List of works - Will Cresswell

A fruit diet rather than invertebrate diet maintains a robust innate immunity in an omnivorous tropical songbird

scientific article published on 03 January 2020

Absolute foraging rate and susceptibility to interference competition in blackbirds varies with patch conditions

article

Anti-predation behaviour during bird migration; the benefit of studying multiple behavioural dimensions

Attack frequency, attack success and choice of prey group size for two predators with contrasting hunting strategies

article

Behaviourally mediated indirect effects: interference competition increases predation mortality in foraging redshanks

scientific article published in May 2006

Biparental incubation-scheduling: no experimental evidence for major energetic constraints.

scientific article

Bird species richness and diversity at montane Important Bird Area (IBA) sites in south-eastern Nigeria

Breeding behaviour, home range and habitat selection in Rock Firefinches Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis in the wet and dry season in central Nigeria

scientific article published in 2008

Changes in Sahelian bird biodiversity and tree density over a five‐year period in northern Nigeria

Conservation research output in sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, but only in a few countries

scientific article published in 2020

Cresswell, W., Lind, J., Kaby, U., Quinn, J. L. & Jakobsson, S. 2003. Does an opportunistic predator preferentially attack nonvigilant prey? Animal Behaviour, 66, 643–648

scholarly article by Will Cresswell et al published January 2004 in Animal Behaviour

Defining the key wintering habitats in the Sahel for declining African-Eurasian migrants using expert assessment

article

Densities of Palearctic warblers and Afrotropical species within the same guild in Sahelian West Africa

article

Density and behaviour of WhinchatsSaxicola rubetraon African farmland suggest that winter habitat conditions do not limit European breeding populations

article

Determining the fitness consequences of antipredation behavior

scientific article published in 2005

Diurnal and seasonal mass variation in blackbirds Turdus merula: consequences for mass-dependent predation risk

scientific article published in 1998

Diurnal foraging routines in a tropical bird, the rock finchLagonosticta sanguinodorsalis: how important is predation risk?

article

Do energetic demands constrain incubation scheduling in a biparental species?

article

Do kleptoparasites reduce their own foraging effort in order to detect kleptoparasitic opportunities?: An empirical test of a key assumption of kleptoparasitic models

scientific article published in 2002

Does an opportunistic predator preferentially attack nonvigilant prey?

scholarly article by Will Cresswell et al published October 2003 in Animal Behaviour

Escape response delays in wintering redshank, Tringa totanus, flocks: perceptual limits and economic decisions

article

Escape responses by redshanks, Tringa totanus, on attack by avian predators

article

Faced with a choice, sparrowhawks more often attack the more vulnerable prey group

scientific article published in 2004

Flocking is an effective anti-predation strategy in redshanks, Tringa totanus

FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Geographic variation in baseline innate immune function does not follow variation in aridity along a tropical environmental gradient

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Good foragers can also be good at detecting predators

scientific article published in 2003

How climate change might influence the starvation-predation risk trade-off response

article

How great tits maintain synchronization of their hatch date with food supply in response to long-term variability in temperature

article

How robust are Palearctic migrants to habitat loss and degradation in the Sahel?

scientific article published in 2006

How starvation risk in Redshanks Tringa totanus results in predation mortality from Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus

scientific article published in 2008

Incubation prior to clutch completion accelerates embryonic development and so hatch date for eggs laid earlier in a clutch in the great tit Parus major

article

Individual behavior and survival: the roles of predator avoidance, foraging success, and vigilance

scientific article published in 2009

Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers

scientific article published in 2021

Local human population increase in the non‐breeding areas of long‐distance migrant bird species is only weakly associated with their declines, even for synanthropic species

scientific article published on 17 December 2019

Local prey vulnerability increases with multiple attacks by a predator

scholarly article by John L. Quinn & Will Cresswell published 16 December 2011 in Oikos

