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Today, 20 March, is the World Sparrow Day. We pay a tribute to house sparrows Passer domesticus for being cute collaborators in our projects. For more information about WSD, check the official website. The site and the WSD are meant … Continue reading →

A Point-of-View about the use of feather holes as surrogate measure of phthirapteran lice infestation was accepted for publication in Journal of Avian Biology. Vágási CI 2014. The origin of feather holes: a word of caution. Journal of Avian Biology … Continue reading →

In a previous News post we presented a long-term experiment in which infestation by an intestinal unicellular parasite (Isospora coccidian) was manipulated in a group of house sparrows (medicated with anticoccidial drug), while another group served as control (not medicated, … Continue reading →

New paper published in collaboration with several scientists. Møller AP, Merino S, Soler JJ, Antonov A, Badás EP, Calero-Torralbo MA, de Lope F, Eeva T, Figuerola J, Flensted-Jensen E, Garamszegi LZ, González-Braojos S, Gwinner H, Hanssen SA, Heylen D, Ilmonen … Continue reading →

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,500 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

This post provides an abstract of what we achieved in 2013 both within and out of the scope of our CNCSIS grant (#TE 291/2010), which ran out by the end of 2013. The year 2013 was the most productive (in … Continue reading →

We upgraded the two outdoor aviaries located at the campus of Babes-Bolyai University. House sparrows confined here had only small rainproof shelters until now. The current brand new roof protects the birds and the aviaries’ structure as well. The transparent … Continue reading →

Our manuscript mentioned earlier (see News #25 & #28) was finally accepted for publication in Behavioral Ecology. Authors marked with boldface are financed by a CNCSIS research grant (PN II. RU TE 291/2010). Bókony V, Lendvai ÁZ, Vágási CI, Pătraș … Continue reading →

Our manuscript mentioned earlier (see News #25) was provisionally accepted for publication in Behavioral Ecology. Authors marked with boldface are financed by a CNCSIS research grant (PN II. RU TE 291/2010). Bókony V, Lendvai ÁZ, Vágási CI, Pătraș L, Pap … Continue reading →

Our manuscript mentioned in the previous News post was accepted for publication in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. The title has changed meanwhile. Authors with boldface are financed by a CNCSIS grant (PN II. RU TE 291/2010) and those … Continue reading →