With global surface air temperature rising rapidly, extensive research effort has been
dedicated to assessing the consequences of this change for wildlife. While impacts on the …

Plumage coloration can have substantial effects on a bird's energy budget. This is because
different colours reflect and absorb light differently, affecting the heat loads acquired from …

As global temperatures reach record highs, threats posed by climate change to biodiversity
become ever more severe. For endotherms, maintaining body temperature within safe …

Highlights•Western Australian magpies perform worse in a learning task when heat
stressed.•Individual performance was repeatable within, but not between, conditions.•Birds …

Characterizing heat tolerance is critical for predicting an organism's vulnerability to climate
warming. Recent studies of ectotherms report that impacts of climate warming are expected …

Climate change is affecting animal populations around the world and one relatively
unexplored aspect of species vulnerability is whether and to what extent responses to …

Weather influences both the distribution and life-history strategies of birds. Temperature
ranks amongst the more important weather parameters in this regard since warming springs …

Long-term studies on the impacts of global change on reproduction are rare, even though
reproductive output can respond more quickly than species' abundances or distributions. We …

Given the current pace of climate change, high temperature events will become increasingly
frequent in many parts of the world. Predicting how high temperatures will impact the …

Rapid anthropogenic climate change potentially severely reduces avian breeding success.
While the consequences of high temperatures and drought are reasonably well-studied …