Photo: Dr. Hauber inspecting a cuckoo chick.
Peer-reviewed Research Publications:
For a most up to date list, please visit my Google Scholar page.
Research Highlights:
Merondun J, Marques CI, Andrade P, Meshcheryagina S, Galvan I, Afonso S, Alves JM, Araujo PM, Bachurin G, Balacco J, Ban M, Fedrigo O, Formenti G, Fossoy F, Fulop A, Golovatin M, Granja S, Hewson C, Honza M, Howe K, Larson G, Marton A, Moskat C, Mountcastle J, Prochazka P, Redkin Y, Sims Y, Sulc M, Tracey A, Wood JMD, Jarvis ED, Hauber ME, Carneiro M, Wolf JBW (2024) Evolution and genetic architecture of sex-limited polymorphism in cuckoos. Science Advances 10: eadl5255.
Hauber ME, Nagy J, Sheard C, Antonson ND, Street SE, Healy SD, Lala KN, Mainwaring MC (2024) Nest architecture influences host use by avian brood parasites and is shaped by coevolutionary dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 291: 20231734.
Dominguez JS, Rakovic M, Li D, Pollock HS, Lawson S, Novcic I, Su X, Zeng Q, Al-Dhufari R, Johnson-Cadle, Boldrick J, Chamberlain M, Hauber ME (2023) What’s the rumpus? Resident temperate forest birds approach an unfamiliar neotropical alarm call across three continents. Biology Letters 19: 20230332.
Choi S, Hauber ME, Legendre LJ, Kim N-H, Lee Y-N, Varricchio DJ (2023) Microstructural and crystallographic evolution of palaeognath (Aves) eggshells. eLife 11: e81092.
Williams HJ, Sridhar VH, Hurme E, Gall GEC, Borrego N, Finerty GE, Couzin I, Galizia CG, Dominy NJ, Rowland HM, Hauber ME, Higham JP, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Melin AD (2023) Sensory collectives in natural systems. eLife 12: e88028.
Antonson ND, Schelsky WM, Tolman D, Kilner RM, Hauber ME (2022). Niche construction through a Goldilocks principle maximizes fitness for a nest-sharing brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 289: 20221223. Highlighted by Faculty Opinions and Forbes Magazine.B 289: 20221223
Kennerley JA, Somveille M, Hauber ME, Richardson NM, Manica A, Feeney WE (2022) The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite-host relationships. Ecology Letters 25: 1889-1904.
McClelland SC, Reynolds M, Cordall M, Hauber ME, Goymann W, McClean LA, Hamama S, Lund J, Dixit T, Louder MIM, Safari I, Honza M, Spottiswoode CN, Portugal SJ (2021) Embryo movement is more frequent in obligate avian brood parasites than birds with parental reproductive strategies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288: 20211137. Highlighted in the Atlantic.
Antonson ND, Rivera M, Abolins-Abols M, Kleindorfer S, Liu W-C, Hauber ME (2021) Early acoustic experience alters genome-wide methylation in the auditory forebrain of songbird embryos. Neuroscience Letters 755: 135917.
Pollock HS, Hoover JP, Uy FMK, Hauber ME (2021) Brood parasites are a heterogeneous and functionally distinct class of natural enemies. Trends in Parasitology 37: 588-596.
Martin LB, Hanson HE, Hauber ME, Ghalambor CK (2021) Genes, environments, and phenotypic plasticity in immunology. Trends in Immunology 42: 198-208.
Hauber ME, Winnicki SK, Hoover JP, Hanley D, Hays IR (2021) The limits of egg recognition: Testing acceptance thresholds of American robins in response to decreasingly egg-shaped objects in the nest. Royal Society Open Science 8: 201615. Highlighted in the NY Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Feng S et al. (2020) Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature 287: 252-257. Covered by the BBC.
Antonson ND, Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME, Botero CA (2020) Ecological uncertainty favours the diversification of host use in avian brood parasites. Nature Communications 11: 4185. Covered by Massive Science and the Audubon Magazine.
Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2020) Endocrine regulation of egg rejection in an avian brood parasite host. Biology Letters 16: 20200225.
Scharf HM, Suarez AV, Reeve HK, Hauber ME (2020). The evolution of conspecific acceptance threshold models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 375: 20190475. Theme issue ‘Signal detection theory in recognition systems: from evolving models to experimental tests’, compiled and edited by Hauber et al.
Lawson SL, Enos JK, Mendes NC, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2020) Heterospecific eavesdropping on an anti-parasitic referential alarm call. Communications Biology 3: 143. Covered by the Wildlife Society and the Audubon Society.
Louder MIM, Lafayette M, Louder AA, Uy FMK, Balakrishnan CN, Yasukawa K, Hauber ME (2020) Shared transcriptional responses to con- and heterospecific behavioral antagonists in a wild songbird. Scientific Reports 10: 4092. Highlighted by the Wildlife Society.
Louder MIM, Balakrishnan CN, Louder ANA, Driver RJ, London SE, Hauber ME (2019) An acoustic password enhances auditory learning in juvenile brood parasitic cowbirds. Current Biology 29 (online). Covered by ABC News.
Hauber ME, Bond AL, Kouwenberg A-L, Robertson GJ, Hansen EJ, Holford M, Dainson M, Luro A, Dale J (2019) The chemical basis of a signal of individual identity: shell pigment concentrations track the unique appearance of Common Murre eggs. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16: 20190115. Covered by Hakai Magazine.
Hanley D, Lopez AV, Fiorini VD, Reboreda JC, Grim T, Hauber ME (2019) Variation in multicomponent recognition cues alters egg rejection decisions: a test of the optimal acceptance threshold hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 374: 20180195.
Rivera M, Cealie M, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer S, Liu W (2019) Neural activation in response to conspecific songs in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) embryos and nestlings. NeuroReport 30:217–221. Covered in IFLScience!
Scharf HM, Stenstrom K, Dainson M, Benson TJ, Fernandez-Juricic E, Hauber ME (2019) Mimicry-dependent lateralization in the visual inspection of foreign eggs by American robins. Biology Letters 15: 20190351. Highlighted in TechExplorist.
Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2018) Host defenses against avian brood parasitism: an endocrine perspective. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20180980.
Cuthill I, Allen W, Arbuckle K, Caspers B, Chaplin G, Hauber ME, Hill GE, Jablonski N, Jiggins C, Kelber A, Mappes J, Marshall J, Merrill R, Osorio D, Prum R, Roberts N, Roulin A, Rowland H, Sherratt T, Skelhorn J, Speed M, Stevens M, Stoddard MC, Stuart-Fox D, Talas L, Tibbetts E, Caro (2017) The Biology of Color. Science 357: 470 (eaan0221)
Stoddard MC, Hauber ME (2017) Colour, vision, and coevolution in avian brood parasitism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 372: 20160339.
Hanley D, Grim T, Igic B, Samas P, Lopez AV, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2017) Egg discrimination along a gradient of natural variation in eggshell coloration. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 284: 20162592.
Mendelson TC, Fitzpatrick CL, Hauber ME, Pence CH, Rodgriguez RL, Safran RJ, Stern CA, Stevens JR (2016) Cognitive phenotypes and the evolution of animal decisions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 850–859.
d’Alba L, Rafael M, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2016) The evolution of eggshell cuticle in relation to nesting ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20160687.
Louder MIM, Voss HU, Manna TJ, Carryl SS, London SE, Balakrishnan CN, Hauber ME (2016) Shared neural substrates for song discrimination in parental and parasitic songbirds. Neuroscience Letters 622: 49-54.
Hebets EA, Barron AB, Balakrishnan C, Hauber ME, Mason P, Hoke K (2016) A systems approach to animal signaling. Proceeding of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20152889.
Hanley D, Grim T, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2015) Not so colourful after all: eggshell pigments constrain avian eggshell colour space. Biology Letters 11: 20150087. Read about it in Audubon Magazine.
Igic B, Fecheyr-Lippens D, Xiao M, Chan A, Hanley D, Brennan PR, Grim T, Waterhouse GI, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2015) A nanostructural basis for gloss of avian eggshells. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12: 20141210. Read about it in the NY Times.
Barron AB, Hebets EA, Cleland TA, Fitzpatrick CL, Hauber ME, Stevens J (2015) Embracing multiple definitions of learning. Trends in Neurosciences 38: 405-407.
Hauber ME (2014) The Book of Eggs. University of Chicago Press. Read about it in The Guardian.
Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer SM (2014) Prenatal learning in an Australian songbird: habituation and individual discrimination in superb fairy-wren embryos. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20141154. Read about it in Science and the Smithsonian Magazine.
Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Robertson J, Sulloway FJ, Hoi H, Griggio M, Evans C, Kleindorfer S (2012) Embryonic learning of vocal passwords in superb fairy-wrens reveals intruder cuckoo nestlings. Current Biology 22: 2155-2160. Read about it in the NY Times . Highlighted as a top-10 research discovery by ABC.
Igic B, Cassey P, Grim T, Greenwood DR, Moskat C, Rutila J, Hauber ME (2012) A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 1068-1076.
Machovsky Capuska GE, Howland HC, Raubenheimer D, Vaugh R, Wursig B, Hauber ME, Katzir G (2012) Visual accommodation and active pursuit of prey underwater in a plunge diving bird: the Australasian gannet. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 4118-4125. Read about it in Current Biology.
Cassey P, Thomas GH, Portugal SJ, Maurer G, Hauber ME, Grim T, Lovell PG, Miksik I (2012) Why are birds’ eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments covary with life history and nesting ecology among British birds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 657-672.
Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Steeves TE, Lawrence HA, Thompson DR, Sagar PM, Bury SJ, Landers TJ, Phillips RA, Ranjard L, Shaffer SA (2011) Contemporary and historical separation of transequatorial migration between genetically distinct seabird populations. Nature Communications 2: 232. Featured on Radio New Zealand.
Igic B, Braganza K, Hyland MM, Silyn-Roberts H, Cassey P, Grim T, Rutila J, Moskat C, Hauber ME (2011) Alternative mechanisms of increased eggshell hardness of avian brood parasites relative to host species. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8: 1654-1664.
Hubbard JK, Uy AC, Hauber ME, Hoekstra HE, Safran RJ (2010) Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function. Trends in Genetics 26: 231-239.
Sorenson MD, Hauber ME, Derrickson SR (2010) Sexual imprinting misguides species recognition in a facultative interspecific brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 277: 3079-3085.
Steeves TE, Holdaway RN, Hale ML, McLay E, McAllan IAW, Christian M, Hauber ME, Bunce M (2010) Merging ancient and modern DNA: extinct seabird taxon rediscovered in the North Tasman Sea. Biology Letters 6: 94-97.
Anderson MG, Ross HA, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2009) Begging call matching between a specialist brood parasite and its host: a comparative approach to detect co-evolution. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98: 208-216.
Cassey P, Honza M, Grim T, Hauber ME (2008) The modeling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours. Biology Letters 4: 515-517. Read about it in Current Biology.
Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME (2008) Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 655-658.
Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Imber MJ, Stamp RK, Clout MN (2007) Spatial heterogeneity of mesopredator release within an oceanic island system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 20862-20865. Read about it the NY Times.
Hauber ME, Moskat C, Ban M (2006) Experimental shift in hosts' acceptance threshold of inaccurate-mimic brood parasite eggs. Biology Letters 2: 177-180.
Shawkey MD, Hauber ME, Estep LK, Hill GE (2006) Evolutionary transitions and mechanisms of matte and iridescent plumage coloration in grackles and allies (Icteridae). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 3: 777-786.
Kilner RM, Madden JR, Hauber ME (2004) Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources. Science 305: 877-879. Read about it in the NY Times and listen about it on NPR.
Hauber ME, Yeh PJ, Roberts JOL (2004) Patterns and coevolutionary consequences of repeated brood parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: S317-S320.
Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2001) Self-referent phenotype matching: theoretical possibilities and empirical tests. Trends in Neurosciences 24: 609-616.
Hauber ME, Russo SA, Sherman PW (2001) A password for species recognition in a brood parasitic bird.Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 1041-1048. Read about it National Geographic.
Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2000) The armpit effect in hamster kin recognition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 349-350.
For a most up to date list, please visit my Google Scholar page.
Research Highlights:
Merondun J, Marques CI, Andrade P, Meshcheryagina S, Galvan I, Afonso S, Alves JM, Araujo PM, Bachurin G, Balacco J, Ban M, Fedrigo O, Formenti G, Fossoy F, Fulop A, Golovatin M, Granja S, Hewson C, Honza M, Howe K, Larson G, Marton A, Moskat C, Mountcastle J, Prochazka P, Redkin Y, Sims Y, Sulc M, Tracey A, Wood JMD, Jarvis ED, Hauber ME, Carneiro M, Wolf JBW (2024) Evolution and genetic architecture of sex-limited polymorphism in cuckoos. Science Advances 10: eadl5255.
Hauber ME, Nagy J, Sheard C, Antonson ND, Street SE, Healy SD, Lala KN, Mainwaring MC (2024) Nest architecture influences host use by avian brood parasites and is shaped by coevolutionary dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 291: 20231734.
Dominguez JS, Rakovic M, Li D, Pollock HS, Lawson S, Novcic I, Su X, Zeng Q, Al-Dhufari R, Johnson-Cadle, Boldrick J, Chamberlain M, Hauber ME (2023) What’s the rumpus? Resident temperate forest birds approach an unfamiliar neotropical alarm call across three continents. Biology Letters 19: 20230332.
Choi S, Hauber ME, Legendre LJ, Kim N-H, Lee Y-N, Varricchio DJ (2023) Microstructural and crystallographic evolution of palaeognath (Aves) eggshells. eLife 11: e81092.
Williams HJ, Sridhar VH, Hurme E, Gall GEC, Borrego N, Finerty GE, Couzin I, Galizia CG, Dominy NJ, Rowland HM, Hauber ME, Higham JP, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Melin AD (2023) Sensory collectives in natural systems. eLife 12: e88028.
Antonson ND, Schelsky WM, Tolman D, Kilner RM, Hauber ME (2022). Niche construction through a Goldilocks principle maximizes fitness for a nest-sharing brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 289: 20221223. Highlighted by Faculty Opinions and Forbes Magazine.B 289: 20221223
Kennerley JA, Somveille M, Hauber ME, Richardson NM, Manica A, Feeney WE (2022) The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite-host relationships. Ecology Letters 25: 1889-1904.
McClelland SC, Reynolds M, Cordall M, Hauber ME, Goymann W, McClean LA, Hamama S, Lund J, Dixit T, Louder MIM, Safari I, Honza M, Spottiswoode CN, Portugal SJ (2021) Embryo movement is more frequent in obligate avian brood parasites than birds with parental reproductive strategies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288: 20211137. Highlighted in the Atlantic.
Antonson ND, Rivera M, Abolins-Abols M, Kleindorfer S, Liu W-C, Hauber ME (2021) Early acoustic experience alters genome-wide methylation in the auditory forebrain of songbird embryos. Neuroscience Letters 755: 135917.
Pollock HS, Hoover JP, Uy FMK, Hauber ME (2021) Brood parasites are a heterogeneous and functionally distinct class of natural enemies. Trends in Parasitology 37: 588-596.
Martin LB, Hanson HE, Hauber ME, Ghalambor CK (2021) Genes, environments, and phenotypic plasticity in immunology. Trends in Immunology 42: 198-208.
Hauber ME, Winnicki SK, Hoover JP, Hanley D, Hays IR (2021) The limits of egg recognition: Testing acceptance thresholds of American robins in response to decreasingly egg-shaped objects in the nest. Royal Society Open Science 8: 201615. Highlighted in the NY Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Feng S et al. (2020) Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature 287: 252-257. Covered by the BBC.
Antonson ND, Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME, Botero CA (2020) Ecological uncertainty favours the diversification of host use in avian brood parasites. Nature Communications 11: 4185. Covered by Massive Science and the Audubon Magazine.
Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2020) Endocrine regulation of egg rejection in an avian brood parasite host. Biology Letters 16: 20200225.
Scharf HM, Suarez AV, Reeve HK, Hauber ME (2020). The evolution of conspecific acceptance threshold models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 375: 20190475. Theme issue ‘Signal detection theory in recognition systems: from evolving models to experimental tests’, compiled and edited by Hauber et al.
Lawson SL, Enos JK, Mendes NC, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2020) Heterospecific eavesdropping on an anti-parasitic referential alarm call. Communications Biology 3: 143. Covered by the Wildlife Society and the Audubon Society.
Louder MIM, Lafayette M, Louder AA, Uy FMK, Balakrishnan CN, Yasukawa K, Hauber ME (2020) Shared transcriptional responses to con- and heterospecific behavioral antagonists in a wild songbird. Scientific Reports 10: 4092. Highlighted by the Wildlife Society.
Louder MIM, Balakrishnan CN, Louder ANA, Driver RJ, London SE, Hauber ME (2019) An acoustic password enhances auditory learning in juvenile brood parasitic cowbirds. Current Biology 29 (online). Covered by ABC News.
Hauber ME, Bond AL, Kouwenberg A-L, Robertson GJ, Hansen EJ, Holford M, Dainson M, Luro A, Dale J (2019) The chemical basis of a signal of individual identity: shell pigment concentrations track the unique appearance of Common Murre eggs. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16: 20190115. Covered by Hakai Magazine.
Hanley D, Lopez AV, Fiorini VD, Reboreda JC, Grim T, Hauber ME (2019) Variation in multicomponent recognition cues alters egg rejection decisions: a test of the optimal acceptance threshold hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 374: 20180195.
Rivera M, Cealie M, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer S, Liu W (2019) Neural activation in response to conspecific songs in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) embryos and nestlings. NeuroReport 30:217–221. Covered in IFLScience!
Scharf HM, Stenstrom K, Dainson M, Benson TJ, Fernandez-Juricic E, Hauber ME (2019) Mimicry-dependent lateralization in the visual inspection of foreign eggs by American robins. Biology Letters 15: 20190351. Highlighted in TechExplorist.
Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2018) Host defenses against avian brood parasitism: an endocrine perspective. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20180980.
