Magazine article from our research archive:
|
|
Recent advances in the behavioral ecology of tropical birds: the 2005 Margaret Morse Nice lecture.(Report)
- Article from:
-
The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
-
March 1, 2008
- Author:
-
;
|
Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Wilson Ornithological Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Tropical birds offer unique opportunities to test ecological and evolutionary theory because their life history traits are so diverse and different from temperate zone models upon which most empirical studies are based. We review recent studies on the behavioral ecology of tropical birds, studies that explore new advances in this field. Life histories and their evolution remain the focus of research on tropical birds. Clutch size manipulations in two species showed that food limitation does not explain small clutch size. In antbirds, enlarged clutches decreased post-fledging survival whereas in thrushes, enlarged broods were costly due to high nest predation. Small clutches may be favored ...
<0.0002). They also showed that birds with short breeding seasons, including high altitude breeders, had high testosterone relative to those with long breeding seasons. Seasonally-breeding tropical birds with breeding season territoriality like temperate birds, had>
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds. (Ornithological Literature).(Book...
Wilson Bulletin;
June 1, 2002 ;
479 words
...BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF TROPICAL BIRDS. By B. J. M. Stutchbury...the differences between tropical birds and those that reside...steeped in the lore of Temperate Zone dogma. They postulate...by constraints of the Temperate Zone before it is too late...those interested only in ...
|
|
|
(book review)
Wilson Bulletin;
September 1, 2001 ;
635 words
...BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY OF TROPICAL BIRDS. By Bridget J. M. Stutchbury...ecology of birds in the temperate zone is insufficient to...tyrannina) to argue that tropical bird communities respond...typical of males in the temperate zone during the breeding...behavioral patterns of ...
|
 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
|
CITY WANTS TROPICAL BIRDS TO FLY
Post-Tribune (IN);
May 25, 1990 ;
211 words
......s west side is raising and selling tropical birds from her home in violation of zoning...of 1309 Del Vista Drive is selling tropical birds from her residence and doesn't have...Strum had a dozen or more full-grown tropical birds in her home and numerous baby birds...
|
|
FOLLOWING IN DARWIN'S FOOTPRINTS: MICHAELA HAU UNLOCKS SECRETS OF TROPICAL...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
February 27, 2006 ;
700+ words
......tradition. Her studies of tropical birds may shed light on the mysteries...lineages. This is where the tropical birds come in. During the Ice Age...landscape. Thus, many of today's temperate-zone birds have evolved from tropical ancestors. In fact, this...world's bird species ...
|
|
|
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA SCIENTIST LANDS GRANT TO STUDY TROPICAL BIRDS IN...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
December 24, 2008 ;
700+ words
......differences between populations of tropical birds in Asia and those in Africa and South...noticed a huge global divergence among tropical birds on different continents. In Africa...was the first to notice that Asian tropical birds still have long lives even though they...
|
|
Aviary raid
The Independent - London;
January 25, 1994 ;
22 words
...Ninety tropical birds worth pounds 3,000, including parrots and cockateels, were stolen from an aviary in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire.
|
|
Birds of Paradise
Americas;
July 1, 2008 ;
514 words
......rest-scientists discovered that the tropical birds use less energy to maintain normal...their temperate cousins. "We found that tropical birds have a slow pace of life which is reflected...fits with the life history of these tropical birds, which is different than those living...
|
|
Temperate Zone
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;
37 words
...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 Temperate Zone either of the two zones of the earth (North Temperate Zone and South Temperate Zone) between the tropics and the polar circles Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
|
 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
|
Gang target rare parrots.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);
May 12, 1997 ;
63 words
...Tropical birds stolen in Scotland may have been taken by English thieves. Three parrots...were snatched from the Borders and recovered in Newcastle. Traders in tropical birds fear that organised gangs are coming to Scotland more often to steal...
|
|
SURVIVAL RATES OF A NEOTROPICAL PARROT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LATITUDINAL...
Ecology;
May 1, 2000 ;
700+ words
......attempts to determine the survivorship of tropical birds with mark-recapture statistics have...body size but was lower than that of tropical birds that lay smaller clutches. However...consecutive years. A literature review for tropical birds showe d that mark-resighting studies...
|
|
USPS: Tropical birds take flight from post offices
M2 Presswire;
July 22, 1998 ;
404 words
...M2 PRESSWIRE-22 July 1998-USPS: Tropical birds take flight from post offices (C)1994-...160798 WASHINGTON -- Seventy million Tropical Birds stamps will begin their flight from...coast of Puerto Rico. The other two tropical birds featured in the block of four stamps...
|
|
|
trogon
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;
30 words
...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 tro|gon (tro'gn) n. any of an order (Trogoniformes) of bright-colored, fruit-eating tropical birds Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
|
|
|
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: Volunteers needed to help save tropical birds.
M2 Presswire;
November 24, 1998 ;
464 words
......UNIVERSITY: Volunteers needed to help save tropical birds (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...small villages in Ecuador to study tropical birds, their distribution and abundance...together to locate, measure and band tropical birds. Becker said that in her past experience...
|
|
|
Down where the iguanas play
The Independent - London;
July 20, 1996 ;
700+ words
......you can see - and sometimes handle - snakes, tarantulas, tropical birds and fish, while outside there are play and picnic areas...stroking snakes and shouts of "shut up" to the shrieking tropical birds. Yet he clearly knows his subject and takes on many animals...
|
See all results.
Or, try our
Advanced Search.
|