Low and annually variable migratory connectivity in a long-distance migrant: Whinchats Saxicola rubetra may show a bet-hedging strategy

scientific article published in 2017

Low migratory connectivity is common in long-distance migrant birds

scientific article

Mass gained during breeding positively correlates with adult survival because both reflect life history adaptation to seasonal food availability

scientific article published on 3 January 2014

Mass regulation in response to predation risk can indicate population declines

article

Mass-dependent predation risk as a mechanism for house sparrow declines?

scientific article (published 2006-03-22)

Multiple effects of weather on the starvation and predation risk trade-off in choice of feeding location in Redshanks

scientific article published in 2003

Nest predation in a fragmented Afrotropical forest: evidence from natural and artificial nests

article

Nest predation: the relative effects of nest characteristics, clutch size and parental behaviour

article published in 1997

Nest scrape design and clutch heat loss in Pectoral Sandpipers (Calidris melanotos)

article by J. M. Reid et al published June 2002 in Functional Ecology

Noise, predation risk compensation and vigilance in the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

article

Non-lethal effects of predation in birds

scientific article published in 2008

Patch choice decisions of wild blackbirds: the role of preharvest public information

Patterns of seasonal and yearly mass variation in West African tropical savannah birds

scientific article published in 2011

Personality constraints versus flexible antipredation behaviors: how important is boldness in risk management of redshanks (Tringa totanus) foraging in a natural system?

scientific article published in 2011

Personality predicts individual responsiveness to the risks of starvation and predation

scientific article

Personality, anti-predation behaviour and behavioural plasticity in the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

article

Population consequences of migratory variability differ between flyways

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Predation in bird populations

Predator hunting behaviour and prey vulnerability

scholarly article by J. L. Quinn & Will Cresswell published January 2004 in Journal of Animal Ecology

Predator-hunting success and prey vulnerability: quantifying the spatial scale over which lethal and non-lethal effects of predation occur

article

Predicting population-level risk effects of predation from the responses of individuals.

scientific article published in July 2014

Predicting the optimal prey group size from predator hunting behaviour

scientific article published on 18 January 2011

Quantifying the interaction between food density and habitat structure in determining patch selection

Relative competitive ability changes with competitor density: evidence from feeding blackbirds

article

Relative competitive ability does not change over time in blackbirds

scientific article published in 2001

Ringing or colour-banding does not increase predation mortality in redshanksTringa totanus

article published in 2007

Seasonal differences in baseline innate immune function are better explained by environment than annual cycle stage in a year-round breeding tropical songbird

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Spring migration strategies of Whinchat Saxicola rubetra when successfully crossing potential barriers of the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in 2018

Survival rates in West African savanna birds

article published in 2013

Survival rates of tropical birds in Nigeria, West Africa

article

Temperature and aridity determine body size conformity to Bergmann's rule independent of latitudinal differences in a tropical environment

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

Testing domains of danger in the selfish herd: sparrowhawks target widely spaced redshanks in flocks.

scientific article

Testing the mass-dependent predation hypothesis: in European blackbirds poor foragers have higher overwinter body reserves

The Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe in the Sahel of West Africa: distribution, seasonal variation in abundance and habitat associations

article

The breeding biology of the endemic Berthelot's Pipit Anthus berthelotii in a harsh oceanic island environment (Tenerife, Canary Islands)

The effect of limited visibility on vigilance behaviour and speed of predator detection: implications for the conservation of granivorous passerines

scientific article published in 2004

The effects of forest fragmentation on the population density and distribution of the globally Endangered Ibadan Malimbe Malimbus ibadanensis and other malimbe species

The energetic costs of egg heating constrain incubation attendance but do not determine daily energy expenditure in the pectoral sandpiper

article by Will Cresswell published 1 May 2004 in Behavioral Ecology

The function of alarm calls in redshanks, Tringa totanus

The phenology mismatch hypothesis: are declines of migrant birds linked to uneven global climate change?