Cuthill I, Allen W, Arbuckle K, Caspers B, Chaplin G, Hauber ME, Hill GE, Jablonski N, Jiggins C, Kelber A, Mappes J, Marshall J, Merrill R, Osorio D, Prum R, Roberts N, Roulin A, Rowland H, Sherratt T, Skelhorn J, Speed M, Stevens M, Stoddard MC, Stuart-Fox D, Talas L, Tibbetts E, Caro (2017) The Biology of Color. Science 357: 470 (eaan0221)
Stoddard MC, Hauber ME (2017) Colour, vision, and coevolution in avian brood parasitism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 372: 20160339.
Hanley D, Grim T, Igic B, Samas P, Lopez AV, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2017) Egg discrimination along a gradient of natural variation in eggshell coloration. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 284: 20162592.
Mendelson TC, Fitzpatrick CL, Hauber ME, Pence CH, Rodgriguez RL, Safran RJ, Stern CA, Stevens JR (2016) Cognitive phenotypes and the evolution of animal decisions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 850–859.
d’Alba L, Rafael M, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2016) The evolution of eggshell cuticle in relation to nesting ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20160687.
Louder MIM, Voss HU, Manna TJ, Carryl SS, London SE, Balakrishnan CN, Hauber ME (2016) Shared neural substrates for song discrimination in parental and parasitic songbirds. Neuroscience Letters 622: 49-54.
Hebets EA, Barron AB, Balakrishnan C, Hauber ME, Mason P, Hoke K (2016) A systems approach to animal signaling. Proceeding of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20152889.
Hanley D, Grim T, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2015) Not so colourful after all: eggshell pigments constrain avian eggshell colour space. Biology Letters 11: 20150087. Read about it in Audubon Magazine.
Igic B, Fecheyr-Lippens D, Xiao M, Chan A, Hanley D, Brennan PR, Grim T, Waterhouse GI, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2015) A nanostructural basis for gloss of avian eggshells. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12: 20141210. Read about it in the NY Times.
Barron AB, Hebets EA, Cleland TA, Fitzpatrick CL, Hauber ME, Stevens J (2015) Embracing multiple definitions of learning. Trends in Neurosciences 38: 405-407.
Hauber ME (2014) The Book of Eggs. University of Chicago Press. Read about it in The Guardian.
Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer SM (2014) Prenatal learning in an Australian songbird: habituation and individual discrimination in superb fairy-wren embryos. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20141154. Read about it in Science and the Smithsonian Magazine.
Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Robertson J, Sulloway FJ, Hoi H, Griggio M, Evans C, Kleindorfer S (2012) Embryonic learning of vocal passwords in superb fairy-wrens reveals intruder cuckoo nestlings. Current Biology 22: 2155-2160. Read about it in the NY Times . Highlighted as a top-10 research discovery by ABC.
Igic B, Cassey P, Grim T, Greenwood DR, Moskat C, Rutila J, Hauber ME (2012) A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 1068-1076.
Machovsky Capuska GE, Howland HC, Raubenheimer D, Vaugh R, Wursig B, Hauber ME, Katzir G (2012) Visual accommodation and active pursuit of prey underwater in a plunge diving bird: the Australasian gannet. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 4118-4125. Read about it in Current Biology.
Cassey P, Thomas GH, Portugal SJ, Maurer G, Hauber ME, Grim T, Lovell PG, Miksik I (2012) Why are birds’ eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments covary with life history and nesting ecology among British birds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 657-672.
Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Steeves TE, Lawrence HA, Thompson DR, Sagar PM, Bury SJ, Landers TJ, Phillips RA, Ranjard L, Shaffer SA (2011) Contemporary and historical separation of transequatorial migration between genetically distinct seabird populations. Nature Communications 2: 232. Featured on Radio New Zealand.
Igic B, Braganza K, Hyland MM, Silyn-Roberts H, Cassey P, Grim T, Rutila J, Moskat C, Hauber ME (2011) Alternative mechanisms of increased eggshell hardness of avian brood parasites relative to host species. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8: 1654-1664.
Hubbard JK, Uy AC, Hauber ME, Hoekstra HE, Safran RJ (2010) Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function. Trends in Genetics 26: 231-239.
Sorenson MD, Hauber ME, Derrickson SR (2010) Sexual imprinting misguides species recognition in a facultative interspecific brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 277: 3079-3085.
Steeves TE, Holdaway RN, Hale ML, McLay E, McAllan IAW, Christian M, Hauber ME, Bunce M (2010) Merging ancient and modern DNA: extinct seabird taxon rediscovered in the North Tasman Sea. Biology Letters 6: 94-97.
Anderson MG, Ross HA, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2009) Begging call matching between a specialist brood parasite and its host: a comparative approach to detect co-evolution. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98: 208-216.
Cassey P, Honza M, Grim T, Hauber ME (2008) The modeling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours. Biology Letters 4: 515-517. Read about it in Current Biology.
Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME (2008) Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 655-658.
Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Imber MJ, Stamp RK, Clout MN (2007) Spatial heterogeneity of mesopredator release within an oceanic island system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 20862-20865. Read about it the NY Times.
Hauber ME, Moskat C, Ban M (2006) Experimental shift in hosts' acceptance threshold of inaccurate-mimic brood parasite eggs. Biology Letters 2: 177-180.
Shawkey MD, Hauber ME, Estep LK, Hill GE (2006) Evolutionary transitions and mechanisms of matte and iridescent plumage coloration in grackles and allies (Icteridae). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 3: 777-786.
Kilner RM, Madden JR, Hauber ME (2004) Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources. Science 305: 877-879. Read about it in the NY Times and listen about it on NPR.
Hauber ME, Yeh PJ, Roberts JOL (2004) Patterns and coevolutionary consequences of repeated brood parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: S317-S320.
Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2001) Self-referent phenotype matching: theoretical possibilities and empirical tests. Trends in Neurosciences 24: 609-616.
Hauber ME, Russo SA, Sherman PW (2001) A password for species recognition in a brood parasitic bird.Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 1041-1048. Read about it National Geographic.
Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2000) The armpit effect in hamster kin recognition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 349-350.
Peer-reviewed Publications:
* Articles coauthored with advised students and postdocs.
For a most up to date list, please visit my Google Scholar page.
404. Merondun J, Marques CI, Andrade P, Meshcheryagina S, Galvan I, Afonso S, Alves JM, Araujo PM, Bachurin G, Balacco J, Ban M, Fedrigo O, Formenti G, Fossoy F, Fulop A, Golovatin M, Granja S, Hewson C, Honza M, Howe K, Larson G, Marton A, Moskat C, Mountcastle J, Prochazka P, Redkin Y, Sims Y, Sulc M, Tracey A, Wood JMD, Jarvis ED, Hauber ME, Carneiro M, Wolf JBW (prelim accepted) Evolution and genetic architecture of sex-limited polymorphism in cuckoos. Science Advances.
403. Antonson ND, Enos JK, Lawson SL, Uy FMK, Gill SA, Lynch KS, Hauber ME (in press) Functional neurogenomic responses to acoustic threats, including a heterospecific referential alarm call and its referent, in the auditory forebrain of red-winged blackbirds. Scientific Reports.
402. Enos JK, Lawson SL, Hauber ME (in press) Invasive shrub species as nest substrates do not appear to impact nest failure for Yellow Warblers (Setophaga petechia). Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
401. Medina-Garcia A, Scherner E, McDermott MT, Hauber ME, Safran RJ (in press) Colonial breeding impacts potentially fitness-relevant cognitive processes in barn swallows. Animal Cognition.
400. Hauber ME, Nagy J, Sheard C, Antonson ND, Street SE, Healy SD, Lala KN, Mainwaring MC (2024) Nest architecture influences host use by avian brood parasites and is shaped by coevolutionary dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 291: 20231734.*
399. Kleindorfer S, Brouwer L, Hauber ME, Teunissen N, Peters A, Louter M, Webster MS, Katsis A, Sulloway FJ, Common LK, Austin VI, Colombelli-Negrel D (2024) Nestling begging calls resemble maternal vocal signatures when mothers call slowly to embryos. American Naturalist (online).
398. Chamberlain M, Kacelnik A, Bush A, Hauber ME (2024) A systematic review of methodologies for studying behavioral imprinting. Ethology 130: e13416.*
397. Fernandez-Duque F, Miller ET, Fernandez-Duque M, Falk J, Venable G, Rabinowicz S, Becker CD, Hauber ME (2024) Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud-forest hummingbird guild. Ethology 130: e13410.*
396. Williams HJ, Sridhar VH, Hurme E, Gall GEC, Borrego N, Finerty GE, Couzin I, Galizia CG, Dominy NJ, Rowland HM, Hauber ME, Higham JP, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Melin AD (2023) Sensory collectives in natural systems. eLife 12: e88028.
395. Nagy J, Fulmer AG, Loki V, Ruiz-Raya F, Hauber ME (2023) Biogeographic history, egg colouration, and habitat selection in Turdus thrushes (Aves: Turdidae). Biologia Futura https://doi.org/10.1007/s42977-023-00191-2.
394. Dominguez JS, Hauber ME, Tarwater CE, Williams E, MacDonald S, Strejc B, Pollock HS (2023) Following the Feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance-based foraging associations of birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 2263-2279.*
393. Dominguez JS, Rakovic M, Li D, Pollock HS, Lawson S, Novcic I, Su X, Zeng Q, Al-Dhufari R, Johnson-Cadle, Boldrick J, Chamberlain M, Hauber ME (2023) What’s the rumpus? Resident temperate forest birds approach an unfamiliar neotropical alarm call across three continents. Biology Letters 19: 20230332.*
392. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2023) On the sparrowhawk-like calls of female common cuckoos: testing for heterospecific vocal mimicry and a conspecific functional context. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77: 111.
391. Xu K, Servedio MR, Winnicki SK, Moskat C, Hoover JP, Turner AM, Hauber ME (2023) Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg-mimicry and narrower anti-parasitic egg-rejection thresholds. Evolution Letters 7: 413-421.*
390. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Fernandez-Duque F, Kleindorfer S, Ward MP, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2023) Absence of referential alarm calls in long-term allopatry from the referent: A case study with Galapagos yellow warblers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77: 99.*
389. Fernandez-Duque F, Huerta EY, Lawson SL, Chikoti S, Hauber ME (2023). Nest integration: A novel form of food acquisition by altricial fledglings. Evolutionary Ecology 37: 859-869 (with cover).*
388. Enos J, Smith EB, Ward MP, Swaddle JP, Hauber ME (2023) Increasing perceived predation risk through playbacks reduces Red-winged Blackbird abundance in agriculture late in the breeding season. Ornithological Applications 125: Early Online.*
387. Di Giovanni AJ, Villa J, Stanback M, Thompson CF, Sakaluk S, Hauber ME, Hanley D (2023) Decision rules for egg color-based rejection by two cavity-nesting hosts of the brown-headed cowbird. Journal of Experimental Biology 226, jeb245188.*
386. Katsis AC, Common LK, Hauber ME, Colombelli-Negrel D, Kleindorfer S (2023) From nestling to adult: Personality traits are consistent within but not across life stages in a wild songbird. Behaviour 160: 701–734.
385. Turner AM, Sluis VN, Williams EJ, Benson TJ, Ward MP, Hauber ME (2023) Examining causes and characteristics of egg ejection behaviour in the American Robin (Turdus migratorius). Behaviour 160: 617-633.*
384. Enos JK, Ducay R, Paitz RT, Ward MP, Hauber ME (2023) Female red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) do not alter nest site selection, maternal programming, or hormone-mediated maternal effects in response to perceived nest predation or brood parasitism risk. General and Comparative Endocrinology 341: 114322.*
383. Mainwaring MC, Stoddard MC, Barber I, Deeming DC, Hauber ME (2023) The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 378: 20220136 (with cover).
382. Mainwairing MC, Medina I, Tobalske BW, Hartley IR, Varicchio DJ, Hauber ME (2023) The evolution of nest site use and nest architecture in modern birds and their ancestors. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 378: 20220143.
381. Rivera M, Edwards JA, Hauber ME, Woolley SMN (2023) Machine learning and statistical classification of birdsong link vocal acoustic features with phylogeny. Scientific Reports 13: 7076.*
380. Crudele I, Hauber ME, Reboreda JC, Fiorini VD (2023) Gradual changes in model shape affect egg-directed behaviors by parasitic shiny cowbirds Molothrus bonariensis in captivity. Royal Society Open Science 10: 221477.
379. Schmitz Ornes A, Ducay RL, Fulmer AG, Hauber ME (2023) Coloniality and development impact intraclutch consistency of avian eggs: a comparative analysis of the individual repeatability of eggshell size and shape metrics. The Science of Nature 110: 12.*
378. Moskat C, Elek Z, Hauber ME (2023) Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: a sequential playback study. Behavioural Processes 206: 104840.
377. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2023) Red-winged blackbirds nesting nearer to yellow warbler and conspecific nests experience less brood parasitism. Ecology & Evolution 13: e9818.*
376. Eliason CM, Cooper JC, Hackett SJ, Zahnle E, Pequeno Saco TZ, Maddox JD, Hains T, Hauber ME, Bates JM (2023) Interspecific hybridization explains rapid gorget color divergence in Heliodoxa hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae). Royal Society Open Science 10: 221603.
375. Abolins-Abols M, Peterson M, Studer B, Hale M, Hanley D, Bentley G, Hauber ME (2023) Patterns of stress response to foreign eggs by a rejecter host of an obligate avian brood parasite. Ecology & Evolution 13: e9691.*
374. Novcic I, Mlakar Medved M, Vidovic Z, Hauber ME (2023) Black-headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor’s relative position. Ethology 129:146-155.
373. Choi S, Hauber ME, Legendre LJ, Kim N-H, Lee Y-N, Varricchio DJ (2023) Microstructural and crystallographic evolution of palaeognath (Aves) eggshells. eLife 11: e81092.
372. Jones TM, Di Giovanni AJ, Hauber ME, Ward MP (2023) Ontogenetic effects of brood parasitism by the Brown-headed Cowbird on host offspring. Ecology 104: e3925.
371. Turner AM, Di Giovanni AJ, Antonson ND, Scharf HM, Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2022) Non-invasive elevation of circulating corticosterone increases the rejection of foreign eggs in female American robins (Turdus migratorius). Hormones and Behavior 146: 105278.*
370. Turner AM, Hauber ME, Reichard DG (2022) Twenty-two years of brood parasitism data do not support the mafia hypothesis in an accepter host of the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater). Journal of Field Ornithology 93(4):4.*
369. Antonson ND, Hauber ME, Schelsky WM, Scharf HM, Bullock L, Viverette C, Pirro S, Boves TJ (2022) The complete genome sequence of Protonotaria citrea, the Prothonotary Warbler. Biodiversity Genomes 10.56179/001c.38920 .*
368. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2022) Quantitative analysis of vocalisation types in male common cuckoos' "gowk" call complex. Zoology 154: 126043 (with cover).
367. Antonson ND, Schelsky WM, Tolman D, Kilner RM, Hauber ME (2022) Niche construction through a Goldilocks principle maximizes fitness for a nest-sharing brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 289: 20221223.* Highlighted by FacultyOpinions.
366. Luro AB, Hauber ME (2022) Pressure for rapid and accurate mate recognition promotes avian-perceived plumage sexual dichromatism in true thrushes (genus: Turdus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35: 1558-1567.*
365. Kennerley JA, Somveille M, Hauber ME, Richardson NM, Manica A, Feeney WE (2022) The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite-host relationships. Ecology Letters 25: 1889-1904.
364. Novcic I, Vidovic Z, Hauber ME (2022) Nonrandom pattern of vigilance by preening black-headed gulls. Behaviour 159: 1101-1114.
363. Fulmer AG, Hauber ME (2022) A review of the cues used for rejecting foreign eggs from the nest by the Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula. Ecology & Evolution 12: e8886.*
362. Suckow NM, Pollock HS, Hauber ME, Kastner M, Savidge JA, Baker K, HS Rogers (2022) Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine. Ethology 128: 499-507.*
361. Scharf HM, Hauber ME, Stenstrom KH, Schelsky WM (2022) Should I stay or should I go: The effect of avian brood parasitism on host fledging dynamics. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76: 64.*
360. Burns-Cusato M, Rana A, Hawkins W, Young Z, Hauber ME (2022) Egg burial in the ringneck dove (Streptopelia risoria): a potential laboratory model system for egg rejection research? Journal of Comparative Psychology 136: 189-193.
359. Jones TM, Benson TJ, Hauber ME, Ward MP (2022) Host-community wide patterns of post-fledging behavior and survival of obligate brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds. Oecologia 198: 981-993.
358. Turner AM, DiGiovanni AJ, Hoover JP, Hauber ME (2022) Eggshell texture but not odor treatment affects model egg rejection in American robins (Turdus migratorius). Animal Cognition (online).*
357. Scharf HM, Schelsky WM, Chamberlain ML, Hauber ME (2022) Host parent responses to heterospecific parasite nestling alarm calls are independent of past and current experience with experimental brood parasitism. Animal Cognition (online).*
356. Hauber ME, Riehl CR, Nagy J (2022) Clutch size and the rejection of parasitic eggs: a comparative test of the maternal investment hypothesis. Evolutionary Ecology 36: 263-272.
355. Goodson DJ, van Riper CJ, Andrade R, Cebrian-Piqueras MA, Hauber ME (2022) Perceived inclusivity and trust in protected area management decisions among stakeholders in Alaska. People and Nature 4: 758-772.*
354. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2022) Syntax errors do not disrupt acoustic communication in the common cuckoo. Scientific Reports 12: 1568.
353. Magory Cohen T, Hauber ME, Akriotis T, Crochet P-A, Karris G, Kirschel ANG, Khoury F, Menchetti M, Mori E, Per E, Reino L, Saavedra S, Santana J, Dor R (2022) Accelerated avian invasion into the Mediterranean region endangers biodiversity and mandates international collaboration. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 1440-1455.
352. Gandia KM, Cappa F, Baracchi D, Hauber ME, Beani L, Uy FMK (2022) Caste, sex, and parasitism influence brain plasticity in a social wasp. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 803437.
351. Raby CL, Cusick JA, Furtbauer I, Graham KE, Habig B, Hauber ME, Madden JR, Strauss A, Fernandez-Juricic E (2022) An inclusive venue to present and discuss behavioural biology research: the first global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference. Animal Behaviour 187: 191-207.
