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Authors marked in bold are EvolEcol members. Fülöp A, Czirják GÁ, Pap PL and Vágási CI 2016. Feather-degrading bacteria, uropygial gland and feather quality in House Sparrows Passer domesticus. Ibis (in press). Abstract: Feathers are dead integumentary structures that are prone … Continue reading →

24th of November Today we celebrate the 156th anniversary of Charles R. Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species getting published. Happy holiday! We are also happy to announce that the Hungarian Ethological Society awarded the prize of Best Young … Continue reading →

Authors marked in bold are EvolEcol members. Vincze O, Vágási CI, Pap PL, Osváth G and Møller AP 2015. Brain regions associated with visual cues are important for bird migration. Biology Letters (in press). Abstract: Long-distance migratory birds have relatively … Continue reading →

Many beautiful birds, nice location, good company. Watch this short movie. This camp also helped us to gather data that were used in phylogenetic comparative analyses about feather structure and wing morphology. Further details about the ringing camp can be … Continue reading →

Authors marked in bold are EvolEcol members. Vágási CI, Pap PL, Vincze O, Osváth G, Erritzøe J and Møller AP 2015. Morphological adaptations to migration in birds. Evolutionary Biology (in press). Abstract: Migratory flight performance has direct or carry-over effects … Continue reading →

Authors marked in bold are EvolEcol members. Paștiu AI, Pap PL, Vágási CI, Niculae M, Páll E, Brudașcă FG and Spînu M 2015. Wild birds in Romania are more exposed to West Nile virus than to Newcastle Disease virus. Vector-Borne … Continue reading →

Our paper on the functional morphology of flight feathers was appreciated by a Functional Ecology Spotlight written by Luke K. Butler. Moreover, the cover image of the issue shows a common tern Sterna hirundo hovering above the water of the … Continue reading →

Our results show that the material and structural properties of wing and tail feathers of barn swallows change as a result of aerodynamic forces and sexual selection, although the result of these changes can be contrasting. Authors marked by boldface … Continue reading →

Today, 20 March is the World Sparrow Day! The official website dedicated to this holiday can be found here: http://www.worldsparrowday.org/ Our post the last year related to WSD: Tribute to sparrows Darwin bless all the sparrows!

Not exactly within the profile of our group, not exactly about birds, but still flight-capable organisms. This time a more applied study about biological invasions. Biological invasion is considered as one of the major threats for biodiversity. We studied the … Continue reading →