Ana V. Leitão

Predation and the Evolution of Island Bird Plumage Colouration: Experimental Insights from Island and Mainland Environments

This study investigates how predation pressure differs between island and mainland habitats and its relationship with bird plumage conspicuousness using 3D-printed models.

Advancing cooperative breeding research with a peer-reviewed and "live" Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD)

The paper introduces Co-BreeD, a peer-reviewed and updatable database for cooperative breeding research, showing cooperative breeding is more prevalent than previously estimated.

Revealing complex relationships between sex, individuals' phenotype variation and social signalling in foraging strategies

The paper examines how sex, plumage coloration, and boldness influence foraging strategies in European serins, showing sex-dependent links between individual traits and social foraging tactics.