350. Winnicki SK, Hauber ME, Benson TJ, Abolins-Abols M (2022) Nature Notes: Ground-nesting by arboreal American robins (Turdus migratorius). Ecology and Evolution 12: e8489.*
349. Enos JK, Hauber ME, Aidala Z (2022) Delayed timing of breeding attempts, but not time lost to nest construction, reduces the cumulative annual reproductive output of the Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe). Avian Biology Research 15: 34-40.*
348. Stenstrom K, Voss HU, Tokarev K, Phan ML, Hauber ME (2022) Direction of response selectivity between conspecific and heterospecific auditory stimuli varies with response metric. Behavioural Brain Research 416: 113534.*
347. Thompson CF, Hodges KE, Mortimer NT, Vrailas-Mortimer AD, Sakaluk SK, Hauber ME (2022) Avian eggshell coloration predicts shell-matrix protoporphyrin content. Canadian Journal of Zoology 100: 77-81.
346. Rozanksi AN, Cini A, Lopreto TE, Gandia KM, Hauber ME, Cervo R, Uy FMK (2022) Differential investment in visual and olfactory brain regions is linked to the sensory needs of a wasp social parasite and its host. Journal of Comparative Neurology 570: 756-767.
345. Watzek J, Hauber E, Jack KM, Murrell JR, Tecot SR, Brosnan SF (2021) Modelling collective decision-making: insights into collective anti-predator behaviors from an agent-based approach. Behavioural Processes 193: 104530.
344. McClelland SC, Reynolds M, Cordall M, Hauber ME, Goymann W, McClean LA, Hamama S, Lund J, Dixit T, Louder MIM, Safari I, Honza M, Spottiswoode CN, Portugal SJ (2021) Embryo movement is more frequent in obligate avian brood parasites than birds with parental reproductive strategies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288: 20211137.*
343. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2021) Eavesdropping on referential Yellow Warbler alarm calls by Red-winged Blackbirds is mediated by brood parasitism risk. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 706170.* (Special issue on “Evolution and Function of Acoustic and Visual Signals in Avian Brood Parasitism”).
342. McClelland SC, Cassey P, Maurer G, Hauber ME, Portugal SJ (2021). How much calcium to shell out? Eggshell calcium carbonate content is greater in birds with thinner shells, larger clutches and longer lifespans. Journal of the Royal Society Interface: 20210502.
341. Ausprey IJ, Hauber ME (2021) Host and brood parasite coevolutionary interactions covary with comparative patterns of the avian visual system. Biology Letters 17: 20210309.
340. Fischer EK, Hauber ME, Bell AM (2021) Back to the basics? Transcriptomics offer insights into the role of space, time, and the environment for gene expression and behaviour. Biology Letters 17: 20210293.
339. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Wolf CS, Stenstrom K, Winnicki SK, Benson TJ, Hauber ME#, Gill SA# (2021). Referential alarm calling elicits future vigilance in the host of an avian brood parasite. Biology Letters 17: 20210377 (with cover).* #Equal contribution.
338. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2021) Male common cuckoos use a three-note variant of their “cu-coo” call for duetting with conspecific females. Behavioural Processes 191: 104472.
337. Samas P, Hauber ME, Honza M (2021) A meta-analysis of avian eggshell characteristics cueing egg-rejection defenses against brood parasitism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 703208. (Special issue on “Evolution and Function of Acoustic and Visual Signals in Avian Brood Parasitism”).
336. Lopez AV, Bolmaro RE, Avalos M, Gerschenson LN, Reboreda JC, Fiorini VD, Tartalini V, Risso P, Hauber ME (2021) How to build a puncture- and breakage-resistant eggshell? Mechanical and structural analyses of avian brood parasites and their hosts. Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb243016.* (Finalist for JEB outstanding paper prize).
335. Novcic I, Krunic S, Golubovic A, Zoric K, Hauber ME (2021) The reliability of measurements of foraging behavior in shorebirds: a comparison of real-time and slow-motion recordings. Waterbirds 44: 68-75.
334. Elek Z, Ban M, Fulop A, Marton A, Hauber ME, Moskat C (2021) Call rate in Common Cuckoos does not predict body size and responses to conspecific playbacks. Journal of Ornithology 162: 1183-1192.
333. Pollock HS, MacDonald SE, Vizentin-Bugoni J, Brawn JD, Sutton ZS, Hauber ME (2021) The Scientific Naturalist: What the pluck? Theft of mammal hair by birds is an overlooked but common behavior with fitness implications. Ecology 102: e03501.*
332. Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Griffith SC (2021) The natural history of model organisms: Neurogenomic insights into the behavior and vocal development of the zebra finch. eLife 10: e61849.*
331. Enos JK, Ward MP, Hauber ME (2021) A review of the scientific evidence on the impact of biologically salient frightening devices to protect crops from avian pests. Crop Protection 148: 105734.*
330. Reiner Brodetzki T, Lotem A, Safran RJ, Hauber ME (2021) Lack of subspecies-recognition in breeding Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica transitiva). Behavioural Processes 189: 104422.
329. Antonson ND, Rivera M, Abolins-Abols M, Kleindorfer S, Liu W-C, Hauber ME (2021) Early acoustic experience alters genome-wide methylation in the auditory forebrain of songbird embryos. Neuroscience Letters 755: 135917.*
328. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Mendes NC, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2021) Responses of female yellow warblers to playbacks signaling brood parasitism and predation risk: A quasi-replication study. Animal Behavior and Cognition 8: 216-230 (Special Issue on Behavioral Replication Studies).*
327. Turner AM, Hauber ME (2021) The American robin (Turdus migratorius): A focal species for anti-parasitic egg rejection studies among hosts of the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater). Ethology 127: 490-503 (Species in the Spotlight Section).*
326. Mainwaring MC, Nagy J, Hauber ME (2021) Sex-specific contributions to nest building in birds. Behavioral Ecology 32: 1075-1085.
325. Clark DL, Hauber ME, Anderson PSL (2021) Nest substrate and tool shape significantly affect the mechanics and energy requirements of avian eggshell puncture. Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb238832.*
324. Lopez AV, Reboreda JC, Fiorini VD, Gerschenson LN, Hauber ME (2021) A comparative study of the structural and mechanical properties of avian eggshells amongst hosts of obligate brood parasitic cowbirds (genus Molothrus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133: 1057–1076.*
323. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Antonson ND, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2021) Do hosts of avian brood parasites discriminate parasitic vs. predatory threats? A meta-analysis. Advances in the Study of Behavior 53: 63-95.*
322. Pollock HS, Hoover JP, Uy FMK, Hauber ME (2021) Brood parasites are a heterogeneous and functionally distinct class of natural enemies. Trends in Parasitology 37: 588-596.*
321. Scharf HM, Hauber ME, Mommer BC, Hoover JP, Schelsky WM (2021) The effect of avian brood parasitism on physiological responses of host nestlings. Oecologia 195: 861-872.*
320. Magory Cohen T, Major RE, Kumar S, Nair M, Ewart KM, Hauber ME, Dor R (2021) Rapid morphological changes as agents of adaptation in introduced populations of the common myna (Acridotheres tristis). Evolutionary Ecology 35: 443-462.
319. Fulmer AG, Hauber ME (2021) Autopreening behavior may convey information about internal social state in Arabian Babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) allopreening dyads. Behaviour 158: 427-446.*
318. Scharf HM, Abolins-Abols M, Stenstrom KH, Tolman DT, Schelsky WM, Hauber ME (2021) Exposure to a mimetic or non-mimetic model avian brood parasite egg does not produce differential glucocorticoid responses in an egg-accepter host species. General and Comparative Endocrinology 304: 113723 (with cover).*
317. Ducay RL, Luro AB, Hansen ES, Hauber ME (2021) Multicomponent shell traits are consistent with an individual recognition function of the appearance of common murre (Uria aalge) eggs: A biological replication study. Ecology and Evolution 11: 2402-2409.*
316. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Mendes NC, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2021) Pairing status moderates both the production of and responses to anti-parasitic referential alarm calls in male yellow warblers. Ethology 127: 385-394.*
315. Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Evans C, Katsis AC, Brouwer L, Adreani NM, Kleindorfer S (2021) Prenatal auditory learning in avian vocal learners and non-learners. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 376: 20200247.
314. Martin LB, Hanson HE, Hauber ME, Ghalambor CK (2021) Genes, environments, and phenotypic plasticity in immunology. Trends in Immunology 42: 198-208.
313. Withers SJ, Parsons S, Hauber ME, Kendrick A, Lavery S (2021). Genetic divergence between isolated populations of the North Island New Zealand Rifleman (Acanthisitta chloris granti) implicates ancient biogeographic impacts rather than recent habitat fragmentation. Ecology & Evolution 11: 5998-6014.*
312. Hauber ME, Winnicki SK, Hoover JP, Hanley D, Hays IR (2021) The limits of egg recognition: Testing acceptance thresholds of American robins in response to decreasingly egg-shaped objects in the nest. Royal Society Open Science 8: 201615 (with cover).*
311. Li D, Hauber ME (2021) Parasitic begging calls of nestmate-evictor common cuckoos stimulate more parental provisions by red-winged blackbirds than calls of nest-sharing brown-headed cowbirds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75: 11.
310. Moskat C, Taylor DM, Hauber ME (2021) Effective conspecific communication with aberrant calls in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75: 7.*
309. Marton A, Fulop A, Ban M, Hauber ME, Moskat C (2021) Female common cuckoo calls dampen the mobbing intensity of great reed warbler hosts. Ethology 127: 286-293 (with cover).
308. Hauber ME, Elek Z, Moskat C (2021) Advancing onset of breeding dates in brood parasitic common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts over a 22-year period. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 33: 553-560.
307. Winnicki SK, Strausberger BM, Antonson ND, Burhans DE, Lock J, Kilpatrick AM, Hauber ME (2021) Developmental asynchrony and host species identity predict variability in nestling growth rates of an obligate brood parasite: a test of the “growth-tuning” hypothesis. Canadian Journal of Zoology 99: 213–220.*
306. Hauber ME, Hoover JP, Rhodes OR, Ducay RL, Hanley D (2021) The blunt pole is not a source of more salient recognition cues than the sharp pole for the rejection of model eggs by American robins (Turdus migratorius). Journal of Vertebrate Biology 70: 20111.*
305. Rutledge S, Carr DE, Hauber ME, Hanley D (2021) Best of a bad job or masters of illusion: do nest light conditions make the eggs of brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) more similar to the eggs of its hosts? Ethology 127: 117-124.*
304. Hauber ME, Taylor DM, Brawn JD (2021) Variable or atypical? Comparing unusual songs of the Tufted Titmouse with a citizen-science database. Journal of Ornithology 162: 313-316.*
303. Hauber ME (2020) Natural and artificial scents do not increase egg rejection rates of model brood parasitic eggs by American Robins (Turdus migratorius). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 66: 309-317.
302. Luro AB, Fernandez-Juricic E, Baumhardt P, Hauber ME (2020) Visual acuity and egg spatial chromatic contrast predict antiparasitic egg rejection behavior of American robins. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb229609.*
301. Czeisel J, Hauber ME (2020) Seasonal and anthropogenic factors predict breeding success in Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster) in shared greenspace. Kingbird 70: 102-119.*
300. Antonson ND, Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME, Botero CA (2020) Ecological uncertainty favours the diversification of host use in avian brood parasites. Nature Communications 11: 4185.*
299. Feng S, Stiller J, Deng Y, Armstrong J, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, Andreu-Sanchez S, Margaryan A, Howard JT, Parent C, Pacheco G, Sinding M-HS, Puetz L, Cavill E, Ribeiro AM, Eckhart L, Fjeldsa J, Hosner PA, Brumfield RT, Christidis L, Bertelsen MF, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Tietze DT, Robertson BC, Song G, Borgia G, Claramunt S, Lovette IJ, Cowen SJ, Njoroge P, Dumbacher JP, Ryder OA , Fuchs J, Bunce M, Burt DW, Cracraft J, Meng G, Hackett SJ, Ryan PG, Jonsson KA, Jamieson IG, da Fonseca RR, Braun EL, Houde P, Mirarab S, Suh A, Stervander M, Hansson B, Sigeman H, Ponnikas S, Sigeman H, Stervander M, Frandsen PB, van der Zwan H, van der Sluis R, Visser C, Balakrishnan C, Clark AG, Fitzpatrick JW, Bowman R, Chen N, Cloutier A, Sackton TB, Edwards SV, Foote DJ, Shakya S, Sheldon FH, Vignal A, Soares AER, Shapiro B, Gonzalez-Solis J, Ferrer-Obiol J, Rozas J, Riutort M, Tigano A, Friesen V, Dalen L, Urrutia AO, Szekely T, Liu Y, Campana MG, Corvelo A, Fleischer RC, Rutherford KM, Gemmell NJ, Dussex N, Mouritsen H, Thiele N, Delmore K, Liedvogel M, Franke A, Hoppner MP, Krone O, Fudickar AM, Mila B, Ketterson ED, Fidler AE, Friis G, Parody-Merino AM, Battley PF, Cox MP, Lima NCB, Prosdocimi F, Parchman TL, Schlinger BA, Loiselle BA, Blake JG, Lim HC, Day LB, Fuxjager MJ, Baldwin MW, Braun MJ, Wirthlin M, Dikow RB, Ryder TB, Camenisch G, Keller LF, DaCosta JM, Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Megna LC, Carling MD, Wang B, Taylor SA, Del-Rio G, Aleixo A, Vasconcelos ATR, Mello CV, Weir JT, Haussler D, Li Q, Yang H, Wang J, Lei F, Rahbek C, Gilbert MTP, Graves GR, Jarvis ED, Paten B, Zhang G (in press) Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature 287: 252-257 (with cover).*
298. Hauber ME, Heath SK, Tonra CM (2020) Direct estimates of breeding site fidelity and natal philopatry in brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds Molothrus ater. Ardea 180: (online).
297. Novcic I, Krunic S, Stankovic D, Hauber ME (2020) Duration of ‘peeks’ in ducks: how much time do Pochard Aythya ferina spend with eye open while in sleeping posture? Bird Study 67: 256-260.
296. Antonson ND, Hauber ME, Mommer BC, Hoover JP, Schelsky WM (2020) Physiological responses of host parents to rearing an avian brood parasite: An experimental study. Hormones and Behavior 125: 104812.*
295. Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2020) Endocrine regulation of egg rejection in an avian brood parasite host. Biology Letters 16: 20200225.*
294. Hauber ME, Kim CR, Goethe C, Hanley D (2020) Self-referent phenotype matching is a poor predictor of egg rejection by American Robins. Journal of Field Ornithology 91: 254–262.*
293. Louder MIM, Schelsky WM, Hoover JP, Louder ANA, Hauber ME (2020) A seasonal shift in offspring sex ratio of the brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater). Journal of Avian Biology 51: e02560.*
292. Hauber ME, Abolins-Abols M, Kim CR, Paitz RT (2020) Inter-individual variation in anti-parasitic egg rejection behavior: a test of the maternal investment hypothesis. Integrative Organismal Biology 2: obaa014.*
291. Lawson SL, Leuschner N, Gill BJ, Enos JK, Hauber ME (2020) Loss of graded enemy recognition in a Whitehead population allopatric with brood parasitic Long-tailed Cuckoos. Avocetta Journal of Ornithology 44: 3-10.*
290. Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2020) Proximate predictors of variation in egg rejection behavior by hosts of avian brood parasites. Journal of Comparative Psychology (online).*
289. Moskat C, Hauber ME, Ruzickova J, Martin A, Ban M, Elek Z (2020) Female-female aggression and male responses to the two colour morphs of female common cuckoos. The Science of Nature 107: 28.
288. Enos JK, Hyland-Bruno J, Hauber ME (in press) Aggressive responses of Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) and American Robins (Turdus migratorius) towards brood parasites and nest predators. Wilson Journal of Ornithology.*
287. Scharf HM, Suarez AV, Reeve HK, Hauber ME (2020). The evolution of conspecific acceptance threshold models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 375: 20190475.*
286. Suarez AV, Scharf HM, HK Reeve, Hauber ME (2020) Theme Issue Introduction: Signal detection, acceptance thresholds, and the evolution of animal recognition systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 375: 20190464.*
285. Luro A, Hauber ME (2020) Invited Commentary: The ecological context and fitness impact of categorical perception: a comment on Green et al. Behavioral Ecology 31: 869-870.*
284. Hays I, Ljubcic I, Hauber ME (2020) The shape of avian eggs: Assessment of a novel metric for quantifying eggshell conicality. Auk: Ornithological Advances 137: ukaa021.*
283. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Mendes NC, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2020) Heterospecific eavesdropping on an anti-parasitic referential alarm call. Communications Biology 3: 143.*
282. Hanson HE, Mathews NS, Hauber ME, Martin LB (2020) The natural history of model organisms: the house sparrow in the service of basic and applied biology. eLife 9: e52803.
281. Luro A, Hauber ME (2020) Avian diet and foraging ecology constrain foreign egg recognition and rejection. Avian Biology Research 13: 24-31.*
280. Louder MIM, Lafayette M, Louder AA, Uy FMK, Balakrishnan CN, Yasukawa K, Hauber ME (2020) Shared transcriptional responses to con- and heterospecific behavioral antagonists in a wild songbird. Scientific Reports 10: 4092.*
279. Magory Cohen T, Kumar S, Nair M, Hauber ME, Dor R (2020) Innovation and decreased neophobia drive invasion success in a widespread avian invader. Animal Behaviour 163: 61-72.
278. Ismar-Rebitz SMH , Daniel C, Stephenson BM, Raubenheimer D, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2020) Sex-specific reproductive benefits of early arrival to the breeding colony in a seabird. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132: 29-38.*
277. Manna TJ, Hanley D, Honza M, Capek M, Rutila J, Samas P, Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2020) Fitting different visual models to behavioral patterns of parasitic egg rejection along a natural egg color gradient in a cavity-nesting host species. Vision Research 167: 54-59.*
276. Louder MIM, Balakrishnan CN, Louder ANA, Driver RJ, London SE, Hauber ME (2019) An acoustic password enhances auditory learning in juvenile brood parasitic cowbirds. Current Biology 29: 4045-4051.*
275. Hauber ME, Dainson M, Luro A, Louder AA, Hanley D (2019) When are egg rejection cues perceived? A test using thermochromic eggs in an avian brood parasite host. Animal Cognition 22:1141–1148.*
274. Louder MIM, Hauber ME, Louder ANA, Hoover JP, Schelsky WM (2019) Greater opportunities for sexual selection in male than in female obligate brood parasitic birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32: 1310-1315 (with cover).*
273. Nagy J, Hauber ME, Hartley IR, Mainwaring MC (2019) Correlated evolution of nest and egg characteristics in birds. Animal Behaviour 158: 211-225.
