A Red Bird in a Brown Bag: The Function and Evolution of Colorful Plumage in the House Finch

By G. E. Hill. 2002

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Effect of handling time and repeated sampling on avian white blood cell counts (2005, background): “Trapping the finches involved either mist nets set up next to bird feeders or metal walk-in cage traps (Hill 2002).”
Assessing the function of house sparrows' bib size using a flexible meta-analysis method (2007, background): “Among the countless phenotypic variations investigated, avian plumage variation both within and between species appears to have attracted a disproportionate amount of research ( Hill 2002; Owens 2006).”
Achromatic plumage reflectance predicts reproductive success in male black-capped chickadees (2005, background): “…finding that plumage color correlated with various aspects of male quality, including parasite load (e.g., Doucet and Montgomerie, 2003b), viability (e.g., Sheldon et al., 1999), territory quality (e.g., Keyser and Hill, 2000), and parental effort (e.g., Siefferman and Hill, 2003; Hill, 2002).”
Female choice for song characteristics in the house finch (2004, methodology): “For example, older male house finches, which sing the nonpreferred short songs and provide less food, also begin nesting earlier in the season ( Hill 2002 ) and thereby fledge more chicks than males nesting later (McGraw et al. 2001).”
The antioxidant function of many animal pigments: are there consistent health benefits of sexually selected colourants? (2005, background): “By developing flashy pigmentary colours, animals may signal to rivals and suitors their ability to complete difficult environmental and physiological challenges to obtain pigments (e.g. Hill 1996, 2002) and to improve their health by doing so.”
Mutual ornamentation, age and reproductive performance in the European starling (2005, background): “The costs of developing and maintaining carotenoid-based coloration are well researched (e.g., Hill, 2002; Olson and Owens, 1998), but structural colors have received little attention.”
UV-blue structural coloration and competition for nestboxes in male eastern bluebirds (2005, unknown): “Pigment-based bird plumages are the best studied class of feather coloration and have been shown in many species to play an important role in conspeciﬁc interactions (Andersson 1994; Hill 2002).”
The Adaptive Significance of Coloration in Mammals (2005, background): “This has become standard practice in avian studies (Hill 2002), but it is rarely used for mammals (but see Sumner and Mollon 2003).”
Dietary carotenoid pigments and immune function in a songbird with extensive carotenoid-based plumage coloration (2003, background): “Carotenoid-based integumentary coloration has been found to be an important criterion in female choice for a number of species of birds and fish (Hill, 1999), and a primary benefit of choosing brightly colored males is likely information about the foraging ability, nutritional condition, and parasit”
BIRD ODORS AND OTHER CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES: A DEFENSE MECHANISM OR OVERLOOKED MODE OF INTRASPECIFIC COMMUNICATION? (2007, background): “Given the diet-dependency of chemical protection in pitohuis (Dumbacher et al. 2004), chemical ornaments could operate in a manner similar to carotenoid-based plumage traits (e.g., Hill 2002).”
Carotenoid accumulation strategies for becoming a colourful House Finch: analyses of plasma and liver pigments in wild moulting birds (2006, background): “Hill (2000, 2002) speculated that it was the ability of birds to accumulate the precursors of red pigments in feathers – candidate molecules such as β-cryptoxanthin (based on purported chemical transformations) – that controls, at the pigment level, whether birds could acquire red plumage or not…”
Achromatic color variation in black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapilla: black and white signals of sex and rank (2003, background): “Hill 1991, 2002 ), while female common yellowthroats (Geothlypis frichas) prefer males with the largest facial masks (Thusius et al. 2001).”
Structural and melanin coloration indicate parental effort and reproductive success in male eastern bluebirds (2003, background): “For instance, carotenoid-based colors have been shown in several species to act as honest signals to females of male quality ( Hill, 2002 ), and eumelanin pigments often signal social dominance (see review by Senar, 1999).”
Mouth coloration of nestlings covaries with offspring quality and influences parental feeding behavior (2007, background): “…use in other physiological processes like immunity and antioxidant activity support their function as Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article-abstract/18/3/526/221699 by guest on 28 July 2018 honest signals of individual quality (Olson and Owens 1998; Møller et al. 2000; Hill 2002).”
Epigenetics for behavioral ecologists (2013, background): “A similar, recent invasion has occurred in the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus), whose ancestral range prior to 1850 was confined to the west coast of North America (Hill 2002).”
Dominance and plumage traits: meta-analysis and metaregression analysis (2011, methodology): “Additionally, we performed a forward search from Hill & McGraw (2006), looking for articles that cited it.”
CAROTENOID PIGMENTS IN MALE HOUSE FINCH PLUMAGE IN RELATION TO AGE, SUBSPECIES, AND ORNAMENTAL COLORATION (2001, background): “It has been proposed that male plumage brightness is an honest signal of male condition, because carotenoids may be scarce resources in the environment and carotenoid-based color displays may be costly to produce (Hill 1994b, 1996a, 2002).”