The ability of feathers to perform many functions either simultaneously or at different times
throughout the year or life of a bird is integral to the evolutionary history of birds. Many …

The first comprehensive review of all aspects of the biology of moult, drawing information
from across the literature and in all birds, from penguins to passerines. Feathers are …

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve true flapping flight, but in the absence of
living representatives, many questions concerning their biology and lifestyle remain …

Abstract “Diversity” is an apt descriptor of the research career of Jack Pettigrew as it ranged
from the study of trees, to clinical conditions, to sensory neuroscience. Within sensory …

Once a year, penguins undergo a catastrophic moult, replacing their entire plumage during
a fasting period on land or on sea-ice during which time individuals can lose 45% of their …

Three families of probe-foraging birds, Scolopacidae (sandpipers and snipes), Apterygidae
(kiwi), and Threskiornithidae (ibises, including spoonbills) have independently evolved long …

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …

Facial bristles are one of the least described feather types and have not yet been
systematically studied across phylogenetically diverse avian species. Consequently, little is …

Over the course of the last two decades, the understanding of the early evolution of feathers
in nonavian dinosaurs has been revolutionized. It is now recognized that early feathers had …

Recent discoveries of vertebrate remains trapped in middle Cretaceous amber from northern
Myanmar [1, 2] have provided insights into the morphology of soft-tissue structures in extinct …