272. Scharf HM, Stenstrom K, Dainson M, Benson TJ, Fernandez-Juricic E, Hauber ME (2019) Mimicry-dependent lateralization in the visual inspection of foreign eggs by American robins. Biology Letters 15: 20190351.*
271. Abolins-Abols M, Hanley D, Moskat C, Grim T, Hauber ME (2019) Anti-parasitic egg rejection by great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) tracks differences along an eggshell color gradient. Behavioural Processes 166: 103902.*
270. Louder MIM, Lawson S, Lynch K, Balakrishnan CN, Hauber ME (2019) Neural mechanisms of auditory species recognition in birds. Biological Reviews 94: 1619-1635.*
269. Hauber ME, Bond AL, Kouwenberg A-L, Robertson GJ, Hansen EJ, Holford M, Dainson M, Luro A, Dale J (2019) The chemical basis of a signal of individual identity: shell pigment concentrations track the unique appearance of Common Murre eggs. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16: 20190115.*
268. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2019) Sex-specific responses to simulated territorial intrusions in the common cuckoo: a dual function of female acoustic signaling. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 60.
267. Mackay JWB, Russell JC, Murphy EC, Clout MN, Hauber ME (2019) See how they run: increased ranging behavior counters potential Allee effects in experimentally introduced house mice on an island. Biological Invasions 21:1669-1681.*
266. Hanley D, Gern K, Hauber ME, Grim T (2019) Host responses to foreign eggs across the avian visual color space. American Naturalist 194: 17-27.*
265. Hanley D, Lopez AV, Fiorini VD, Reboreda JC, Grim T, Hauber ME (2019) Variation in multicomponent recognition cues alters egg rejection decisions: a test of the optimal acceptance threshold hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 374: 20180195.* (Faculty of 1000 Prime Recommended).
264. Moskat C, Ban M, Fulop A, Bereczki J, Hauber ME (2019) Bimodal habitat use in brood parasitic Common Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) revealed by GPS telemetry. Auk: Ornithological Advances 136: 1-12.
263. Rivera M, Cealie M, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer S, Liu W (2019) Neural activation in response to conspecific songs in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) embryos and nestlings. NeuroReport 30: 217–221.*
262. Hauber ME, Luro A, McCarty CJ, Barateli K, Cassey P, Hansen E, Dale J (2019) Interannual repeatability of eggshell phenotype in individual female Common Murres (Uria aalge). Canadian Journal of Zoology 97: 385-391.*
261. Manna TJ, Moskat C, Tong L, Ban M, Aidala Z, Low J, Hauber ME (2019) Multiple parasitism reduces egg rejection in the host of a mimetic avian brood parasite. Journal of Comparative Psychology 133: 351-358.*
260. Withers S, Armstrong D, Ward-Smith T, Parsons S, Hauber ME (2019) Improved methods for reducing translocation mortality and obtaining reliable population projections for reintroduction of the New Zealand rifleman (Acanthisitta chloris). Bird Conservation International 29: 542-557 (with cover).*
259. Aidala Z, Strausberger B, Hauber ME (2019) Increased Egg-Nest Visual Contrast Does Not Induce Egg Ejection in the Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), an Accepter Host of the Brood Parasitic Brown-Headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater). Journal of Comparative Psychology 133: 46–55.*
258. Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2018) Invited Commentary: Applying the framework and concepts of parasitology to avian brood parasitism: a comment on Aviles. Behavioral Ecology 29: 520–521.*
257. Kleindorfer S, Evans C, Hauber ME, Colombelli-Negrel D (2018) Could prenatal sound discrimination predict vocal complexity later in life? BMC Zoology 3: 11.
256. Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2018) Host defenses against avian brood parasitism: an endocrine perspective. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20180980 (with cover).*
255. Dainson M, Mark M, Hossain M, Yoo B, Holford M, McNeil S, Riehl C, Hauber ME (2018) How to make a mimic? Brood parasitic Striped Cuckoo eggs match host shell color but not pigment concentration. Journal of Chemical Ecology 44: 940-946 (with cover).*
254. Masello JF, Martínez J, Calderón L, Wink M, Quillfeldt P, Sanz V, Theuerkauf J, Ortiz-Catedral L, Berkunsky I, Brunton D, Díaz Luque JA, Hauber ME, Ojeda V, Barnaud A, Casalins L, Jackson B, Mijares A, Rosales R, Seixas G, Serafini P, Silva-Iturriza A, Sipinski E, Vásquez R, Widmann P, Widmann I, Merino S (2018): Can the intake of antiparasitic secondary metabolites explain the low prevalence of hemoparasites among wild Psittaciformes? Parasites & Vectors 11: 357.*
253. Katsis AC, Davies MH, Buchanan KL, Kleindorfer S, Hauber ME, Mariette MM (2018) Prenatal exposure to incubation calls affects song learning in the zebra finch. Scientific Reports 8: 15232.
252. Rivera M, Louder MIM, Kleindorfer S, Liu W, Hauber ME (2018) Avian prenatal auditory stimulation: progress and perspectives. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72: 112.*
251. Hauber ME, Dainson M, Baldassarre DT, Hossain M, Holford M, Riehl C (2018) The perceptual and chemical basis of egg discrimination in communally nesting greater anis Crotophaga major. Journal of Avian Biology 49: e01776 (with cover).*
250. Lynch KS, Louder MIM, Hauber ME (2018) Species-specific auditory forebrain responses to non-learned vocalizations in juvenile blackbirds. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 91: 193-200.*
249. Moskat C, Hauber ME, Ban M, Fulop A, Geltsch N, Marton A, Elek Z (2018) Are both notes of the common cuckoo’s call necessary for familiarity recognition? Behavioural Processes 157: 685-690.*
248. Besel D, Hauber ME, Hunter C, Ward-Smith T, Raubenheimer D, Millar CD, Ismar SMH (2018) Multifactorial roles of interannual variability, season, and sex for foraging patterns in a sexually size monomorphic seabird, the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator). Marine Biology 165: 72.*
247. Hays IR, Hauber ME (2018) How the egg rolls: a morphological analysis of avian egg shape in the context of displacement dynamics. Journal of Experimental Biology 221: jeb.178988.*
246. Louder MIM, Hauber ME, Balakrishnan C (2018) Early social experience alters transcriptomic responses to species-specific song stimuli in female songbirds. Behavioural Brain Research 347: 69-76.*
245. Dinets V, Sokolovskis K, Hanley D, Hauber ME (2018) Striking difference in response to expanding brood parasites by birds of western and eastern Beringia. Journal of Field Ornithology 89: 117–125.*
244. Canniff L, Dainson M, Lopez AV, Hauber ME, Grim T, Samas P, Hanley D (2018) Probing the limits of egg recognition using egg rejection experiments along phenotypic gradients. Journal of Visualized Experiments 138: e57512.*
243. de la Colina MA, Pompilio L, Hauber ME, Reboreda JC, Mahler B (2018) Parasitic egg rejection decisions of chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus are independent of clutch composition. Animal Cognition 21: 301–305.*
242. Luro A, Igic B, Croston R, Lopez AV, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2018) Which egg features predict egg rejection responses in American robins? Replicating Rothstein’s (1982) study. Ecology & Evolution 8: 1673-1679.*
241. Hauber ME, Daniel C, Stephenson BM, Millar DC, Ismar SMH (2018) Genetic mating system of Australasian Gannets (Morus serrator). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 130: 763-770.*
240. Kopp M, Servedio MR, Mendelson TC, Safran RJ, Rodriguez RL, Hauber ME, Scordato EC, Symes LB, Balakrishnan CN, Zonana DM, van Doorn GS (2018) Synthesis: Mechanisms of assortative mating in speciation with gene flow: connecting theory and empirical research. American Naturalist 191: 1-20.
239. Ban M, Moskat C, Fulop A, Hauber ME (2018) Return migration of Common Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) between breeding grounds in Hungary and wintering grounds in Africa as documented by non-PTT GPS technology. Journal of Ornithology 159: 337-344.
238. Dearborn DC, Page SM, Dainson M, Hauber ME, Hanley D (2017) Eggshells as hosts of bacterial communities: an experimental test of the antimicrobial egg coloration hypothesis. Ecology & Evolution 7: 9711–9719.*
237. Dainson M, Hauber ME, Lopez A, Grim T, Hanley D (2017) Does contrast between eggshell ground and spot coloration affect egg rejection? The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) 104: 54.*
236. Cuthill I, Allen W, Arbuckle K, Caspers B, Chaplin G, Hauber ME, Hill GE, Jablonski N, Jiggins C, Kelber A, Mappes J, Marshall J, Merrill R, Osorio D, Prum R, Roberts N, Roulin A, Rowland H, Sherratt T, Skelhorn J, Speed M, Stevens M, s MC, Stuart-Fox D, Talas L, Tibbetts E, Caro (2017) The Biology of Color. Science 357: 470 (eaan0221).
235. Crystal Ornelas R, Lockwood JL, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2017) The establishment threat of the obligate brood-parasitic Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura) in North America and the Antilles. The Condor: Ornithological Applications 119: 449-458.*
234. Lynch K, Gaglio A, Tyler E, Coculo J, Louder MM, Hauber ME (2017) A neural basis for password-based species recognition in an avian brood parasite. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 2345-2353.*
233. Luro AB, Hauber ME (2017) A test of the nest sanitation hypothesis for the evolution of foreign egg rejection in an avian brood parasite rejecter host species. The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) 104: 14.*
232. Stoddard MC, Hauber ME (2017) Colour, vision and coevolution in avian brood parasitism. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London B 372: 20160339.
231. Hanley D, Grim T, Igic B, Samas P, Lopez AV, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2017) Egg discrimination along a gradient of natural variation in eggshell coloration. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 284: 20162592.*
230. Strausberger BM, Hauber ME (2017) Encounters with adult brood parasitic cowbirds at nests, not costly parasitic eggs, elicit nest desertion by Chipping Sparrows (Spizella passerina). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129: 554-559.
229. Moskat C, Elek Z, Ban M, Geltsch N, Hauber ME (2017) Can common cuckoos discriminate between neighbours and strangers by their calls? Animal Behaviour 126: 253-260.
228. d’Alba L, Torres R, Waterhouse GIN, Eliason C, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2017) What Does the Eggshell Cuticle Do? A Functional Comparison of Avian Eggshell Cuticles. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 90: 588-599.
227. Nelson Slater M, Hauber ME (2017) Olfactory enrichment and scent cue associative learning in captive birds of prey. Zoo Biology 36: 120-126.*
226. Ismar SMH, Raubenheimer D, Bury SJ, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2017) Sex-specific foraging during parental care in a size-monomorphic seabird, the Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129:139-147.*
225. Manna T, Grim T, Cooper C, Baylis S, Waterhouse GIN, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2017) Does the House Sparrow Passer domesticus represent a global model species for egg rejection behavior? Journal of Avian Biology 48: 346–352 (with cover).*
224. Overbeek A, Hauber ME, Brown E, Cleland S, Maloney R, Steeves TE (2017) Evidence for brood parasitism in a critically endangered Charadriiform with implications for conservation. Journal of Ornithology 158: 333-337.
223. Igic B, Hauber ME, Grim T, Prochazka P, Moskat C, Shawkey MD, Honza M (2017) Brood parasite and host eggshells undergo similar levels of decalcification during embryonic development. Journal of Zoology 301: 165-173 (with cover).*
222. Louder MIM, Voss HU, Manna TJ, Carryl SS, London SE, Balakrishnan CN, Hauber ME (2016) Shared neural substrates for song discrimination in parental and parasitic songbirds. Neuroscience Letters 622: 49-54.*
221. Mendelson TC, Fitzpatrick CL, Hauber ME, Pence CH, Rodgriguez RL, Safran RJ, Stern CA, Stevens JR (2016) Cognitive phenotypes and the evolution of animal decisions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 11: 850-859.
220. d’Alba L, Rafael M, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2016) The evolution of eggshell cuticle in relation to nesting ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20160687.
219. Hanley D, Sulc M, Brennan P, Hauber ME, Grim T, Honza M (2016) Dynamic egg colour mimicry. Ecology & Evolution 6: 4192-4202.*
218. Colombelli-Négrel D, Webster MS, Dowling JL, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer S (2016) Vocal imitation of mother's calls by begging Red-backed Fairy-wren nestlings increases parental provisioning. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 133: 273–285.
217. Yasukawa K, Lindsey-Robbins J, Henger CS, Hauber ME (2016) Antiparasitic behaviors of Red-winged Blackbirds in response to simulated Brown-headed Cowbirds: further tests of the frontloaded parasite-defense hypothesis. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128: 475-486 (with frontispiece).*
216. Hebets EA, Barron AB, Balakrishnan C, Hauber ME, Mason P, Hoke K (2016) A systems approach to animal signaling. Proceeding of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20152889.
215. Brulez K, Miksik I, Cooney CR, Hauber ME, Lovell PG, Maurer G, Portugal SJ, Russell D, Reynolds J, Cassey P (2016) Eggshell pigment composition co-varies with phylogeny but neither with life history nor with nesting ecology traits of British passerines. Ecology & Evolution 6: 1637-1645.
214. Ryan A, Hauber ME (2016) Group compositional changes impact the social and feeding behavior of captive hamadryas baboons Papio hamadryas hamadryas. Zoo Biology 35: 137-146.*
213. Fulmer AG, Santema P, Hauber ME (2016) Intrabrood rank, age, and adult presence predict novelty seeking in individual Arabian Babblers, Turdoides squamiceps. Animal Behaviour 114: 93-99.*
212. de la Colina MA, Hauber ME, Strausberger BM, Reboreda JC, Mahler B (2016) Molecular tracking of individual host use in the Shiny Cowbird – a generalist brood parasite. Ecology & Evolution 6: 4684-4696.*
211. Manna TJ, Hauber ME (2016) Recent progress in brood parasitism research among social insects. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 12: 1-5.*
210. Geltsch N, Ban M, Hauber ME, Moskat C (2016) Optimal timing of egg laying by Common Cuckoos Cuculus canorus: when should parasitic eggs be laid to precede the host eggs in hatching? Bird Study 63: 46-51.
209. Fidler AE, Aidala Z, Anderson MG, Ortiz-Catedral L, Hauber ME (2016). Pseudogenisation of the short-wavelength sensitive 1 (SWS1) opsin gene in two New Zealand endemic passerine species: the Yellowhead (Mohoua ochrocephala) and Brown Creeper (M. novaeseelandiae). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128: 159-163.*
208. Fulmer AG, Hauber ME (2016) A siblicidal origin for avian brood parasitism? Journal of Ornithology 157: 219–227.*
207. Larson LR, Hauber ME, Cooper C (2016) Emotions as drivers of wildlife stewardship behavior: Citizen science nest monitors’ responses to invasive house sparrows. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 21: 18-33.
206. Louder MIM, Ward MP, Schelsky WM, Hauber ME, Hoover JP (2015) Out on their own: a test of adult-assisted dispersal in fledgling brood parasites reveals solitary departures from hosts. Animal Behaviour 110: 29-37.*
205. Dinets V, Samas P, Croston R, Grim T, Hauber ME (2015) Predicting the responses of native birds to trans-oceanic invasions by avian brood parasites. Journal of Field Ornithology 86: 244-251.*
204. Verdes A, Cho W, Hossain M, Brennan PLR , Hanley D, Grim T, Hauber ME, Holford M (2015) Nature’s palette: Characterization of shared pigments in colorful avian and mollusk shells. PLoS ONE 10: e0143545.*
203. Hauber ME, Aidala Z, Igic B, Shawkey MD, Moskat C (2015) Experimental shifts in nest-egg contrasts do not predict egg rejection responses in an avian host-parasite system. Animal Cognition 18: 1133-1141.*
202. Igic B, Zarate E, Sewell MA, Moskat C, Cassey P, Rutila J, Grim T, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2015) A comparison of egg yolk lipid constituents between parasitic Common Cuckoos and their hosts. Auk: Ornithological Advances 132: 817–825.*
201. Thomas DB, Hauber ME, Hanley D, Waterhouse GIN, Fraser S, Gordon KC (2015) Analysing avian eggshell pigments with Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Experimental Biology 218, 2670-2674.*
200. Hanley D, Grim T, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2015) Not so colourful after all: eggshell pigments constrain avian eggshell colour space. Biology Letters 11: 20150087.*
199. Igic B, Nunez V, Voss HU, Croston R, Aidala Z, Lopez AV, Van Tatenhove A, Holford ME, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2015) Using 3D printed eggs to examine the egg-rejection behaviour of wild birds. PeerJ 3:e965.*
198. Barron AB, Hebets EA, Cleland TA, Fitzpatrick CL, Hauber ME, Stevens J (2015) Embracing multiple definitions of learning. Trends in Neurosciences 38: 405-407.
