We are happy to share a recent work by our two members, Peter Mikula and Tomas Albrecht, exploring large-scale correlates of aerial displays in passerine #birds. Available here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

New paper from our working group!

New paper from a member of our working group, Peter Mikula, on the effect of refuge distance on escape behaviour of European urban birds.

Are there parallels in how birds, machines, and humans learn to recognize bird vocalizations? Maybe. Teaching Merlin Bird ID to recognize birds by their sounds has been challenging for a variety of reasons.

The propensity to innovate in birds is related to pallial neuron numbers as well as absolute and relative brain size rdcu.be/cRpsl

You can still submit your contributions to the conference organized by Česká společnost pro ekologii!

Interested in escape behaviour of birds and their tolerance towards human? Check out my poster #319 at #ECCB2022_Prague (@ECCB_2022).

New research on large-scale variation in avian physiology from our lab. Check it out!

⚠️Joint project call⚠️Interested in escape distances of 🐧🦆🦅🦉🦃🦤🦚🦜🦢🦩? We are currently working on 🌎🌍🌏 database for this trait. Share your primary data with us and join our international team! Retweets much appreciated. Details👇: researchgate.net/project/Avian-…

Costly investments in #sperm? Males producing large ejaculates tend to live shorter lives in sexually promiscuous barn swallows. New paper from the members of our team! Fulltext 👉 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our team member, Peter Mikula, collaborated with a large international initiative exploring language barriers in conservation science. Results of their effort were recently published in NatureSustainability. Congratulations!

International study on avian tolerance towards human across open tropical ecosystems, led by colleagues from our working group, was published today in Nature Communications ! Congratulations!

NEW in #JVertBiol: Sources of variation in baseline and stress-induced blood glucose levels in two free-living tropical passerine species doi.org/10.25225/jvb.2… BioOne | Czech Academy of Sciences |@AEEGIVB | #ornithology

New paper from our team!

Schlebusch et al. (2023) Rapid gene content turnover on the germline-restricted chromosome in songbirds Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467… | Francisco J Ruiz-Ruano Alexander Suh 서상재 Faculty of Science of Charles University Institute of Molecular Genetics Avian Evolutionary Ecology Group at IVB Institute of Vertebrate Biology | #ornithology

NEW in #JVertBiol: Comparative sperm proteomics in selected passerine birds reflects sperm morphology and mitochondrial metabolism doi.org/10.25225/jvb.2… BioOne | Czech Academy of Sciences |@StopkaPavel | @RStopkova |BIOCEV_SCIENCE |Faculty of Science of Charles University|Avian Evolutionary Ecology Group at IVB| #ornithology

Have you ever wondered why animals did not enter urban areas more frequently during the COVID-19 pandemic? Our research in Communications Biology shows that even in empty cities, the level of animal tolerance to humans remained the same as it was before the pandemic. 👉rdcu.be/dN7rM