List of works by Jesús Miguel Avilés

Alarm calls modulate the spatial structure of a breeding owl community.

scientific article published on 25 January 2012

An experimental test of host's life history traits modulation in response to cuckoo parasitism risk.

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Are female starlings able to recognize the scent of their offspring?

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Armed rollers: does nestling's vomit function as a defence against predators?

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

Avian and rodent responses to the olfactory landscape in a Mediterranean cavity community

scientific article published on 17 August 2019

Avian colour perception predicts behavioural responses to experimental brood parasitism in chaffinches.

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Brood parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds and the expression of sexual characters in their hosts

scientific article published on 13 January 2005

Colour polymorphism in owls is linked to light variability.

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Cuckoo hosts shift from accepting to rejecting parasitic eggs across their lifetime.

scientific article published in August 2014

Dark nests and conspicuousness in color patterns of nestlings of altricial birds

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Dark nests and egg colour in birds: a possible functional role of ultraviolet reflectance in egg detectability.

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Disentangling migratory routes and wintering grounds of Iberian near-threatened European Rollers Coracias garrulus.

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Do avian brood parasites eavesdrop on heterospecific sexual signals revealing host quality? A review of the evidence.

scientific article published on 19 December 2006

Do spotless starlings place feathers at their nests by ultraviolet color?

scientific article published on 26 November 2009

Does avian conspicuous colouration increase or reduce predation risk?

scientific article published on 06 February 2013

Eavesdropping cuckoos: further insights on great spotted cuckoo preference by magpie nests and egg colour

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Egg colour mimicry in the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus as revealed by modelling host retinal function

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Egg phenotype matching by cuckoos in relation to discrimination by hosts and climatic conditions

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Evidence of long-term structured cuckoo parasitism on individual magpie hosts

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

Exploratory behaviour modulates the relationship between colony familiarity and helping in a cooperative bird.

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Fearsome white owls

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Grasshoppers do not flee from their alarmed predators but from non-alarmed ones

scientific article published in 2024

Important areas for the conservation of the European Roller <i>Coracias garrulus</i> during the non-breeding season in southern Africa

scientific article published in 2018

Melanism influences the use of social information in a polymorphic owl

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Nestling coloration is adjusted to parent visual performance in altricial birds irrespective of assumptions on vision system for Laniidae and owls, a reply to Renoult et al.

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Nestling colouration is adjusted to parent visual performance in altricial birds

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Phaeomelanin matters: Redness associates with inter-individual differences in behaviour and feather corticosterone in male scops owls (Otus scops)

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Predation risk determines breeding territory choice in a Mediterranean cavity-nesting bird community

scientific article published on 22 July 2010

Receivers matter: the meaning of alarm calls and competition for nest sites in a bird community

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Sex Difference in Condition Dependence of Carotenoid Gapes in the Eurasian Roller (Coracias garrulus).

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Sex recognition by odour and variation in the uropygial gland secretion in starlings.

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Sexually selected egg coloration in spotless starlings.

scientific article published in February 2008

Sibling competition and conspicuousness of nestling gapes in altricial birds: a comparative study

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The common cuckoo Cuculus canorus is not locally adapted to its reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus host

scientific article published on 04 November 2010

The reliability of achromatic displays is island‐dependent in nocturnal Storm Petrels

scientific article published in 2019

Visual cues and parental favouritism in a nocturnal bird.

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