197. Hauber ME, Tong L, Ban M, Croston R, Grim T, Waterhouse GIN, Shawkey MD, Barron AB, Moskat C (2015) The value of artificial stimuli in behavioral research: making the case for egg rejection studies in avian brood parasitism. Ethology 121: 521-528.*
196. Fecheyr-Lippens DC, Igic B, D'Alba L, Hanley D, Verdes A, Holford ME, Waterhouse GIN, Grim T, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2015) The cuticle modulates ultraviolet reflectance of avian eggshells. Biology Open 4: 753-759.*
195. Croston R, Hauber ME (2015) Experimental shifts in intraclutch egg color variation do not affect egg rejection in a host of a non-egg-mimetic avian brood parasite. PLoS ONE 10: e0121213.*
194. Hanley D, Samas P, Heryan J, Hauber ME, Grim T (2015) Now you see it, now you don’t: flushing hosts prior to experimentation can predict their responses to brood parasitism. Scientific Reports 5: 9060.*
193. Igic B, Fecheyr-Lippens D, Xiao M, Chan A, Hanley D, Brennan PR, Grim T, Waterhouse GI, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2015) A nanostructural basis for gloss of avian eggshells. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12: 20141210.*
192. Croston R, Hauber ME (2015) A recoverable cost of brood parasitism during the nestling stage of the American robin (Turdus migratorius): implications for the evolution of egg rejection behaviors in a host of the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater). Ethology Ecology & Evolution 27: 42–55.*
191. Aidala Z, Croston R, Schwartz J, Tong L, Hauber ME (2015) The role of egg-nest contrast in the rejection of brood parasitic eggs. Journal of Experimental Biology 218, 1126-1136.*
190. Hanley D, Samas P, Hauber ME, Grim T (2015) Who moved my eggs? An experimental test of the clutch arrangement hypothesis for the rejection of brood parasitic eggs. Animal Cognition 18: 299-305.*
189. Maurer G, Miksik I, Portugal SJ, Hauber ME, Russel D, Cassey P (2014) First light for avian embryos: eggshell thickness and pigmentation mediate variation in development and UV exposure in wild bird eggs. Functional Ecology 29: 209-218.
188. Shaw RC, Feeney WE, Hauber ME (2014) Nest destruction elicits indiscriminate con- vs. heterospecific brood parasitism in a captive bird. Ecology & Evolution 4: 4500-4504.*
187. Portugal S, Maurer G, Thomas GH, Hauber ME, Grim T, Cassey P (2014) Nesting behaviour influences species-specific gas exchange across avian eggshells. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 3326-3332.
186. Hauber ME (2014) Mafia or Farmer? Coevolutionary consequences of retaliation and farming as predatory strategies upon host nests by avian brood parasites. Coevolution 2, doi: 10.1080/23256214.2014.913974.
185. Ortiz-Catedral L, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2014) Haematologic reference ranges of two remnant populations of red-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) in New Zealand. Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 61: 131-136.*
184. Kleindorfer SM, Hoi H, Evans C, Mahr K, Robertson J, Hauber ME, Colombelli-Negrel D (2014) The cost of teaching embryos in superb fairy-wrens. Behavioral Ecology 25: 1131-1135.
183. Moskat C, Zölei A, Ban M, Elek Z, Tong L, Geltsch N, Hauber ME (2014) How to spot a stranger’s egg? A mimicry-specific discordancy effect in the recognition of parasitic eggs. Ethology 120: 616-626.*
182. Ismar MEH, Daniel C, Igic B, Morrison-Whittle P, Ballard G, Millar CD, Fidler A, McGraw KJ, Wakamatsu K, Stephenson BM, Cassey P, Dearborn DC, Hauber ME (2014) Sexual plumage dichromatism in a size monomorphic seabird. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126: 417-428 (with Frontispiece).*
181. Moskat C, Ban M, Hauber ME (2014) Naïve hosts of avian brood parasites accept foreign eggs, whereas older hosts fine-tune foreign egg discrimination during laying. Frontiers in Zoology 11: 45.
180. Portugal SJ, Hauber ME, Maurer G, Stokke BG, Grim T, Cassey P (2014) Early hatching of an avian brood parasite’s embryo cannot be explained by enhanced gaseous exchange across the eggshell. Journal of Zoology 293: 219-226 (with cover).
179. Henger C, Hauber ME (2014) Variation in antiparasitic behaviors of Red-winged Blackbirds in response to simulated Brown-headed Cowbirds. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126: 488–499.*
178. Samas P, Hauber ME, Cassey P, Grim T (2014) Host responses to interspecific brood parasitism: a by-product of adaptations to conspecific parasitism? Frontiers in Zoology 11: 34.
177. Grim T, Samas P, Hauber ME (2014) The repeatability of avian egg ejection behaviors across different temporal scales, breeding stages, female ages and experiences. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 749-759.
176. Baylis SM, de Lisle M, Hauber ME (2014) Inferring maximum lifespan from maximum recorded longevity carries substantial risk of estimation bias. Ecography 37: 770–780.*
175. Croston R, Hauber ME (2014) High repeatability of egg rejection in response to experimental brood parasitism in the American robin (Turdus migratorius). Behaviour 151: 703-718.*
174. Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer SM (2014) Prenatal learning in an Australian songbird: habituation and individual discrimination in superb fairy-wren embryos. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20141154.
173. Machovsky Capuska GE, Hauber ME, Libby E, Amiot C, Raubenheimer D (2014) The contribution of private and public information in foraging by Australasian gannets. Animal Cognition 17: 849-858.*
172. Moskat C, Hauber ME, Elek Z, Gommers M, Ban M, Groenewoud F, Versluijs T, Hoetz CWA, Komdeur J (2014) Foreign egg retention by avian hosts in repeated brood parasitism: why do rejecters accept? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 403-413.
171. Croston R, Hauber ME (2014) Spectral tuning and perceptual differences do not explain the rejection of brood parasitic eggs by American robins (Turdus migratorius). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 351-362.*
170. Galbraith JA, Clout MN, Hauber ME (2014) Nest-site use by an introduced parrot in New Zealand. Emu – Austral Ornithology 114: 97-105.*
169. Hauber ME, Samas P, Anderson MG, Rutila J, Low J, Cassey P, Grim T (2014) Life-history theory predicts host behavioural responses to experimental brood parasitism. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 26: 349-364.*
168. Machovsky-Capuska GE, Hauber ME, Dassis M, Libby E, Wikelski MC, Schuckard R, Melville DS, Cook W, Houston M, Raubenheimer D (2014) Foraging behaviour and habitat use of chick-rearing Australasian Gannets in New Zealand. Journal of Ornithology 155: 379-387.*
167. Ortiz-Catedral L, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2013) Growth and survival of nestlings in a population of red-crowned parakeets (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) free of introduced mammalian nest predators on Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37: 370-378.*
166. Thrimawithana A, Ortiz-Catedral L, Rodrigo A, Hauber ME (2013) Reduced total genetic diversity following translocations? A metapopulation approach. Conservation Genetics 14: 1043-1055.*
165. Aidala Z, Chong N, Anderson MG, Ortiz-Catedral L, Jamieson IG, Briskie JV, Cassey P, Gill BJ, Hauber ME (2013) Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Mohoua, endemic hosts of New Zealand's obligate brood parasitic Long-tailed Cuckoo (Eudynamys taitensis). Journal of Ornithology 154: 1127-1133.*
164. Polacikova L, Takasu F, Stokke BG, Moksnes A, Roskaft E, Cassey P, Hauber ME, Grim T (2013) Egg arrangement in avian clutches covaries with the rejection of foreign eggs. Animal Cognition 16: 819-828.
163. Gill BJ, Hauber ME (2013) Distribution and age-specific plumage states of the long-tailed cuckoo (Eudynamys taitensis). Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 60: 158-170.
162. Allen KR, Hauber ME (2013) Self-referencing and mate choice among college students: epiphenomenon or consistent patterns of preference across populations? Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 7: 163-174.*
161. Hauber ME, Woolley SMN, Cassey P, Theunissen FE (2013) Experience dependence of neural responses to different classes of male songs in the primary auditory forebrain of female songbirds. Behavioural Brain Research 243: 184-190.
160. Mackay JWB, Alexander A, Hauber ME, Murphy EC, Clout MN (2013) Does genetic variation among invasive house mice in New Zealand affect eradication success? New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37: 18-25.*
159. Ban M, Moskat C, Barta Z, Hauber ME (2013) Simultaneous viewing of own and parasitic eggs is not required for foreign egg rejection by a cuckoo host. Behavioral Ecology 24: 1014-1021.
158. Samas P, Grim T, Hauber ME, Cassey P, Weidinger K, Evans KL (2013) Ecological predictors of reduced avian reproductive investment in the southern hemisphere. Ecography 36: 809-818.
157. Wagner GF, Aidala Z, Croston R, Hauber ME (2013) Repeated brood parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) at Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) nesting sites across non-consecutive years. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 125: 389-394.*
156. Anderson MG, Gill BJ, Briskie JV, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2013) Latitudinal differences in the breeding phenology of Grey Warblers covary with the prevalence of parasitism by Shining Bronze-Cuckoos. Emu – Austral Ornithology 113: 187-191.*
155. Aidala Z, Chong N, Anderson MG, Hauber ME (2012) Predicted visual sensitivity for short-wavelength light in the brood parasitic cuckoos of New Zealand. Chinese Birds 3: 295-301 (Special Issue on Brood Parasitism).*
154. Samas P, Polacikova L, Hauber ME, Cassey P, Grim T (2012) Egg rejection behavior and clutch characteristics of the European Greenfinch introduced to New Zealand. Chinese Birds 3: 330-338 (Special Issue on Brood Parasitism).
153. Horton BM, Hauber ME, Maney DL (2012) Morph matters: aggression bias in a polymorphic sparrow. PLoS ONE 7: e48705.
152. Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Robertson J, Sulloway FJ, Hoi H, Griggio M, Evans C, Kleindorfer S (2012) Embryonic learning of vocal passwords in superb fairy-wrens reveals intruder cuckoo nestlings. Current Biology 22: 2155-2160 (Faculty of 1000: 3rd most viewed article in Ecology).
151. Henger C, Wallace SB, Hauber ME (2012) Comparison of two field data collection methods in recording avian behavior. Kingbird 62: 198-211.*
150. Machovsky Capuska GE, Howland HC, Raubenheimer D, Vaugh R, Wursig B, Hauber ME, Katzir G (2012) Visual accommodation and active pursuit of prey underwater in a plunge diving bird: the Australasian gannet. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 4118-4125 (with cover).*
149. Massaro M, Ortiz-Catedral L, Julian L, Galbraith JA, Kurenbach B, Kearvell J, Kemp J, van Hal J, Elkington S, Taylor G, Greene T, van de Wetering J, van de Wetering M, Pryde M, Dilks P, Heber S, Steeves TE, Walters M, Shaw S, Potter J, Farrant M, Brunton DH, Hauber ME, Jackson B, Bell P, Moorhouse R, McInnes K, Varsani A (2012) Molecular characterisation of beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) in New Zealand and its implications for managing an infectious disease. Archives of Virology 157: 1651-1663.*
148. Gill BJ, Hauber ME (2012) Piecing together the epic transoceanic migration of the long-tailed cuckoo Eudynamys taitensis (Aves: Cuculidae): an analysis of museum and sighting records. Emu – Austral Ornithology 112: 326-332.
147. Krull CR, Ranjard L, Landers TJ, Ismar SMH, Matthews JL, Hauber ME (2012) Analyses of sex and individual differences in vocalizations of Australasian gannets using a dynamic time warping algorithm. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132: 1189–1198.*
146. Cassey P, Miksik I, Portugal SJ, Maurer G, Ewen JG, Zarate E, Sewell MA, Karadas F, Grim T, Hauber ME (2012) Avian eggshell pigments are not consistently correlated with colour measurements or egg constituents in two Turdus thrushes. Journal of Avian Biology 43: 503–512.
145. Cassey P, Thomas GH, Portugal SJ, Maurer G, Hauber ME, Grim T, Lovell PG, Miksik I (2012) Why are birds’ eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments covary with life history and nesting ecology among British birds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 657-672.
144. Geltsch N, Hauber ME, Anderson MG, Ban M, Moskat C (2012) Competition with a host nestling for parental provisioning imposes recoverable costs on parasitic cuckoo chick's growth. Behavioural Processes 90: 378– 383.*
143. Hargitai R, Costantini D, Moskat C, Ban M, Muriel J, Hauber ME (2012) Variation in plasma oxidative status and testosterone level in relation to eviction effort and age of brood parasitic common cuckoo nestlings. Condor 114: 782-791 (with cover).
142. Hauber ME, Strausberger BM, Feldheim KA, Lock J, Cassey P (2012) Indirect estimates of breeding and natal philopatry in an obligate avian brood parasite. Journal of Ornithology 153: 467–475.*
141. Croston R, Tonra CM, Heath SK, Hauber ME (2012) Flange color differences of brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds from nests of two host species. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124: 139-145.*
140. Lock J, Hauber ME (2012) A predation risk-and-avoidance model of nestling responses to parental vocalizations. Evolutionary Ecology Research 14: 235–245.*
139. Aidala Z, Huynen L, Brennan PLR, Musser J, Fidler A, Chong N, Machovsky Capuska GE, Anderson MG, Talaba A, Lambert D, Hauber ME (2012) Ultraviolet visual sensitivity in three avian lineages: paleognaths, parrots, and passerines. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 198: 495-510 (with Erratum DOI 10.1007/s00359-012-0752-z).*
138. Zolei A, Hauber ME, Geltsch N, Moskat C (2012) Asymmetrical signal content of egg shape as predictor of egg rejection by great reed warblers, hosts of the common cuckoo. Behaviour 149: 391-406.
137. Shaw RC, Hauber ME (2012) Linking nest predation with brood parasitism in captive zebra finches: a multi-pair study. Journal of Ethology 30: 255-262.*
136. de la Colina MA, Pompilio L, Hauber ME, Reboreda JC, Mahler B (2012) Different recognition cues reveal the decision rules used for egg rejection by hosts of a variably mimetic avian brood parasite. Animal Cognition 15: 881-889.*
135. Hickey AJR, Jullig M, Phillips A, Hauber ME, Loomes K (2012) Birds and longevity: Does flight driven aerobicity provide an oxidative sink? Ageing Research Reviews 11: 242-253.
134. Igic B, Cassey P, Grim T, Greenwood DR, Moskat C, Rutila J, Hauber ME (2012) A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 1068-1076.*
133. Baylis SM, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2012) Capsaicin as a deterrent against introduced mammalian predators. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124: 518-524.*
132. Cassey P, Hauber ME, Maurer G, Ewen JG (2012) Sources of variation in reflectance spectrophotometric data: a quantitative analysis using avian eggshell colours. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3: 450-456.
131. Landers TJ, Dennis TE, Hauber ME (2011) Gender assignment of Westland Petrels (Procellaria westlandica) using linear discriminant function analysis. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123: 720-725.*
130. Landers TJ, Bannock CA, Hauber ME (2011) Dynamics of behavioural rhythms in a colonial, nocturnal, burrowing seabird: a comparison across different temporal scales. Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 58: 81-89.*
129. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Steeves TE, Lawrence HA, Thompson DR, Sagar PM, Bury SJ, Landers TJ, Phillips RA, Ranjard L, Shaffer SA (2011) Contemporary and historical separation of transequatorial migration between genetically distinct seabird populations. Nature Communications 2: 232.*
128. Igic B, Braganza K, Hyland MM, Silyn-Roberts H, Cassey P, Grim T, Rutila J, Moskat C, Hauber ME (2011) Alternative mechanisms of increased eggshell hardness of avian brood parasites relative to host species. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8: 1654-1664.*
127. Galbraith JA, Fraser EA, Clout MN, Hauber ME (2011) Survey duration and season influence the detection of introduced eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38: 223-235.*
126. Neate H, Dowding JE, Parker K, Hauber ME (2011) Breeding success of northern New Zealand dotterels (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) following mammal eradication on Motuihe Island, New Zealand. Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 58: 17-21.*
125. Samas P, Hauber ME, Cassey P, Grim T (2011) Repeatability of foreign egg rejection: testing the assumptions of co-evolutionary theory. Ethology 117: 606-619.
124. Polacikova L, Hauber ME, Prochazka P, Cassey P, Honza M, Grim T (2011) A sum of its parts? Relative contributions of different eggshell regions to intraclutch variation in birds. Journal of Avian Biology 42: 370-373.
123. Curtin P, Hauber ME, Moller P (2011) Factors influencing mutual gaze in captive female Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Journal of Ethology 29: 487-491.*
122. Nakagawa S, Hauber ME (2011) Great challenges with few subjects: statistical strategies for neuroscientists. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 35: 462-473.
121. Landers TJ, Rayner ME, Phillips RA, Hauber ME (2011) Dynamics of seasonal movements by a trans-pacific migrant seabird, the Westland petrel. Condor 113: 71-79 (with cover).*
120. Ismar SMH, Phillips RA, Rayner MJ, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2011) Geolocation tracking of the annual migration of adult Australasian Gannets (Morus serrator) breeding in New Zealand. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123: 121-125.*
119. Ismar SMH, Chong NL, Igic B, Baird K, Ortiz-Catedral L, Fidler AE, Hauber ME (2010) Visual sensitivity, coloration and morphology of red-tailed tropicbirds Phaeton rubricauda breeding on the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38: 29-42 (with cover).*
118. Ismar SMH, Baird K, Patel S, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2010) Morphology of the recently re-classified Tasman Booby Sula dactylatra tasmani breeding on the Kermadec Islands. Marine Ornithology 38: 105-109 (with cover).*
117. Aidala Z, Hauber ME (2010) Avian egg coloration and visual ecology. Nature Education Knowledge 1: 4.*
116. Richardson K, Ewen JG, Armstrong DP, Hauber ME (2010) Sex-specific shifts in natal dispersal dynamics in a reintroduced hihi population. Behaviour 147: 1517-1532 (Special Issue on Dispersal and Sociality).*
115. Croston R, Hauber ME (2010) The ecology of avian brood parasitism. Nature Education Knowledge 1: 3.*
114. Ranjard L, Anderson MG, Rayner MJ, Payne RB, McLean IG, Briskie JV, Ross HA, Brunton DH, Woolley SMN, Hauber ME (2010) Bioacoustic distances between the begging calls of brood parasites and their host species: a comparison of bioacoustic techniques. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 1915-1926.*
113. Cassey P, Maurer G, Duval C, Ewen JG, Hauber ME (2010) Differential impacts of time since collection on eggshell colour components relevant to perceptual modeling in museum collections of song thrush (Turdus philomelos) eggs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 1711–1720.
112. Krull CR, Hauber ME (2010) Two voice system found in the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator). Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 57: 162-165.*
111. Igic B, Hauber ME, Galbraith JA, Grim T, Dearborn DC, Brennan PLR, Moskat C, Choudary PK, Cassey P (2010) Comparison of micrometer- and scanning electron microscope-based measurements of avian eggshell thickness. Journal of Field Ornithology 81: 402-410.*
110. Cassey P, Portugal SJ, Ewen JG, Boulton RL, Hauber ME, Blackburn TM (2010) Variability in eggshell colour: a comparative study of museum eggshells. PLoS ONE 5: e12054.
