The widespread use of artificial nestboxes has led to significant advances in our knowledge
of the ecology, behaviour and physiology of cavity nesting birds, especially small …

Life‐history traits in birds, such as lifespan, age at maturity, and rate of reproduction, vary
across environments and in combinations imposed by trade‐offs and limitations of …

Food limitation is generally thought to underlie much of the variation in life history traits of
birds. I examined variation and covariation of life history traits of 123 North American …

We reviewed the avian literature for quantitative studies of sex biases in dispersal and found
continued and strengthened support for the general pattern of female biased dispersal …

I studied 787 female and 510 male Prothonotary Warblers (Protonotaria citrea) breeding in
southern Illinois, USA, from 1994 to 2000 to test two competing hypotheses that may explain …

Based on more than 300 individually marked American Robins (Turdus migratorisu) and
Brown Thrashers (Toxostoma rufum), I tested three hypotheses to explain low return rates of …

The importance of dispersal for population genetics, population dynamics, and conservation
biology is well established. We studied natal dispersal of Great Tits between Wytham Wood …

The degree of natal philopatry (the likelihood that individuals breed at or near their place of
origin) can influence the extent of inbreeding in animal populations. Passerine birds have …

Over a 9‐yr period, we studied dispersal of young banded Savannah Sparrows
(Passerculus sandwichensis) from their natal nest to the site where they first bred 1 yr later in …

(1) We studied breeding dispersal in male and female great reed warblers (Acrocephalus
arundinaceus L.) at lake Kvismaren in South Central Sweden from 1984 to 1990. In the two …