Sexual Selection, Lek and Arena Behavior, and Sexual Size Dimorphism in Birds

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1982 • 3,696 citations

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1970 • 3,689 citations

Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila

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The Evolution of Sex

1978 • 3,074 citations

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1975 • 2,162 citations

An introduction to behavioural ecology

1981 • 1,761 citations

Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Insects

1979 • 1,671 citations

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1980 • 1,644 citations

Handbook of the Birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa; the Birds of the Western Palearctic

1978 • 1,230 citations

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1982 • 1,066 citations

Female choice selects for extreme tail length in a widowbird

1982 • 952 citations

Primate Ecology and Social Organization

1982 • 837 citations

Sexual Dimorphism, Sexual Selection, and Adaptation in Polygenic Characters

1980 • 726 citations

Intense Natural Selection in a Population of Darwin's Finches (Geospizinae) in the Galápagos

1981 • 587 citations

The Ecology and Behavior of the Prairie Warbler Dendroica discolor

1978 • 584 citations

Sexual Dimorphism in Mammals: Avian Models and Unanswered Questions

1977 • 577 citations

Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow

1965 • 543 citations

Advantages and Disadvantages of Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia) Coloniality

1976 • 527 citations

The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex /

1981 • 523 citations

Sexual selection, natural selection and quality advertisement

1982 • 501 citations

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1980 • 460 citations

Sexual dimorphisms and breeding systems in pinnipeds, ungulates, primates, and humans

1979 • 430 citations

Sneakers, Satellites and Parentals: Polymorphic Mating Strategies in North American Sunfishes

1982 • 415 citations

Population Studies on Red Grouse, Lagopus lagopus scoticus (Lath.) in North-East Scotland

1963 • 368 citations

Evolution of reversed sexual size dimorphism and role partitioning among predatory birds, with a size scaling of flight performance

1981 • 363 citations

AVIAN MATING SYSTEMS

1982 • 352 citations

Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology

1980 • 348 citations

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1978 • 344 citations

The Malay Archipelago

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1974 • 326 citations

Geographical Aspects of Bird-Flower Coevolution, with Particular Reference to Central America

1981 • 305 citations

Ecological Organization of a Tropical, Highland Hummingbird Community

1976 • 305 citations

Significance Tests for Coefficients of Variation and Variability Profiles

1980 • 293 citations

Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology

1981 • 285 citations

Delayed Maturation in Passerine Plumages and the Deceptive Acquisition of Resources

1980 • 270 citations

A test of three hypotheses for latitudinal segregation of the sexes in wintering birds

1981 • 252 citations

Sexual Size Dimorphism in Hawks and Owls of North America

1976 • 248 citations

Female mimicry in male bluegill sunfish—a genetic polymorphism?

1980 • 240 citations

Significance Tests for Coefficients of Variation and Variability Profiles

1980 • 240 citations

Territoriality and Non-Random Mating in Sage Grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus

1973 • 238 citations

Lek Mating Behavior in the Hammer‐headed Bat

1977 • 233 citations

Ecology and Evolution of Social Organization in Arctic Sandpipers

1974 • 221 citations

Sexual Behavior of the Lek‐forming White‐bearded Manakin (Manacus manacus trinitatis Hartert)

1974 • 214 citations

Ecological Consequences of Song Matching: Breeding Success and Intraspecific Song Mimicry in Indigo Buntings

1982 • 214 citations

Female Moorhens Compete for Small Fat Males

1983 • 201 citations

Numbers, Breeding Schedule, and Territoriality in Pectoral Sandpipers of Northern Alaska

1959 • 200 citations

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1980 • 200 citations

Heritability of Ecologically Important Traits in the Great Tit

2002 • 193 citations

Behavioural Dimorphism in Male Ruffs, Philomachus Pugnax (L.)

1973 • 193 citations

Birds of paradise and bower birds

1969 • 188 citations

A Distributional Survey of the Birds of Honduras

1968 • 188 citations

Sexual Dimorphism in Size of Vespertilionid Bats

1978 • 187 citations

The birds of the Republic of Panama

1965 • 178 citations

Mating Systems, Sexual Dimorphism, and the Role of Male North American Passerine Birds in the Nesting Cycle

1969 • 175 citations

Behavior, Mimetic Songs and Song Dialects, and Relationships of the Parasitic Indigobirds (Vidua) of Africa

1973 • 169 citations

Ecology and Evolution of Lek Mating Behavior in the Long-Tailed Hermit Hummingbird

1979 • 150 citations

Male Quality and Female Choice of Mate in the Red‐Winged Blackbird (Agelaius Phoeniceus)

1981 • 138 citations

Population Variation in Continuously Varying Traits as an Ecological Genetics Problem

