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2021
  • The cost of ectoparasitism in cliff swallows declines over 35 years

​2020
  • Smaller brained cliff swallows are more likely to die during harsh weather
  • Cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) from Birds of the World Online
  • Mary Bomberger Brown, 1957-2019

2019
  • Variation in neophobia among cliff swallows at different colonies
  • Ecological correlates of group integrity among dispersing cliff swallows 
  • Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) from Birds of the World online

2018
  • Extreme group sizes in a colonial bird favored during a rare climatic event
  • Changing patterns of natural selection on morphology of cliff swallows during severe weather
  •  Parasites favor intermediate nestling mass and brood size in cliff swallows

2017
  •  Why come back home? Breeding-site fidelity varies with group size and parasite load in a colonial bird
  • No detectable insecticide resistance in swallow bugs following long-term exposure to naled (Dibrom 8) 

2016
  • Fluctuating survival selection explains variation in avian group size
  • The ecology and evolution of colony-size variation
  • Convergent evolution in social swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae)

2015
  • Parent‒offspring resemblance in colony-specific adult survival of cliff swallows
  • Predation by ants controls swallow bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Oeciacus vicarius) infestations
  • A hybrid cliff x barn swallow from western Nebraska 
  • Costs and benefits of late nesting in cliff swallows 
  • Ectoparasitism shortens the breeding season in a colonial bird

2014​
  • Dispersing hemipteran vectors have reduced arbovirus prevalence
  • Breeding time in a migratory songbird is predicted by drought severity and group size
  • Variation in age composition among colony sizes in cliff swallows
  • The effect of weather on morphometric traits of juvenile cliff swallows

2013
  • Where has all the road kill gone?
  • Where has all the road kill gone? (Supplemental Materials)
  • Spatial and temporal unpredictability of colony size in cliff swallows across 30 years
  • Fluctuating viability selection on morphology of cliff swallows is driven by climate
  • Recapture heterogeneity in cliff swallows:  increased exposure to mist nets leads to net avoidance
  • Among-individual variation in vigilance at the nest in colonial cliff swallows
  • ​Immune responses of a native and an invasive bird to Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) and its arthropod vector,   the swallow bug 

2012
  • Arbovirus infection is a major determinant of fitness in house sparrows that invade cliff swallow colonies
  • ​Seasonal variation and age-related correlates of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae) infection in nestling house sparrows
  • Prevalence of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) in insect vectors increases over time in the presence of an invasive avian host​
  • Birds of Southwestern Nebraska

2011
  • Heritable choice of colony size in cliff swallows: does experience trump genetics in older birds?
  • Group size and nest spacing affect Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) infection in nestling house sparrows
  • Intense natural selection on morphology of cliff swallows a decade later: did the population move between adaptive peaks?
  • Isolation by distance explains genetic structure of Buggy Creek virus, a bird-associated arbovirus
  • An enzootic vector-borne virus is amplified at epizootic levels by an invasive avian host
  • Are Wild Birds Important in the Transport of Arthropod-borne Viruses?
 
2010
  • Swallows along the Platte, part 1
  • ​Swallows along the Platte, part 2
  • Persistence of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae, Alphavirus) for two years in unfed swallow bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Oeciacus vicarius)
  • Natural infection of vertebrate hosts by different lineages of Buggy Creek virus (family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus)
  • Prevalence and pathology of West Nile virus in naturally infected house sparrows, western Nebraska, 2008
  • Winter ecology of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae, Alphavirus) in the central Great Plains
  • How cliff swallows choose where to live​
  • Pathology and virus detection in tissues of nestling house sparrows naturally infected with Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae)

2009
  • Ecological divergence of two sympatric lineages of Buggy Creek virus, an arbovirus associated with birds​
  • Blood sampling reduces annual survival in cliff swallows
  • Lithobates catesbeianus (American bullfrog) predation on cliff swallows
  • Overwintering of infectious Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) in Oeciacus vicarius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) in North Dakota​
  • ​Isolation of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae: Alphavirus) from field-collected eggs of Oeciacus vicarius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)
  • A cost of coloniality comes home to roost: natural and introduced hosts of Buggy Creek virus

2008
  • Familiarity with breeding habitat improves daily survival in colonial cliff swallows
  • No evidence for spring re-introduction of an arbovirus by cliff swallows
  • Phylogeographical structure and evolutionary history of two Buggy Creek virus lineages in the western Great Plains of North America
  • Terrapene ornata (ornate box turtle) predation on cliff swallows​
  • Host and vector movement affects genetic diversity and spatial structure of Buggy Creek virus (Togaviridae)
  • ​Experimental inoculation of house sparrows (Passer domesticus) with Buggy Creek virus

