For those who are not familiar with birds as experimental animals perhaps it should be pointed out that they offer many advantages over mammals, although they are obviously not the ideal animal for certain experiments. Few laboratories work with birds other than poultry, but canaries and other cage birds are occasionally used when their special qualities are applicable, as in work with low conc...

Ticks (Acari: Ixodida) are hematophagous ectoparasites of a wide variety mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the vectors many pathogenic agents, such as bacteria, protozoa, viruses. The seasonal movement migration birds is one main causes dispersal ticks tick-borne pathogens. Therefore, identification associated with migratory fundamental step to understand ecology infesting evaluate thei...

This is an excerpt from Hamilton Jordan's book No Such Thing as a Bad Day reprinted with permission.

Animal communication signals can be highly elaborate, and researchers have long sought explanations for their evolutionary origins. For example, how did signals such as the tail-fan display of a peacock, a firefly flash or a wolf howl evolve? Animal communication theory holds that many signals evolved from non-signalling behaviours through the process of ritualization. Empirical evidence for ri...

Exotic predators are a major threat to native wildlife in many parts of the world. Developing and implementing effective strategies to mitigate their effects requires robust quantitative data so that management can be evidence-based, yet in many ecosystems this is missing. Birds in particular have been severely impacted by exotic mammalian predators, and a plethora of studies on islands record ...