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- Smaller brained cliff swallows are more likely to die during harsh weather
- 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 North America 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)
- Cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) from Birds of North America online
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
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
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
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
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