scientific article

The seasonality of breeding in savannah birds of West Africa assessed from brood patch and juvenile occurrence

article

The starvation-predation risk trade-off, body mass and population status in the Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris

scientific article published in 2008

Training future generations to deliver evidence‐based conservation and ecosystem management

scientific article

Travel distance and mass gain in wintering blackbirds

article

User fees across ecosystem boundaries: Are SCUBA divers willing to pay for terrestrial biodiversity conservation?

scientific article

Variable effects of laying date on clutch size in the Canary Island Blue Tits (Cyanistes teneriffae)

article by EDUARDO GARCIA-DEL-REY et al published 7 July 2006 in Ibis

Vigilance and fitness in grey partridges Perdix perdix: the effects of group size and foraging-vigilance trade-offs on predation mortality

scientific article published in March 2007

Vigilance benefits and competition costs in groups: do individual redshanks gain an overall foraging benefit?

article

Weak breeding seasonality of a songbird in a seasonally arid tropical environment arises from individual flexibility and strongly seasonal moult

scientific article published in 2018

Winter segregation of migrant European robinsErithacus rubeculain relation to sex, age and size

article

List of works by Will Cresswell

A fruit diet rather than invertebrate diet maintains a robust innate immunity in an omnivorous tropical songbird

Absolute foraging rate and susceptibility to interference competition in blackbirds varies with patch conditions

Anti-predation behaviour during bird migration; the benefit of studying multiple behavioural dimensions

Attack frequency, attack success and choice of prey group size for two predators with contrasting hunting strategies

Behaviourally mediated indirect effects: interference competition increases predation mortality in foraging redshanks

Biparental incubation-scheduling: no experimental evidence for major energetic constraints.

Bird species richness and diversity at montane Important Bird Area (IBA) sites in south-eastern Nigeria

Breeding behaviour, home range and habitat selection in Rock Firefinches Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis in the wet and dry season in central Nigeria

Changes in Sahelian bird biodiversity and tree density over a five‐year period in northern Nigeria

Conservation research output in sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, but only in a few countries

Cresswell, W., Lind, J., Kaby, U., Quinn, J. L. & Jakobsson, S. 2003. Does an opportunistic predator preferentially attack nonvigilant prey? Animal Behaviour, 66, 643–648

Defining the key wintering habitats in the Sahel for declining African-Eurasian migrants using expert assessment

Densities of Palearctic warblers and Afrotropical species within the same guild in Sahelian West Africa

Density and behaviour of WhinchatsSaxicola rubetraon African farmland suggest that winter habitat conditions do not limit European breeding populations

Determining the fitness consequences of antipredation behavior

Diurnal and seasonal mass variation in blackbirds Turdus merula: consequences for mass-dependent predation risk

Diurnal foraging routines in a tropical bird, the rock finchLagonosticta sanguinodorsalis: how important is predation risk?

Do energetic demands constrain incubation scheduling in a biparental species?

Do kleptoparasites reduce their own foraging effort in order to detect kleptoparasitic opportunities?: An empirical test of a key assumption of kleptoparasitic models

Does an opportunistic predator preferentially attack nonvigilant prey?

Escape response delays in wintering redshank, Tringa totanus, flocks: perceptual limits and economic decisions

Escape responses by redshanks, Tringa totanus, on attack by avian predators

Faced with a choice, sparrowhawks more often attack the more vulnerable prey group

Flocking is an effective anti-predation strategy in redshanks, Tringa totanus

FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments

Geographic variation in baseline innate immune function does not follow variation in aridity along a tropical environmental gradient

Good foragers can also be good at detecting predators

How climate change might influence the starvation-predation risk trade-off response

How great tits maintain synchronization of their hatch date with food supply in response to long-term variability in temperature

How robust are Palearctic migrants to habitat loss and degradation in the Sahel?

