Although the migration ecology of birds breeding in the Neotropics is still poorly studied
relative to that of their counterparts breeding at north-temperate latitudes, studies conducted …

Molt is an important avian life history event in which feathers are shed and replaced. The
timing, duration, seasonality, extent and pattern of molt follows certain strategies and this …

Accurately differentiating age classes is essential for the long‐term monitoring of resident
New World tropical bird species. Molt and plumage criteria have long been used to …

The energetically challenging periods of molting and breeding are usually temporally
separated in temperate birds, but can occur simultaneously in tropical birds, a condition …

Birds with delayed plumage maturation exhibit a drab predefinitive plumage, often despite
gonad maturation, before develo** the definitive plumage associated with increased …

ABSTRACT Wolfe et al.(2010. Journal of Field Ornithology 81: 186–194) proposed a coding
system for ageing birds based on the sequence of molts and plumages, which is more …

The black-throated trogon, Trogon rufus, is a widespread, polytypic species-complex with a
convoluted taxonomic history. Here, we integrated morphological, vocal and genetic …

Detailed accounts of molt and breeding cycles remain elusive for the majority of resident
tropical bird species. We used data derived from a museum review and 12 years of banding …

The life histories of all birds feature two major events, reproduction and molt, and many
species of the temperate and polar zones add migration as a third major energetic and …

An understanding of feather moult, an important process in the life cycle of birds, lags behind
that of other avian life‐history events. This lag includes a lack of scientific attention, but …