Passerines moult during various life-cycle stages.Some of these moults involve the retention of a variable quantity of wing and tail feathers.This prompts the question whether these partial moults are just arrested co...
P07-CVI-02700 from the Con-sejería de Innovacion,Ciencia y Empresa(Junta de Andalucía)/EU-ERDF.
After breeding,Black-necked Grebes(Podiceps nigricollis)perform a moult-migration to autumn hypersaline staging sites,where they moult the flight feathers and forage on superabundant brine shrimp(Artemia spp.)before l...
funded by FCT with grants to JSC(SFRH/BD/113580/2015),JAA(SFRH/BPD/91527/2012),RC(SFRH/BPD/118635/2016);benefited from financial support to CESAM(UID/AMB/50017/2019),through national funds(FCT/MCTES).
Background: Accurate estimation of nestlings’ age is essential in avian demography studies as well as in population ecology and conservation. For example, it can be useful for synchronizing nest visits with events of...
Background:Most of long-distance migratory raptors suspend moult during migration but detailed information is patchy for most of the Palearctic species.The aim of this research is to verify if active moulting in migra...