109. Sorenson MD, Hauber ME, Derrickson SR (2010) Sexual imprinting misguides species recognition in a facultative interspecific brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 277: 3079-3085.
108. Safran RJ, Vitousek MN, Hauber ME, Ghalambor CK (2010) Sexual selection: a dynamic state of affairs. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 429-430.
107. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Phillips RA (2010) Testing predictions of dual foraging theory in a unimodal species: foraging trip characteristics, diet, and provisioning behavior in the Cook’s petrel Pterodroma cookii. Marine Biology 157: 2187-2194.*
106. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2010) Chick loss from mixed broods reflects severe nestmate competition between an evictor brood parasite and its hosts. Behavioural Processes 83: 311-314.
105. Hauber ME, Campbell DLM, Woolley SMN (2010) Functional role and female perception of male song in zebra finches. Emu – Austral Ornithology 110: 209-218 (Special Issue Honouring Richard Zann).*
104. Moskat C, Ban M, Szekely T, Komdeur J, Lucassen RWG, van Boheemen L, Hauber ME (2010) Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 1976-1983.
103. Hubbard JK, Uy AC, Hauber ME, Hoekstra HE, Safran RJ (2010) Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function. Trends in Genetics 26: 231-239 (with cover).
102. Anderson MG, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2010) Reliable information content and ontogenetic shift in begging calls of Grey Warbler nestlings. Ethology 116: 357-365.*
101. Parker KA, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2010) Contemporary cultural evolution of a conspecific recognition signal following serial translocations. Evolution 64: 2431-2441.
100. Rayner MJ, Carraher CJF, Clout MN, Hauber ME (2010) Phylogeographic isolation in two distant New Zealand Cook’s petrel (Pterodroma cookii) populations. Conservation Genetics 11: 2073–2077.*
99. Ismar SMH, Hunter C, Lay K, Ward-Smith T, Wilson PR, Hauber ME (2010) A virgin flight across the Tasman Sea? Satellite tracking of post-fledging movements in the Australasian gannet Morus serratorbreeding at Cape Kidnappers. Journal of Ornithology 151:755-759.*
98. Igic B, Greenwood DR, Palmer DJ, Cassey P, Gill BJ, Grim T, Brennan PR, Bassett SM, Battley PF, Hauber ME (2010) Detecting pigments from the colourful eggshells of extinct birds. Chemoecology 20: 43-48.*
97. Ortiz-Catedral L, Kurenbach B, Massaro M, McInnes K, Brunton DH, Hauber ME, Martin DP, Varsani A (2010) Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV): a new strain isolated from wild red-fronted parakeets (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) in New Zealand. Archives of Virology 155: 613-620.*
96. Woolley SMN, Hauber ME, Theunissen FE (2010) Developmental experience alters information coding in auditory midbrain and forebrain neurons. Developmental Neurobiology 70: 235-252.
95. Anderson MG, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2010) Species-specificity of grey warbler begging solicitation and alarm calls revealed by nestling responses to playbacks. Animal Behaviour 79: 401-409.*
94. Igic B, Leuschner N, Parker KA, Ismar SMH, Gill BJ, Lovegrove TG, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2010) Size dimorphism and avian-perceived sexual dichromatism in a New Zealand endemic, the whitehead (Mohoua albicilla). Journal of Morphology 271: 697-704 (with cover).*
93. Ismar SMH, Baird K, Favell E, Hauber ME (2010) Patterns of offspring sex-ratio in a re-establishing black-winged petrel population. Emu – Austral Ornithology 110: 104-108.*
92. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2010) Behavioural correlates of female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) responses to multimodal species recognition cues. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 22: 167-181 (winner of 2010-2011 EEE prize for best article published by a young scientist).*
91. Ismar SMH, Daniel C, Stephenson B, Hauber ME (2010) Mate replacement entails a fitness cost for a socially monogamous seabird. Naturwissenschaften 97: 109-113.*
90. Steeves TE, Holdaway RN, Hale ML, McLay E, McAllan IAW, Christian M, Hauber ME, Bunce M (2010) Merging ancient and modern DNA: extinct seabird taxon rediscovered in the North Tasman Sea. Biology Letters 6: 94-97.
89. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2010) Conspecific-only experience during development reduces the strength of heterospecific song discrimination in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): a behavioural test of the optimal acceptance threshold hypothesis. Journal of Ornithology 151: 379-389.*
88. Ortiz-Catedral L, Kearvell JC, Hauber ME, and Brunton DH (2009) Breeding biology of the critically endangered Malherbe’s Parakeet on Maud Island, New Zealand following the release of captive-bred individuals. Australian Journal of Zoology 57: 433-439.*
87. Igic B, Cassey P, Samas P, Grim T, Hauber ME (2009) Cigarette butts form a perceptually cryptic component of Song Thrush Turdus philomelos nests. Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 56: 134-138.*
86. Cassey P, Boulton RL, Ewen JG, Hauber ME (2009) Reduced clutch size is correlated with increased nest predation in exotic Turdus thrushes. Emu - Austral Ornithology 109: 294-299.
85. Krull CR, Parsons S, Hauber ME (2009) The presence of ultrasonic harmonics in the calls of the Rifleman (Acanthisitta chloris). Notornis – Ornithology of the Southern Pacific 56: 158-161.*
84. Anderson MG, Moskat C, Ban M, Grim T, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2009) Egg eviction imposes a recoverable cost of virulence in chicks of a brood parasite. PLoS ONE 4: e7725.*
83. Hauber ME (2009) Does the removal of avian brood parasite eggs increase host productivity? A case study with brown-headed cowbirds Molothrus ater and song sparrows Melospiza melodia near Ithaca, New York, USA. Conservation Evidence 6: 83-88.
82. Ortiz-Catedral L, Ismar SMH, Baird K, Ewen JG, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2009) No evidence of Cambylobacter, Salmonella and Yersinia in free-ranging populations of the red-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 36: 376-383.*
81. Grim T, Rutila J, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2009) The cost of virulence: an experimental study of egg eviction by brood parasitic chicks. Behavioral Ecology 20: 1138-1146.
80. Ortiz-Catedral L, McInnes K, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2009) First report of Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV) in wild Red-crowned Parakeets (Cyanoramphus novaezealandiae) in New Zealand. Emu – Austral Ornithology 109: 244-247.*
79. Ortiz-Catedral L, Ismar SMH, Baird K, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2009) Recolonization of an oceanic volcano by parakeets after eradication of invasive predators. Conservation Evidence 6: 26-30.*
78. Cassey P, Ewen JG, Marshall NJ, Vorobyev M, Blackburn TM, Hauber ME (2009) Are avian eggshell colours effective intraspecific communication signals? A perceptual modeling approach. Ibis – International Journal of Avian Science 151: 689-698 (Top 10 most cited article in 2011).
77. Low J, Burns KC, Hauber ME (2009) Wild number sense in brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds. Ibis – International Journal of Avian Science 151: 775-777.
76. Shaw RC, Hauber ME (2009) Experimental support for the role of nest predation in the evolution of brood parasitism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1354-1358.*
75. Anderson MG, Ross HA, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2009) Begging call matching between a specialist brood parasite and its host: a comparative approach to detect co-evolution. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98: 208-216.*
74. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2009) Disassociation of visual and acoustic conspecific cues decreases discrimination by female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Psychology 123: 310-315.*
73. Moskat C, Hauber ME, Aviles JM, Ban M, Hargitai R, Honza M (2009) Increased host tolerance of multiple cuckoo eggs leads to higher fledging success of the brood parasite. Animal Behaviour 77: 1281-1290.
72. Campbell DLM, Weiner SA, Starks PTB, Hauber ME (2009) Context and control: behavioural ecology experiments in the laboratory. Annales Zoologici Fennici 46: 112-123 (Special Issue on Methods in Ecological Research).*
71. Grodzinski U, Hauber ME, Lotem A (2009) The role of feeding regularity and nestling digestive efficiency in parent-offspring communication: an experimental test. Functional Ecology 23: 569-577.
70. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2009) Cross-fostering diminishes song discrimination in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Animal Cognition 12: 481-490.*
69. Campbell DLM, Shaw RC, Hauber ME (2009) The strength of species recognition in captive female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): a comparison across estrildid heterospecifics. Ethology 115: 23-32.*
68. Grim T, Rutila J, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2009) Experimentally constrained virulence is costly for common cuckoo chicks. Ethology 115: 14-22.
67. Tonra CM, Johnson MD, Heath SK, Hauber ME (2009) Does nesting habitat predict hatch synchrony between brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds Molothrus ater and two host species? Ecography 32: 497-503.
66. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2009) Spatial and behavioural measures of social discrimination by captive male zebra finches: implications of sexual and species differences for recognition research. Behavioural Processes 80: 90-98.*
65. Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME (2008) Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 655-658.
64. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Clout MN, Seldon DS, Van Dijken S, Bury S, Phillips RA (2008) Foraging ecology of the Cook’s petrel Pterodroma cookii during the austral breeding season: a comparison of its two populations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 370: 271–284.*
63. Hauber ME, Sewell MA, Zuk M (2008) Gender genomics and equality. Heredity 101: 395.
62. Cassey P, Honza M, Grim T, Hauber ME (2008) The modeling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours. Biology Letters 4: 515-517.
61. Matthews JL, Ismar SMH, Hauber ME (2008) Seaweed provisioning behaviour confers thermal benefit for nesting Australasian gannets (Morus serrator). Behaviour 145: 1823-1837 (with cover).*
60. Cassey P, Ewen JG, Blackburn TM, Hauber ME, Vorobyev M, Marshall NJ (2008) Maternal investment of yolk carotenoids is not related to eggshell color variation in European thrushes. Naturwissenschaften 95: 713-721.
59. Hauber ME, Moskat C (2008) Shared parental care is costly for nestlings of common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts. Behavioral Ecology 19: 79-86 (with cover).
58. Tonra CM, Hauber ME, Heath SK, Johnson MD (2008) Ecological correlates and sex differences in early development of a generalist brood parasite. Auk 125: 205-213.
57. Fraser EA, Hauber ME (2008) Higher call rates of morepork, Ninox novaeseelandiae, at sites inside an area with ongoing brodifacoum poisoning compared with matched non-managed sites. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35: 1-7 (with cover).*
56. Corfield JR, Wild JM, Hauber ME, Parsons S, Kubke MF (2008) Evolution of brain size in the Palaeognath lineage, with an emphasis on New Zealand ratites. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 71: 87-99 (with cover).
55. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Imber MJ, Stamp RK, Clout MN (2007) Spatial heterogeneity of mesopredator release within an oceanic island system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 20862-20865.* Highlighted by Faculty of 1000.
54. Daniel C, Millar CD, Ismar SMH, Stephenson B, Hauber ME (2007) Evaluating molecular and behavioural sexing methods for the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator). Australian Journal of Zoology 55: 377-382.*
53. Anderson MG, Hauber ME (2007) A recognition-free mechanism for reliable rejection of brood parasites. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 283-286.*
52. Galbraith JA, Sancha SE, Maloney RF, Hauber ME (2007) Alarm responses are maintained during captive rearing in chicks of endangered kaki. Animal Conservation 10: 103-109.*
51. Hauber ME, Woolley SMN, Theunissen FE (2007) Experience-dependence of neural responses to social versus isolate conspecific songs in the forebrain of female Zebra Finches. Journal of Ornithology 148 (Suppl 2): S231-S239.
50. Hoover JP, Hauber ME (2007) Individual patterns of habitat and nest-site use by hosts promote transgenerational transmission of avian brood parasitism status. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 1208-1214.
49. Yeh PJ, Hauber ME, Price TD (2007) Alternative nesting behaviours following colonisation of a novel environment by a passerine bird. Oikos 116: 1473-1480.
48. Rayner MJ, Clout MN, Brunton DH, Imber M, Stamp RK, Hauber ME (2007) Predictive habitat modelling for the population census of a burrowing seabird: a study of the endangered Cook's petrel. Biological Conservation 138: 235-247.*
47. Hauber ME, Cassey P, Woolley SMN, Theunissen FE (2007) Neurophysiological response selectivity for conspecific songs over synthetic sounds in the auditory forebrain of non-singing female songbirds. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 193: 765-774.
46. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Clout MN (2007) Breeding habitat of the Cook’s petrel (Pterodroma cookii) on Little Barrier Island (Hauturu), New Zealand: implications for the conservation of an island endemic. Emu – Austral Ornithology 107: 59-68.*
45. Safran RJ, Hauber ME (2007) Dispatch/Evolutionary Biology: Variation isn’t always sexy. Current Biology 17: R368-R370.
44. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2007) Conflict between egg recognition and egg rejection decisions in common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) hosts. Animal Cognition 10: 377-386.
43. Hauber ME, Kilner RM (2007) Who mimics whom? Communication, co-evolution, and chick mimicry in parasitic finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 497-503 (10 most downloaded article in 2012).
42. Hauber ME (2007) Fame, fortune, and fitness at the Academy Awards. Journal of Ethology 25: 201-204.
41. Hauber ME, Safran RJ (2006) Dispatch/Behavioural Ecology: Promiscuous fathers sire young that recognize true family. Current Biology 16: R797-R800 (with cover).
40. Latif Q, Grenier JL, Heath S, Ballard G, Hauber ME (2006) First evidence of conspecific brood parasitism in Song Sparrows accompanied by egg ejection and discussion of methods sufficient to document these behaviors. Condor 108: 452-458.*
39. Hauber ME, Moskat C, Ban M (2006) Experimental shift in hosts’ acceptance threshold of inaccurate-mimic brood parasite eggs. Biology Letters 2: 177-180.
38. Cassey P, Ewen JG, Karadas F, Hauber ME (2006) Repeatability of laboratory measurements for maternally derived yolk carotenoid concentrations in bird eggs. Australian Journal of Zoology 54: 381-384.
37. Hoover JP, Yasukawa K, Hauber ME (2006) Spatial and temporal structure of avian brood parasitism affects the fitness benefits of egg ejection and nest abandonment. Animal Behaviour 72: 881-890.
36. Hauber ME (2006) A future cost of misdirected parental care for brood parasitic young? Folia Zoologica 55: 367-374.
35. Moskat C, Barta Z, Hauber ME, Honza M (2006) High synchrony of egg laying between common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) and their great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) hosts. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 18: 159-167.
34. Servedio M, Hauber ME (2006) To eject or to abandon? Brood parasite virulence and host clutch sizes interact to influence the fitness payoffs of alternative rejection strategies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 1585-1594. The authors contributed equally to this work.
33. Shawkey MD, Hauber ME, Estep LK, Hill GE (2006) Evolutionary transitions and mechanisms of matte and iridescent plumage coloration in grackles and allies (Icteridae). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 3: 777-786.
32. Hauber ME, Lacey EA (2005) Bateman’s principle in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: the effects of non-breeding alloparents on variability of female and male reproductive success. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45: 903-914.
31. Kilner RM, Madden JR, Hauber ME (2004) Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources. Science 305: 877-879.
30. Hauber ME, Yeh PJ, Roberts JOL (2004) Patterns and coevolutionary consequences of repeated brood parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: S317-S320.
29. Goth A, Hauber ME (2004) Ecological approaches to species recognition in birds through studies of model and non-model species. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41: 823-842. (Special Issue on Recognition Systems).
28. Hauber ME, Ramsey CK (2003) Honesty in host-parasite communication signals: the case for begging by fledgling Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Journal of Avian Biology 34: 339-344.*
27. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2003) Designing and interpreting experimental tests of self-referent phenotype matching. Animal Cognition 6: 69-71.
26. Hauber ME (2003) Hatching asynchrony, nestling competition, and the cost of interspecific brood parasitism. Behavioral Ecology 14: 224-235 (with cover).
25. Hauber ME (2003) Interspecific brood parasitism and the evolution of host clutch sizes. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 559-570.
24. Hauber ME (2003) Lower begging responsiveness of host vs. cowbird nestlings is related to species identity but not to early social experience in parasitized broods. Journal of Comparative Psychology 117: 24-30.
23. Hauber ME (2003) Egg-capping is a cost paid by hosts of interspecific brood parasites. Auk 120: 860-865.
22. Hauber ME, Pilz KM (2003) Yolk testosterone levels are not consistently higher in the eggs of obligate brood parasites than their hosts. American Midland Naturalist 149: 354-362.
21. Hauber ME, Dearborn DC (2003) Parentage without parental care: what to look for in genetic studies of obligate brood-parasitic mating systems. Perspectives in Ornithology. Auk 120: 1-13.
20. Hauber ME (2002) Is reduced clutch size a cost of parental care in Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe)? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 503-509.
19. McGraw KJ, Mackillup EA, Dale J, Hauber ME (2002) Differential effects of nutritional stress during molt on the expression of melanin- and structurally based ornamental plumage coloration. Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 3747-3755.
18. Hauber ME, Pearson H, Reh A, Merges A (2002) Discrimination between host songs by brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Animal Cognition 5: 129-137.*
17. Hauber ME (2002) First contact: conspecific social association and species recognition in brood parasites. Annales Zoologici Fennici 39: 291-305.
16. Hauber ME, Montenegro K (2002) What are the costs of raising a brood parasite? Comparisons of host parental care at parasitized and non-parasitized broods. Etologia 10: 1-9.*
15. Hauber ME (2002) Conspicuous coloration and prey attraction in a stationary predator. Ecological Entomology 27: 686-691.
14. Hauber ME, Russo SA, Sherman PW (2001) A password for species recognition in a brood parasitic bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 1041-1048.*
13. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2001) Self-referent phenotype matching: theoretical possibilities and empirical tests. Trends in Neurosciences 24: 609-616.
12. Hauber ME (2001) Site selection and repeatability in Brown-Headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) parasitism of Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) nests. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 1518-1523.
11. Craig CL, Wolf SG, Davis JLD, Hauber ME, Maas JL (2001) Signal polymorphism in the web-decorating spider Argiope argentata is correlated with reduced survivorship and the presence of stingless bees, its primary prey. Evolution 55: 986-993.