1981 • 130 citations

The Evolution of Mating Systems in Grouse

1978 • 129 citations

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1979 • 127 citations

Food Supply and the Annual Cycle of the Anna Hummingbird

1975 • 126 citations

Cooperative behavior and social organization of the Swallow-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia caudata)

1981 • 123 citations

On the Relationship between Wing Disc Loading and Foraging Strategy in Hummingbirds

1975 • 122 citations

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1972 • 122 citations

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The birds of paradise and bower birds

1977 • 111 citations

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1970 • 110 citations

Aggressive and Courtship Displays of the Male Anna's Hummingbird

1982 • 109 citations

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1972 • 107 citations

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1982 • 106 citations

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1980 • 105 citations

The Behavior of Spotted Antbirds

1972 • 104 citations

Morphological Correlates of Dominance in Captive Male Red-Winged Blackbirds

1979 • 104 citations

Disruption, Dispersion, and Dominance in Lek-Breeding Birds

1983 • 102 citations

Polygyny in the Dickcissel

1966 • 101 citations

The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate

1938 • 101 citations

Cross-seasonal interactions in the evolution of sandpiper social systems

1981 • 100 citations

The social context of song mimicry: Song-matching dialects in indigo buntings (Passerina cyanea)

1983 • 99 citations

Breeding Biology of the Long-Billed Marsh Wren

1965 • 97 citations

Physiological Responses of the Blue-Throated and Rivoli's Hummingbirds

1967 • 96 citations

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1979 • 96 citations

The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate

1938 • 91 citations

The demography of two tribes of primitive, relatively unacculturated American Indians.

1968 • 90 citations

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1983 • 90 citations

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1980 • 88 citations

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1974 • 87 citations

Male Characteristics and Pairing Success in Red-Winged Blackbirds

1979 • 87 citations

SEX RATIO CONSTANCY IN THE RED‐WINGED BLACKBIRD

1981 • 86 citations

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1981 • 86 citations

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1980 • 83 citations

Reproductive behaviour in tetraonidae with special reference to males

1970 • 79 citations

Overwinter Mortality and Sexual Size Dimorphism in the House Sparrow

1981 • 77 citations

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1981 • 76 citations

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2002 • 75 citations

Sexual Selection and Intersexual Differences in Variance of Breeding Success

1979 • 74 citations

A revised list of birds of Barro Colorado Island, Panamá

1979 • 69 citations

Distorted Sex Ratio among Small Broods in a Declining Capercaillie Population

1980 • 63 citations

Song Groups in a Singing Assembly of Little Hermits

1971 • 62 citations

Song structure, behaviour, and sequence of song types in a population of village indigobirds, Vidua chalybeata

1979 • 61 citations

Functional Anatomy and Adaptive Evolution of the Feeding Apparatus in the Hawaiian Honeycreeper Genus Loxops (Drepanididae)

1973 • 61 citations

The Foraging Behavior of Mountain Bluebirds: With Emphasis on Sexual Foraging Differences

1980 • 61 citations

The Snipes: A Study of the Genus Capella

1973 • 60 citations

Roles of the wing whistle in the territorial behaviour of male broad-tailed hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus)

1983 • 58 citations

Facultative Sex-Ratio Manipulation

1982 • 57 citations

SEXUAL SELECTION FOR SIZE DIFFERENCES IN TWO SPECIES OF SANDPIPERS

1970 • 57 citations

LEK BEHAVIOUR AND BREEDING OF GUY'S HERMIT HUMMINGBIRD PHAETHORNIS GUY

1974 • 54 citations

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1977 • 50 citations

The Evolution of Bowerbirds

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1956 • 50 citations

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1976 • 50 citations

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1978 • 50 citations

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1966 • 49 citations

Extra-pair-bond courtship and forced copulation among captive green-winged teal (Anas crecca carolinensis)

1982 • 49 citations

Behaviour and evolution in the genusEuplectes

1980 • 48 citations

The Honey-guides

1955 • 48 citations

Bird Songs, Sexual Selection, and Female Mating Strategies**My research has been supported by National Science Foundation grants GB29017X, BMS75-03913, BNS78-03178, and BNS81-02404.

1983 • 48 citations

Spacing and distribution of bowers in Macgregor's Bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae)

1982 • 46 citations

Social behaviour of black grouse: An observational and experimental field study

1982 • 46 citations

The Red-Tailed Tropicbird on Kure Atoll

1974 • 44 citations

Sexual Selection and Body Size in Male Red-Winged Blackbirds

1979 • 44 citations

Social Behaviour of the Great Snipe Capella media at the Arena Display

1978 • 41 citations

Does High Fecundity Reduce Survival in Song Sparrows?

1981 • 40 citations

Rediscovery of the Yellow-Fronted Gardener Bowerbird

1982 • 40 citations

The Cichlid Fish of Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico: Direct Evidence of Conspecificity Among Distinct Trophic Morphs

1982 • 39 citations

The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon.