2007
  • Bird movement predicts Buggy Creek virus infection in insect vectors
  • Ecological correlates of Buggy Creek virus infection in Oeciacus vicarius, southwestern Nebraska, 2004​

2006
  • Feather mites are positively associated with daily survival in cliff swallows
  • Phylogenetic analysis of Buggy Creek virus: evidence for multiple clades in the western Great Plains, United States of America
  • Glucocorticoid hormone levels increase with group size and parasite load in cliff swallows

2005
  • Steroid hormone levels are related to choice of colony size in cliff swallows
  • Between-group transmission dynamics of the swallow bug, Oeciacus vicarius
  • Effects of endogenous steroid hormone levels on annual survival in cliff swallows​
  • Colony size, reproductive success, and colony choice in Cave Swallows Petrochelidon fulva
  • Testosterone and group size in cliff swallows: testing the “challenge hypothesis” in a colonial bird

2004
  • Mark-recapture and behavioral ecology: a case study of cliff swallows
  • Group size and ectoparasitism affect daily survival probability in a colonial bird
  • Empirical measurement of parasite transmission between groups in a colonial bird
  • Brood parasitism and egg transfer in cave swallows (Petrochelidon fulva) and cliff swallows (P. pyrrhonota) in south Texas​

2003
  • Testis size increases with colony size in cliff swallows

2002
  • Ectoparasites cause increased bilateral asymmetry of naturally selected traits in a colonial bird
  • Spleen volume varies with colony size and parasite load in a colonial bird
  • Colony choice in cliff swallows: effects of heterogeneity in foraging habitat
  • Does intercolony competition for food affect colony choice in cliff swallows?
  • Mosquito abundance is correlated with cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) colony size

2001
  • Arbovirus infection increases with group size
  • Immune defense and host sociality: a comparative study of swallows and martins​
  • Avian coloniality: progress and problems​
  • Egg hatchability increases with colony size in cliff swallows

2000
  • Heritable basis for choice of group size in a colonial bird
  • Evaluation of selection on cliff swallows
  • Breeding habitat selection in cliff swallows: the effect of conspecific reproductive success on colony choice
  • Weather-mediated natural selection on arrival time in cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)
  • Nest spacing in relation to settlement time in colonial cliff swallows

1999
  • Fitness components associated with laying date in the cliff swallow​
  • Costs of coloniality and the effect of colony size on reproductive success in purple martins
  • Fitness components associated with clutch size in cliff swallows
  • Seventeen summers of swallows
  • Natural selection on tail and bill morphology in barn swallows Hirundo rustica during severe weather
  • The evolution of coloniality: the importance of colony size
  • Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) from Birds of North America

1998
  • Swallow Summer
  • Intense natural selection on body size and wing and tail asymmetry in cliff swallows during severe weather
  • Fitness components associated with alternative reproductive tactics in cliff swallows

1996
  • Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow: The Effect of Group Size on Social Behavior
  • Birds of the Cedar Point Biological Station area, Keith and Garden counties, Nebraska

1995
  • Ectoparasites reduce long-term survival of their avian host
  • Colony choice in birds: models based on temporally invariant site quality
  • Cliff swallow (Hirundo pyrrhonota) from Birds of North America

1992
  • Ectoparasitism as a cause of natal dispersal in cliff swallows
  • Nest placement relative to food and its influence on the evolution of avian coloniality
  • First record of the cave swallow for Nebraska

1991
  • Food-sharing signals among socially foraging cliff swallows
  • Selection of high-quality host nests by parasitic cliff swallows

1990
  • Choice of colony size in birds
  • The great egg scramble​

1989
  • Behavioural dynamics of intraspecific brood parasitism in colonial cliff swallows
  • Variation in the appearance of swallow eggs and the detection of intraspecific brood parasitism

1988
  • A new form of reproductive parasitism in cliff swallows
  • The costs and benefits of egg destruction by conspecifics in colonial cliff swallows
  • Genetic evidence of multiple parentage in broods of cliff swallows
  • Enhanced foraging efficiency through information centers: a benefit of coloniality in cliff swallows​
  • Social foraging in cliff swallows: local enhancement, risk sensitivity, competition, and the avoidance of predators​

1987
  • Group-living in cliff swallows as an advantage in avoiding predators

1986
  • Cliff swallow colonies as information centers
  • Ectoparasitism as a cost of coloniality in cliff swallows (Hirundo pyrrhonota)
  • Risk in mobbing for solitary and colonial swallows
  • Parasites and their effects on colonies of cliff swallows​
  • ​How many swallows make a summer?

1985
  • Vocalizations of barn and cliff swallows

1984
  • Laying eggs in a neighbor's nest: benefit and cost of colonial nesting in swallows

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