How starvation risk in Redshanks Tringa totanus results in predation mortality from Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus

Incubation prior to clutch completion accelerates embryonic development and so hatch date for eggs laid earlier in a clutch in the great tit Parus major

Individual behavior and survival: the roles of predator avoidance, foraging success, and vigilance

Level of local human disturbance and feeding state determines escape behaviour in Eurasian Oystercatchers

Local human population increase in the non‐breeding areas of long‐distance migrant bird species is only weakly associated with their declines, even for synanthropic species

Local prey vulnerability increases with multiple attacks by a predator

Low and annually variable migratory connectivity in a long-distance migrant: Whinchats Saxicola rubetra may show a bet-hedging strategy

Low migratory connectivity is common in long-distance migrant birds

Mass gained during breeding positively correlates with adult survival because both reflect life history adaptation to seasonal food availability

Mass regulation in response to predation risk can indicate population declines

Mass-dependent predation risk as a mechanism for house sparrow declines?

Multiple effects of weather on the starvation and predation risk trade-off in choice of feeding location in Redshanks

Nest predation in a fragmented Afrotropical forest: evidence from natural and artificial nests

Nest predation: the relative effects of nest characteristics, clutch size and parental behaviour

Nest scrape design and clutch heat loss in Pectoral Sandpipers (Calidris melanotos)

Noise, predation risk compensation and vigilance in the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

Non-lethal effects of predation in birds

Patch choice decisions of wild blackbirds: the role of preharvest public information

Patterns of seasonal and yearly mass variation in West African tropical savannah birds

Personality constraints versus flexible antipredation behaviors: how important is boldness in risk management of redshanks (Tringa totanus) foraging in a natural system?

Personality predicts individual responsiveness to the risks of starvation and predation

Personality, anti-predation behaviour and behavioural plasticity in the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

Population consequences of migratory variability differ between flyways

Predation in bird populations

Predator hunting behaviour and prey vulnerability

Predator-hunting success and prey vulnerability: quantifying the spatial scale over which lethal and non-lethal effects of predation occur

Predicting population-level risk effects of predation from the responses of individuals.

Predicting the optimal prey group size from predator hunting behaviour

Quantifying the interaction between food density and habitat structure in determining patch selection

Relative competitive ability changes with competitor density: evidence from feeding blackbirds

Relative competitive ability does not change over time in blackbirds

Ringing or colour-banding does not increase predation mortality in redshanksTringa totanus

Seasonal differences in baseline innate immune function are better explained by environment than annual cycle stage in a year-round breeding tropical songbird

Spring migration strategies of Whinchat Saxicola rubetra when successfully crossing potential barriers of the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea

Survival rates in West African savanna birds

Survival rates of tropical birds in Nigeria, West Africa

Temperature and aridity determine body size conformity to Bergmann's rule independent of latitudinal differences in a tropical environment

Testing domains of danger in the selfish herd: sparrowhawks target widely spaced redshanks in flocks.

Testing the mass-dependent predation hypothesis: in European blackbirds poor foragers have higher overwinter body reserves

The Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe in the Sahel of West Africa: distribution, seasonal variation in abundance and habitat associations

The breeding biology of the endemic Berthelot's Pipit Anthus berthelotii in a harsh oceanic island environment (Tenerife, Canary Islands)

The effect of limited visibility on vigilance behaviour and speed of predator detection: implications for the conservation of granivorous passerines

The effects of forest fragmentation on the population density and distribution of the globally Endangered Ibadan Malimbe Malimbus ibadanensis and other malimbe species

The energetic costs of egg heating constrain incubation attendance but do not determine daily energy expenditure in the pectoral sandpiper

The function of alarm calls in redshanks, Tringa totanus

The phenology mismatch hypothesis: are declines of migrant birds linked to uneven global climate change?

The seasonality of breeding in savannah birds of West Africa assessed from brood patch and juvenile occurrence

The starvation-predation risk trade-off, body mass and population status in the Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris

Training future generations to deliver evidence‐based conservation and ecosystem management