
| 1 April 2015

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: Research
| 1 May 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
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| 20 January 2016

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
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| 11 July 2015

Identification of coastal wetlands of international importance for waterbirds: a review of China Coastal Waterbird Surveys 2005–2013

Authors: Qingquan Bai, Jianzhong Chen, Zhihong Chen, Guotai Dong, Jiangtian Dong, Wenxiao Dong, Vivian Wing Kan Fu, Yongxiang Han, Gang Lu, Jing Li, Yang Liu, Zhi Lin, Derong Meng, Jonathan Martinez, Guanghui Ni, Kai Shan…
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| 23 September 2014

Seasonal variation in body mass and energy budget in Chinese bulbuls (pycnonotus sinensis)

Authors: Mengsi Wu, Yuchao Xiao, Fang Yang, Limeng Zhou, Weihong Zheng and Jinsong Liu

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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 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.

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

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Exotic parrots breeding in urban tree cavities: nesting requirements, geographic distribution, and potential impacts on cavity nesting birds in southeast Florida

Optimal diet strategy of a large-bodied psittacine: food resource abundance and nutritional content enable facultative dietary specialization by the Military Macaw

Egg recognition in Cinereous Tits (Parus cinereus): eggshell spots matter

Species delimitation within the Glaucidium brodiei owlet complex using bioacoustic tools

Bergmann’s rule and Allen’s rule in two passerine birds in China

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

Identification of coastal wetlands of international importance for waterbirds: a review of China Coastal Waterbird Surveys 2005–2013

Seasonal variation in body mass and energy budget in Chinese bulbuls (pycnonotus sinensis)

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