10. Hauber ME, Sherman PW, Paprika D (2000) Self-referent phenotype matching in a brood parasite: the armpit effect in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Animal Cognition 3: 113-117.
9. Hauber ME (2000) Nest predation and cowbird parasitism in Song Sparrows. Journal of Field Ornithology 71: 389-398.
8. Hauber ME, Russo SA (2000) Perch proximity correlates with higher rates of cowbird parasitism of ground nesting Song Sparrows. Wilson Bulletin 112: 150-153.*
7. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2000) The armpit effect in hamster kin recognition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 349-350.
6. Hauber ME, Clayton NS, Kacelnik A, Reboreda JC, DeVoogd TJ (1999) Sexual dimorphism and species differences in HVC volumes of cowbirds. Behavioral Neuroscience 113: 1095–1099.
5. Hauber ME (1999) Variation in pit size of antlion (Myrmeleon carolinus) larvae: the importance of pit building. Physiological Entomology 24: 37-40.
4. Hauber ME (1998) Single-egg removal from an artificial nest by the Gray Catbird. Wilson Bulletin 110: 426-429.
3. Hauber ME (1998) Tree Swallows raise Brown-headed Cowbird nestling. Kingbird 48: 103-107.
2. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (1998) Nepotism and marmot alarm calling. Animal Behaviour 56: 1049-1052.
1. Hauber ME (1998) Web decorations and alternative foraging tactics of the spider Argiope appensa. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 10: 47-54.
* Articles coauthored with advised students and postdocs.
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404. Merondun J, Marques CI, Andrade P, Meshcheryagina S, Galvan I, Afonso S, Alves JM, Araujo PM, Bachurin G, Balacco J, Ban M, Fedrigo O, Formenti G, Fossoy F, Fulop A, Golovatin M, Granja S, Hewson C, Honza M, Howe K, Larson G, Marton A, Moskat C, Mountcastle J, Prochazka P, Redkin Y, Sims Y, Sulc M, Tracey A, Wood JMD, Jarvis ED, Hauber ME, Carneiro M, Wolf JBW (prelim accepted) Evolution and genetic architecture of sex-limited polymorphism in cuckoos. Science Advances.
403. Antonson ND, Enos JK, Lawson SL, Uy FMK, Gill SA, Lynch KS, Hauber ME (in press) Functional neurogenomic responses to acoustic threats, including a heterospecific referential alarm call and its referent, in the auditory forebrain of red-winged blackbirds. Scientific Reports.
402. Enos JK, Lawson SL, Hauber ME (in press) Invasive shrub species as nest substrates do not appear to impact nest failure for Yellow Warblers (Setophaga petechia). Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
401. Medina-Garcia A, Scherner E, McDermott MT, Hauber ME, Safran RJ (in press) Colonial breeding impacts potentially fitness-relevant cognitive processes in barn swallows. Animal Cognition.
400. Hauber ME, Nagy J, Sheard C, Antonson ND, Street SE, Healy SD, Lala KN, Mainwaring MC (2024) Nest architecture influences host use by avian brood parasites and is shaped by coevolutionary dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 291: 20231734.*
399. Kleindorfer S, Brouwer L, Hauber ME, Teunissen N, Peters A, Louter M, Webster MS, Katsis A, Sulloway FJ, Common LK, Austin VI, Colombelli-Negrel D (2024) Nestling begging calls resemble maternal vocal signatures when mothers call slowly to embryos. American Naturalist (online).
398. Chamberlain M, Kacelnik A, Bush A, Hauber ME (2024) A systematic review of methodologies for studying behavioral imprinting. Ethology 130: e13416.*
397. Fernandez-Duque F, Miller ET, Fernandez-Duque M, Falk J, Venable G, Rabinowicz S, Becker CD, Hauber ME (2024) Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud-forest hummingbird guild. Ethology 130: e13410.*
396. Williams HJ, Sridhar VH, Hurme E, Gall GEC, Borrego N, Finerty GE, Couzin I, Galizia CG, Dominy NJ, Rowland HM, Hauber ME, Higham JP, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Melin AD (2023) Sensory collectives in natural systems. eLife 12: e88028.
395. Nagy J, Fulmer AG, Loki V, Ruiz-Raya F, Hauber ME (2023) Biogeographic history, egg colouration, and habitat selection in Turdus thrushes (Aves: Turdidae). Biologia Futura https://doi.org/10.1007/s42977-023-00191-2.
394. Dominguez JS, Hauber ME, Tarwater CE, Williams E, MacDonald S, Strejc B, Pollock HS (2023) Following the Feeder: A global synthesis of disturbance-based foraging associations of birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 2263-2279.*
393. Dominguez JS, Rakovic M, Li D, Pollock HS, Lawson S, Novcic I, Su X, Zeng Q, Al-Dhufari R, Johnson-Cadle, Boldrick J, Chamberlain M, Hauber ME (2023) What’s the rumpus? Resident temperate forest birds approach an unfamiliar neotropical alarm call across three continents. Biology Letters 19: 20230332.*
392. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2023) On the sparrowhawk-like calls of female common cuckoos: testing for heterospecific vocal mimicry and a conspecific functional context. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77: 111.
391. Xu K, Servedio MR, Winnicki SK, Moskat C, Hoover JP, Turner AM, Hauber ME (2023) Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg-mimicry and narrower anti-parasitic egg-rejection thresholds. Evolution Letters 7: 413-421.*
390. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Fernandez-Duque F, Kleindorfer S, Ward MP, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2023) Absence of referential alarm calls in long-term allopatry from the referent: A case study with Galapagos yellow warblers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 77: 99.*
389. Fernandez-Duque F, Huerta EY, Lawson SL, Chikoti S, Hauber ME (2023). Nest integration: A novel form of food acquisition by altricial fledglings. Evolutionary Ecology 37: 859-869 (with cover).*
388. Enos J, Smith EB, Ward MP, Swaddle JP, Hauber ME (2023) Increasing perceived predation risk through playbacks reduces Red-winged Blackbird abundance in agriculture late in the breeding season. Ornithological Applications 125: Early Online.*
387. Di Giovanni AJ, Villa J, Stanback M, Thompson CF, Sakaluk S, Hauber ME, Hanley D (2023) Decision rules for egg color-based rejection by two cavity-nesting hosts of the brown-headed cowbird. Journal of Experimental Biology 226, jeb245188.*
386. Katsis AC, Common LK, Hauber ME, Colombelli-Negrel D, Kleindorfer S (2023) From nestling to adult: Personality traits are consistent within but not across life stages in a wild songbird. Behaviour 160: 701–734.
385. Turner AM, Sluis VN, Williams EJ, Benson TJ, Ward MP, Hauber ME (2023) Examining causes and characteristics of egg ejection behaviour in the American Robin (Turdus migratorius). Behaviour 160: 617-633.*
384. Enos JK, Ducay R, Paitz RT, Ward MP, Hauber ME (2023) Female red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) do not alter nest site selection, maternal programming, or hormone-mediated maternal effects in response to perceived nest predation or brood parasitism risk. General and Comparative Endocrinology 341: 114322.*
383. Mainwaring MC, Stoddard MC, Barber I, Deeming DC, Hauber ME (2023) The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 378: 20220136 (with cover).
382. Mainwairing MC, Medina I, Tobalske BW, Hartley IR, Varicchio DJ, Hauber ME (2023) The evolution of nest site use and nest architecture in modern birds and their ancestors. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B 378: 20220143.
381. Rivera M, Edwards JA, Hauber ME, Woolley SMN (2023) Machine learning and statistical classification of birdsong link vocal acoustic features with phylogeny. Scientific Reports 13: 7076.*
380. Crudele I, Hauber ME, Reboreda JC, Fiorini VD (2023) Gradual changes in model shape affect egg-directed behaviors by parasitic shiny cowbirds Molothrus bonariensis in captivity. Royal Society Open Science 10: 221477.
379. Schmitz Ornes A, Ducay RL, Fulmer AG, Hauber ME (2023) Coloniality and development impact intraclutch consistency of avian eggs: a comparative analysis of the individual repeatability of eggshell size and shape metrics. The Science of Nature 110: 12.*
378. Moskat C, Elek Z, Hauber ME (2023) Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: a sequential playback study. Behavioural Processes 206: 104840.
377. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2023) Red-winged blackbirds nesting nearer to yellow warbler and conspecific nests experience less brood parasitism. Ecology & Evolution 13: e9818.*
376. Eliason CM, Cooper JC, Hackett SJ, Zahnle E, Pequeno Saco TZ, Maddox JD, Hains T, Hauber ME, Bates JM (2023) Interspecific hybridization explains rapid gorget color divergence in Heliodoxa hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae). Royal Society Open Science 10: 221603.
375. Abolins-Abols M, Peterson M, Studer B, Hale M, Hanley D, Bentley G, Hauber ME (2023) Patterns of stress response to foreign eggs by a rejecter host of an obligate avian brood parasite. Ecology & Evolution 13: e9691.*
374. Novcic I, Mlakar Medved M, Vidovic Z, Hauber ME (2023) Black-headed gulls synchronize vigilance with their nearest neighbor irrespective of the neighbor’s relative position. Ethology 129:146-155.
373. Choi S, Hauber ME, Legendre LJ, Kim N-H, Lee Y-N, Varricchio DJ (2023) Microstructural and crystallographic evolution of palaeognath (Aves) eggshells. eLife 11: e81092.
372. Jones TM, Di Giovanni AJ, Hauber ME, Ward MP (2023) Ontogenetic effects of brood parasitism by the Brown-headed Cowbird on host offspring. Ecology 104: e3925.
371. Turner AM, Di Giovanni AJ, Antonson ND, Scharf HM, Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2022) Non-invasive elevation of circulating corticosterone increases the rejection of foreign eggs in female American robins (Turdus migratorius). Hormones and Behavior 146: 105278.*
370. Turner AM, Hauber ME, Reichard DG (2022) Twenty-two years of brood parasitism data do not support the mafia hypothesis in an accepter host of the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater). Journal of Field Ornithology 93(4):4.*
369. Antonson ND, Hauber ME, Schelsky WM, Scharf HM, Bullock L, Viverette C, Pirro S, Boves TJ (2022) The complete genome sequence of Protonotaria citrea, the Prothonotary Warbler. Biodiversity Genomes 10.56179/001c.38920 .*
368. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2022) Quantitative analysis of vocalisation types in male common cuckoos' "gowk" call complex. Zoology 154: 126043 (with cover).
367. Antonson ND, Schelsky WM, Tolman D, Kilner RM, Hauber ME (2022) Niche construction through a Goldilocks principle maximizes fitness for a nest-sharing brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 289: 20221223.* Highlighted by FacultyOpinions.
366. Luro AB, Hauber ME (2022) Pressure for rapid and accurate mate recognition promotes avian-perceived plumage sexual dichromatism in true thrushes (genus: Turdus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 35: 1558-1567.*
365. Kennerley JA, Somveille M, Hauber ME, Richardson NM, Manica A, Feeney WE (2022) The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite-host relationships. Ecology Letters 25: 1889-1904.
364. Novcic I, Vidovic Z, Hauber ME (2022) Nonrandom pattern of vigilance by preening black-headed gulls. Behaviour 159: 1101-1114.
363. Fulmer AG, Hauber ME (2022) A review of the cues used for rejecting foreign eggs from the nest by the Eurasian blackbird Turdus merula. Ecology & Evolution 12: e8886.*
362. Suckow NM, Pollock HS, Hauber ME, Kastner M, Savidge JA, Baker K, HS Rogers (2022) Nest defense, personality, and fitness of a locally endangered island passerine. Ethology 128: 499-507.*
361. Scharf HM, Hauber ME, Stenstrom KH, Schelsky WM (2022) Should I stay or should I go: The effect of avian brood parasitism on host fledging dynamics. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 76: 64.*
360. Burns-Cusato M, Rana A, Hawkins W, Young Z, Hauber ME (2022) Egg burial in the ringneck dove (Streptopelia risoria): a potential laboratory model system for egg rejection research? Journal of Comparative Psychology 136: 189-193.
359. Jones TM, Benson TJ, Hauber ME, Ward MP (2022) Host-community wide patterns of post-fledging behavior and survival of obligate brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds. Oecologia 198: 981-993.
358. Turner AM, DiGiovanni AJ, Hoover JP, Hauber ME (2022) Eggshell texture but not odor treatment affects model egg rejection in American robins (Turdus migratorius). Animal Cognition (online).*
357. Scharf HM, Schelsky WM, Chamberlain ML, Hauber ME (2022) Host parent responses to heterospecific parasite nestling alarm calls are independent of past and current experience with experimental brood parasitism. Animal Cognition (online).*
356. Hauber ME, Riehl CR, Nagy J (2022) Clutch size and the rejection of parasitic eggs: a comparative test of the maternal investment hypothesis. Evolutionary Ecology 36: 263-272.
355. Goodson DJ, van Riper CJ, Andrade R, Cebrian-Piqueras MA, Hauber ME (2022) Perceived inclusivity and trust in protected area management decisions among stakeholders in Alaska. People and Nature 4: 758-772.*
354. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2022) Syntax errors do not disrupt acoustic communication in the common cuckoo. Scientific Reports 12: 1568.
353. Magory Cohen T, Hauber ME, Akriotis T, Crochet P-A, Karris G, Kirschel ANG, Khoury F, Menchetti M, Mori E, Per E, Reino L, Saavedra S, Santana J, Dor R (2022) Accelerated avian invasion into the Mediterranean region endangers biodiversity and mandates international collaboration. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 1440-1455.
352. Gandia KM, Cappa F, Baracchi D, Hauber ME, Beani L, Uy FMK (2022) Caste, sex, and parasitism influence brain plasticity in a social wasp. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 803437.
351. Raby CL, Cusick JA, Furtbauer I, Graham KE, Habig B, Hauber ME, Madden JR, Strauss A, Fernandez-Juricic E (2022) An inclusive venue to present and discuss behavioural biology research: the first global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference. Animal Behaviour 187: 191-207.
350. Winnicki SK, Hauber ME, Benson TJ, Abolins-Abols M (2022) Nature Notes: Ground-nesting by arboreal American robins (Turdus migratorius). Ecology and Evolution 12: e8489.*
349. Enos JK, Hauber ME, Aidala Z (2022) Delayed timing of breeding attempts, but not time lost to nest construction, reduces the cumulative annual reproductive output of the Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe). Avian Biology Research 15: 34-40.*
348. Stenstrom K, Voss HU, Tokarev K, Phan ML, Hauber ME (2022) Direction of response selectivity between conspecific and heterospecific auditory stimuli varies with response metric. Behavioural Brain Research 416: 113534.*
347. Thompson CF, Hodges KE, Mortimer NT, Vrailas-Mortimer AD, Sakaluk SK, Hauber ME (2022) Avian eggshell coloration predicts shell-matrix protoporphyrin content. Canadian Journal of Zoology 100: 77-81.
346. Rozanksi AN, Cini A, Lopreto TE, Gandia KM, Hauber ME, Cervo R, Uy FMK (2022) Differential investment in visual and olfactory brain regions is linked to the sensory needs of a wasp social parasite and its host. Journal of Comparative Neurology 570: 756-767.
345. Watzek J, Hauber E, Jack KM, Murrell JR, Tecot SR, Brosnan SF (2021) Modelling collective decision-making: insights into collective anti-predator behaviors from an agent-based approach. Behavioural Processes 193: 104530.
344. McClelland SC, Reynolds M, Cordall M, Hauber ME, Goymann W, McClean LA, Hamama S, Lund J, Dixit T, Louder MIM, Safari I, Honza M, Spottiswoode CN, Portugal SJ (2021) Embryo movement is more frequent in obligate avian brood parasites than birds with parental reproductive strategies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288: 20211137.*
343. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2021) Eavesdropping on referential Yellow Warbler alarm calls by Red-winged Blackbirds is mediated by brood parasitism risk. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 706170.* (Special issue on “Evolution and Function of Acoustic and Visual Signals in Avian Brood Parasitism”).
342. McClelland SC, Cassey P, Maurer G, Hauber ME, Portugal SJ (2021). How much calcium to shell out? Eggshell calcium carbonate content is greater in birds with thinner shells, larger clutches and longer lifespans. Journal of the Royal Society Interface: 20210502.
341. Ausprey IJ, Hauber ME (2021) Host and brood parasite coevolutionary interactions covary with comparative patterns of the avian visual system. Biology Letters 17: 20210309.
340. Fischer EK, Hauber ME, Bell AM (2021) Back to the basics? Transcriptomics offer insights into the role of space, time, and the environment for gene expression and behaviour. Biology Letters 17: 20210293.
339. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Wolf CS, Stenstrom K, Winnicki SK, Benson TJ, Hauber ME#, Gill SA# (2021). Referential alarm calling elicits future vigilance in the host of an avian brood parasite. Biology Letters 17: 20210377 (with cover).* #Equal contribution.
338. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2021) Male common cuckoos use a three-note variant of their “cu-coo” call for duetting with conspecific females. Behavioural Processes 191: 104472.
337. Samas P, Hauber ME, Honza M (2021) A meta-analysis of avian eggshell characteristics cueing egg-rejection defenses against brood parasitism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9: 703208. (Special issue on “Evolution and Function of Acoustic and Visual Signals in Avian Brood Parasitism”).
336. Lopez AV, Bolmaro RE, Avalos M, Gerschenson LN, Reboreda JC, Fiorini VD, Tartalini V, Risso P, Hauber ME (2021) How to build a puncture- and breakage-resistant eggshell? Mechanical and structural analyses of avian brood parasites and their hosts. Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb243016.* (Finalist for JEB outstanding paper prize).
335. Novcic I, Krunic S, Golubovic A, Zoric K, Hauber ME (2021) The reliability of measurements of foraging behavior in shorebirds: a comparison of real-time and slow-motion recordings. Waterbirds 44: 68-75.
334. Elek Z, Ban M, Fulop A, Marton A, Hauber ME, Moskat C (2021) Call rate in Common Cuckoos does not predict body size and responses to conspecific playbacks. Journal of Ornithology 162: 1183-1192.