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Goldie's Bird of Paradise: Display, Natural History and Traditional Relationships of People to the Bird

1980 • 38 citations

Age and Sex Determination in Rufous and Allen Hummingbirds

1972 • 38 citations

Intra-Island Variation in the Mascarene White-Eye Zosterops borbonica

1973 • 37 citations

Experimental Confirmation of Heritable Morphological Variation in a Natural Population of Song Sparrows

1980 • 35 citations

The Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Gamebirds, Waterfowl and Raptors

1981 • 35 citations

Species limits in the indigobirds (Ploceidae, Vidua) of West Africa: mouth mimicry, song mimicry, and description of new species

1982 • 34 citations

THE SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE DUNNOCK PRUNELLA MODULARIS

1981 • 34 citations

Mating System and Reproductive Biology of Malachite Sunbirds

1976 • 32 citations

Adaptedness of Arena Behaviour in Black Grouse (Tetrao Tetrix) and Other Grouse Species (Tetraoninae)

1979 • 31 citations

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RODING BY WOODCOCK SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA: AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION BASED ON OBSERVATIONS OF MARKED BIRDS

1980 • 30 citations

Distribution of Bowers of the Satin Bowerbird at Leura, NSW, with Notes on Parental Care, Development and Independence of the Young

1980 • 30 citations

Sex Ratio Constancy in the Red-Winged Blackbird

1981 • 30 citations

Sexual Selection for Size Differences in Two Species of Sandpipers

1970 • 29 citations

Sexual selection and the mating system of Argusianus argus (Aves: Phasianidae)

1981 • 29 citations

Studies of the Acadian Flycatcher in Michigan

1966 • 28 citations

On Behavior and Nesting of McConnell's Flycatcher (Pipromorpha macconnelli): Does Female Rejection Lead to Male Promiscuity?

1978 • 28 citations

Die Balz der Schmuckvögel(Pipridae)

1959 • 27 citations

Moults of the Satin BowerbirdPtilonorhynchus Violaceus

1980 • 26 citations

Ecologic Overlap of Allen and Anna Hummingbirds Nesting at Santa Cruz, California

1956 • 25 citations

NESTING OF THE PURPLE‐THROATED CARIB HUMMINGBIRD

1971 • 25 citations

Hermon Bumpus and Natural Selection in the House Sparrow Passer domesticus

1972 • 24 citations

The Social Life of the African Forest Yellow-Whiskered Greenbul Andropadus latirostris

2010 • 23 citations

Weights and wing-lengths of some Trinidad birds

1963 • 23 citations

POLYGYNY AND BREEDING ECOLOGY OF THE CETTI'S WARBLER CETTIA CETTI

1982 • 23 citations

Maintenance Behavior and Communication in the Brown Pelican

1977 • 23 citations

The classification of the Cotingidae (Aves)

1973 • 21 citations

DIET AND DISPERSION OF THE GREAT ARGUS ARGUSIANUS ARGUS

1981 • 20 citations

Influence of changing grouse density and forest attributes on the occupancy of a series of potential territories by male ruffed grouse

1976 • 19 citations

Polygyny Among Superb Lyrebirds in Sherbrooke Forest Park, Kallista, Victoria

1972 • 18 citations

Recent Literature

1983 • 18 citations

Differential Survival in Common Grackles Sprayed with Turgitol

1978 • 16 citations

A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM BAROTSELAND AND BECHUANALAND

1965 • 16 citations

COMPARISON OF THE LEKS OF GUY'S HERMIT HUMMINGBIRD PHAETHORNIS GUY IN COSTA RICA AND TRINIDAD

1977 • 15 citations

ON THREE SPECIES OF HONEY-GUIDE; THE GREATER; (Indicator indicator) THE LESSER (Indicator minor) AND THE SCALY-THROATED (Indicator variegatus)

1955 • 12 citations

Notes on a Display and Nest of the Club-Winged Manakin

1966 • 12 citations

Communal Display in Humming‐birds

1931 • 12 citations

The Lekking Behaviour of Great Snipe

1982 • 11 citations

Size and Mortality in Male Yellow-Headed Blackbirds

1979 • 11 citations

Duetting and other synchronised displays of the blue-backed manakins, Chiroxiphia Spp

1977 • 9 citations

A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM BAROTSELAND AND BECHUANALAND

1965 • 9 citations

The Birds of Tropical West Africa

1952 • 9 citations

Notes on the Behavior of the Costa Rican Sharpbill (Oxyruncus cristatus frater)

1983 • 6 citations

On a Case of a Male Ruff (Philomachus pugnax) in the Plumage of an Adult Female

1937 • 3 citations

Plumage Characteristics of Juvenile Black-Chinned Hummingbirds

1983 • 2 citations