333. Pollock HS, MacDonald SE, Vizentin-Bugoni J, Brawn JD, Sutton ZS, Hauber ME (2021) The Scientific Naturalist: What the pluck? Theft of mammal hair by birds is an overlooked but common behavior with fitness implications. Ecology 102: e03501.*
332. Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Griffith SC (2021) The natural history of model organisms: Neurogenomic insights into the behavior and vocal development of the zebra finch. eLife 10: e61849.*
331. Enos JK, Ward MP, Hauber ME (2021) A review of the scientific evidence on the impact of biologically salient frightening devices to protect crops from avian pests. Crop Protection 148: 105734.*
330. Reiner Brodetzki T, Lotem A, Safran RJ, Hauber ME (2021) Lack of subspecies-recognition in breeding Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica transitiva). Behavioural Processes 189: 104422.
329. Antonson ND, Rivera M, Abolins-Abols M, Kleindorfer S, Liu W-C, Hauber ME (2021) Early acoustic experience alters genome-wide methylation in the auditory forebrain of songbird embryos. Neuroscience Letters 755: 135917.*
328. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Mendes NC, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2021) Responses of female yellow warblers to playbacks signaling brood parasitism and predation risk: A quasi-replication study. Animal Behavior and Cognition 8: 216-230 (Special Issue on Behavioral Replication Studies).*
327. Turner AM, Hauber ME (2021) The American robin (Turdus migratorius): A focal species for anti-parasitic egg rejection studies among hosts of the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater). Ethology 127: 490-503 (Species in the Spotlight Section).*
326. Mainwaring MC, Nagy J, Hauber ME (2021) Sex-specific contributions to nest building in birds. Behavioral Ecology 32: 1075-1085.
325. Clark DL, Hauber ME, Anderson PSL (2021) Nest substrate and tool shape significantly affect the mechanics and energy requirements of avian eggshell puncture. Journal of Experimental Biology 224: jeb238832.*
324. Lopez AV, Reboreda JC, Fiorini VD, Gerschenson LN, Hauber ME (2021) A comparative study of the structural and mechanical properties of avian eggshells amongst hosts of obligate brood parasitic cowbirds (genus Molothrus). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133: 1057–1076.*
323. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Antonson ND, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2021) Do hosts of avian brood parasites discriminate parasitic vs. predatory threats? A meta-analysis. Advances in the Study of Behavior 53: 63-95.*
322. Pollock HS, Hoover JP, Uy FMK, Hauber ME (2021) Brood parasites are a heterogeneous and functionally distinct class of natural enemies. Trends in Parasitology 37: 588-596.*
321. Scharf HM, Hauber ME, Mommer BC, Hoover JP, Schelsky WM (2021) The effect of avian brood parasitism on physiological responses of host nestlings. Oecologia 195: 861-872.*
320. Magory Cohen T, Major RE, Kumar S, Nair M, Ewart KM, Hauber ME, Dor R (2021) Rapid morphological changes as agents of adaptation in introduced populations of the common myna (Acridotheres tristis). Evolutionary Ecology 35: 443-462.
319. Fulmer AG, Hauber ME (2021) Autopreening behavior may convey information about internal social state in Arabian Babbler (Turdoides squamiceps) allopreening dyads. Behaviour 158: 427-446.*
318. Scharf HM, Abolins-Abols M, Stenstrom KH, Tolman DT, Schelsky WM, Hauber ME (2021) Exposure to a mimetic or non-mimetic model avian brood parasite egg does not produce differential glucocorticoid responses in an egg-accepter host species. General and Comparative Endocrinology 304: 113723 (with cover).*
317. Ducay RL, Luro AB, Hansen ES, Hauber ME (2021) Multicomponent shell traits are consistent with an individual recognition function of the appearance of common murre (Uria aalge) eggs: A biological replication study. Ecology and Evolution 11: 2402-2409.*
316. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Mendes NC, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2021) Pairing status moderates both the production of and responses to anti-parasitic referential alarm calls in male yellow warblers. Ethology 127: 385-394.*
315. Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Evans C, Katsis AC, Brouwer L, Adreani NM, Kleindorfer S (2021) Prenatal auditory learning in avian vocal learners and non-learners. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 376: 20200247.
314. Martin LB, Hanson HE, Hauber ME, Ghalambor CK (2021) Genes, environments, and phenotypic plasticity in immunology. Trends in Immunology 42: 198-208.
313. Withers SJ, Parsons S, Hauber ME, Kendrick A, Lavery S (2021). Genetic divergence between isolated populations of the North Island New Zealand Rifleman (Acanthisitta chloris granti) implicates ancient biogeographic impacts rather than recent habitat fragmentation. Ecology & Evolution 11: 5998-6014.*
312. Hauber ME, Winnicki SK, Hoover JP, Hanley D, Hays IR (2021) The limits of egg recognition: Testing acceptance thresholds of American robins in response to decreasingly egg-shaped objects in the nest. Royal Society Open Science 8: 201615 (with cover).*
311. Li D, Hauber ME (2021) Parasitic begging calls of nestmate-evictor common cuckoos stimulate more parental provisions by red-winged blackbirds than calls of nest-sharing brown-headed cowbirds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75: 11.
310. Moskat C, Taylor DM, Hauber ME (2021) Effective conspecific communication with aberrant calls in the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 75: 7.*
309. Marton A, Fulop A, Ban M, Hauber ME, Moskat C (2021) Female common cuckoo calls dampen the mobbing intensity of great reed warbler hosts. Ethology 127: 286-293 (with cover).
308. Hauber ME, Elek Z, Moskat C (2021) Advancing onset of breeding dates in brood parasitic common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts over a 22-year period. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 33: 553-560.
307. Winnicki SK, Strausberger BM, Antonson ND, Burhans DE, Lock J, Kilpatrick AM, Hauber ME (2021) Developmental asynchrony and host species identity predict variability in nestling growth rates of an obligate brood parasite: a test of the “growth-tuning” hypothesis. Canadian Journal of Zoology 99: 213–220.*
306. Hauber ME, Hoover JP, Rhodes OR, Ducay RL, Hanley D (2021) The blunt pole is not a source of more salient recognition cues than the sharp pole for the rejection of model eggs by American robins (Turdus migratorius). Journal of Vertebrate Biology 70: 20111.*
305. Rutledge S, Carr DE, Hauber ME, Hanley D (2021) Best of a bad job or masters of illusion: do nest light conditions make the eggs of brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater) more similar to the eggs of its hosts? Ethology 127: 117-124.*
304. Hauber ME, Taylor DM, Brawn JD (2021) Variable or atypical? Comparing unusual songs of the Tufted Titmouse with a citizen-science database. Journal of Ornithology 162: 313-316.*
303. Hauber ME (2020) Natural and artificial scents do not increase egg rejection rates of model brood parasitic eggs by American Robins (Turdus migratorius). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 66: 309-317.
302. Luro AB, Fernandez-Juricic E, Baumhardt P, Hauber ME (2020) Visual acuity and egg spatial chromatic contrast predict antiparasitic egg rejection behavior of American robins. Journal of Experimental Biology 223: jeb229609.*
301. Czeisel J, Hauber ME (2020) Seasonal and anthropogenic factors predict breeding success in Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica erythrogaster) in shared greenspace. Kingbird 70: 102-119.*
300. Antonson ND, Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME, Botero CA (2020) Ecological uncertainty favours the diversification of host use in avian brood parasites. Nature Communications 11: 4185.*
299. Feng S, Stiller J, Deng Y, Armstrong J, Fang Q, Reeve AH, Xie D, Chen G, Guo C, Faircloth BC, Petersen B, Wang Z, Zhou Q, Diekhans M, Chen W, Andreu-Sanchez S, Margaryan A, Howard JT, Parent C, Pacheco G, Sinding M-HS, Puetz L, Cavill E, Ribeiro AM, Eckhart L, Fjeldsa J, Hosner PA, Brumfield RT, Christidis L, Bertelsen MF, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Tietze DT, Robertson BC, Song G, Borgia G, Claramunt S, Lovette IJ, Cowen SJ, Njoroge P, Dumbacher JP, Ryder OA , Fuchs J, Bunce M, Burt DW, Cracraft J, Meng G, Hackett SJ, Ryan PG, Jonsson KA, Jamieson IG, da Fonseca RR, Braun EL, Houde P, Mirarab S, Suh A, Stervander M, Hansson B, Sigeman H, Ponnikas S, Sigeman H, Stervander M, Frandsen PB, van der Zwan H, van der Sluis R, Visser C, Balakrishnan C, Clark AG, Fitzpatrick JW, Bowman R, Chen N, Cloutier A, Sackton TB, Edwards SV, Foote DJ, Shakya S, Sheldon FH, Vignal A, Soares AER, Shapiro B, Gonzalez-Solis J, Ferrer-Obiol J, Rozas J, Riutort M, Tigano A, Friesen V, Dalen L, Urrutia AO, Szekely T, Liu Y, Campana MG, Corvelo A, Fleischer RC, Rutherford KM, Gemmell NJ, Dussex N, Mouritsen H, Thiele N, Delmore K, Liedvogel M, Franke A, Hoppner MP, Krone O, Fudickar AM, Mila B, Ketterson ED, Fidler AE, Friis G, Parody-Merino AM, Battley PF, Cox MP, Lima NCB, Prosdocimi F, Parchman TL, Schlinger BA, Loiselle BA, Blake JG, Lim HC, Day LB, Fuxjager MJ, Baldwin MW, Braun MJ, Wirthlin M, Dikow RB, Ryder TB, Camenisch G, Keller LF, DaCosta JM, Hauber ME, Louder MIM, Witt CC, McGuire JA, Mudge J, Megna LC, Carling MD, Wang B, Taylor SA, Del-Rio G, Aleixo A, Vasconcelos ATR, Mello CV, Weir JT, Haussler D, Li Q, Yang H, Wang J, Lei F, Rahbek C, Gilbert MTP, Graves GR, Jarvis ED, Paten B, Zhang G (in press) Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics. Nature 287: 252-257 (with cover).*
298. Hauber ME, Heath SK, Tonra CM (2020) Direct estimates of breeding site fidelity and natal philopatry in brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds Molothrus ater. Ardea 180: (online).
297. Novcic I, Krunic S, Stankovic D, Hauber ME (2020) Duration of ‘peeks’ in ducks: how much time do Pochard Aythya ferina spend with eye open while in sleeping posture? Bird Study 67: 256-260.
296. Antonson ND, Hauber ME, Mommer BC, Hoover JP, Schelsky WM (2020) Physiological responses of host parents to rearing an avian brood parasite: An experimental study. Hormones and Behavior 125: 104812.*
295. Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2020) Endocrine regulation of egg rejection in an avian brood parasite host. Biology Letters 16: 20200225.*
294. Hauber ME, Kim CR, Goethe C, Hanley D (2020) Self-referent phenotype matching is a poor predictor of egg rejection by American Robins. Journal of Field Ornithology 91: 254–262.*
293. Louder MIM, Schelsky WM, Hoover JP, Louder ANA, Hauber ME (2020) A seasonal shift in offspring sex ratio of the brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater). Journal of Avian Biology 51: e02560.*
292. Hauber ME, Abolins-Abols M, Kim CR, Paitz RT (2020) Inter-individual variation in anti-parasitic egg rejection behavior: a test of the maternal investment hypothesis. Integrative Organismal Biology 2: obaa014.*
291. Lawson SL, Leuschner N, Gill BJ, Enos JK, Hauber ME (2020) Loss of graded enemy recognition in a Whitehead population allopatric with brood parasitic Long-tailed Cuckoos. Avocetta Journal of Ornithology 44: 3-10.*
290. Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2020) Proximate predictors of variation in egg rejection behavior by hosts of avian brood parasites. Journal of Comparative Psychology (online).*
289. Moskat C, Hauber ME, Ruzickova J, Martin A, Ban M, Elek Z (2020) Female-female aggression and male responses to the two colour morphs of female common cuckoos. The Science of Nature 107: 28.
288. Enos JK, Hyland-Bruno J, Hauber ME (in press) Aggressive responses of Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) and American Robins (Turdus migratorius) towards brood parasites and nest predators. Wilson Journal of Ornithology.*
287. Scharf HM, Suarez AV, Reeve HK, Hauber ME (2020). The evolution of conspecific acceptance threshold models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 375: 20190475.*
286. Suarez AV, Scharf HM, HK Reeve, Hauber ME (2020) Theme Issue Introduction: Signal detection, acceptance thresholds, and the evolution of animal recognition systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 375: 20190464.*
285. Luro A, Hauber ME (2020) Invited Commentary: The ecological context and fitness impact of categorical perception: a comment on Green et al. Behavioral Ecology 31: 869-870.*
284. Hays I, Ljubcic I, Hauber ME (2020) The shape of avian eggs: Assessment of a novel metric for quantifying eggshell conicality. Auk: Ornithological Advances 137: ukaa021.*
283. Lawson SL, Enos JK, Mendes NC, Gill SA, Hauber ME (2020) Heterospecific eavesdropping on an anti-parasitic referential alarm call. Communications Biology 3: 143.*
282. Hanson HE, Mathews NS, Hauber ME, Martin LB (2020) The natural history of model organisms: the house sparrow in the service of basic and applied biology. eLife 9: e52803.
281. Luro A, Hauber ME (2020) Avian diet and foraging ecology constrain foreign egg recognition and rejection. Avian Biology Research 13: 24-31.*
280. Louder MIM, Lafayette M, Louder AA, Uy FMK, Balakrishnan CN, Yasukawa K, Hauber ME (2020) Shared transcriptional responses to con- and heterospecific behavioral antagonists in a wild songbird. Scientific Reports 10: 4092.*
279. Magory Cohen T, Kumar S, Nair M, Hauber ME, Dor R (2020) Innovation and decreased neophobia drive invasion success in a widespread avian invader. Animal Behaviour 163: 61-72.
278. Ismar-Rebitz SMH , Daniel C, Stephenson BM, Raubenheimer D, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2020) Sex-specific reproductive benefits of early arrival to the breeding colony in a seabird. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132: 29-38.*
277. Manna TJ, Hanley D, Honza M, Capek M, Rutila J, Samas P, Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2020) Fitting different visual models to behavioral patterns of parasitic egg rejection along a natural egg color gradient in a cavity-nesting host species. Vision Research 167: 54-59.*
276. Louder MIM, Balakrishnan CN, Louder ANA, Driver RJ, London SE, Hauber ME (2019) An acoustic password enhances auditory learning in juvenile brood parasitic cowbirds. Current Biology 29: 4045-4051.*
275. Hauber ME, Dainson M, Luro A, Louder AA, Hanley D (2019) When are egg rejection cues perceived? A test using thermochromic eggs in an avian brood parasite host. Animal Cognition 22:1141–1148.*
274. Louder MIM, Hauber ME, Louder ANA, Hoover JP, Schelsky WM (2019) Greater opportunities for sexual selection in male than in female obligate brood parasitic birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32: 1310-1315 (with cover).*
273. Nagy J, Hauber ME, Hartley IR, Mainwaring MC (2019) Correlated evolution of nest and egg characteristics in birds. Animal Behaviour 158: 211-225.
272. Scharf HM, Stenstrom K, Dainson M, Benson TJ, Fernandez-Juricic E, Hauber ME (2019) Mimicry-dependent lateralization in the visual inspection of foreign eggs by American robins. Biology Letters 15: 20190351.*
271. Abolins-Abols M, Hanley D, Moskat C, Grim T, Hauber ME (2019) Anti-parasitic egg rejection by great reed warblers (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) tracks differences along an eggshell color gradient. Behavioural Processes 166: 103902.*
270. Louder MIM, Lawson S, Lynch K, Balakrishnan CN, Hauber ME (2019) Neural mechanisms of auditory species recognition in birds. Biological Reviews 94: 1619-1635.*
269. Hauber ME, Bond AL, Kouwenberg A-L, Robertson GJ, Hansen EJ, Holford M, Dainson M, Luro A, Dale J (2019) The chemical basis of a signal of individual identity: shell pigment concentrations track the unique appearance of Common Murre eggs. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16: 20190115.*
268. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2019) Sex-specific responses to simulated territorial intrusions in the common cuckoo: a dual function of female acoustic signaling. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 60.
267. Mackay JWB, Russell JC, Murphy EC, Clout MN, Hauber ME (2019) See how they run: increased ranging behavior counters potential Allee effects in experimentally introduced house mice on an island. Biological Invasions 21:1669-1681.*
266. Hanley D, Gern K, Hauber ME, Grim T (2019) Host responses to foreign eggs across the avian visual color space. American Naturalist 194: 17-27.*
265. Hanley D, Lopez AV, Fiorini VD, Reboreda JC, Grim T, Hauber ME (2019) Variation in multicomponent recognition cues alters egg rejection decisions: a test of the optimal acceptance threshold hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 374: 20180195.* (Faculty of 1000 Prime Recommended).
264. Moskat C, Ban M, Fulop A, Bereczki J, Hauber ME (2019) Bimodal habitat use in brood parasitic Common Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) revealed by GPS telemetry. Auk: Ornithological Advances 136: 1-12.
263. Rivera M, Cealie M, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer S, Liu W (2019) Neural activation in response to conspecific songs in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) embryos and nestlings. NeuroReport 30: 217–221.*
262. Hauber ME, Luro A, McCarty CJ, Barateli K, Cassey P, Hansen E, Dale J (2019) Interannual repeatability of eggshell phenotype in individual female Common Murres (Uria aalge). Canadian Journal of Zoology 97: 385-391.*
261. Manna TJ, Moskat C, Tong L, Ban M, Aidala Z, Low J, Hauber ME (2019) Multiple parasitism reduces egg rejection in the host of a mimetic avian brood parasite. Journal of Comparative Psychology 133: 351-358.*
260. Withers S, Armstrong D, Ward-Smith T, Parsons S, Hauber ME (2019) Improved methods for reducing translocation mortality and obtaining reliable population projections for reintroduction of the New Zealand rifleman (Acanthisitta chloris). Bird Conservation International 29: 542-557 (with cover).*
259. Aidala Z, Strausberger B, Hauber ME (2019) Increased Egg-Nest Visual Contrast Does Not Induce Egg Ejection in the Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe), an Accepter Host of the Brood Parasitic Brown-Headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater). Journal of Comparative Psychology 133: 46–55.*
258. Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2018) Invited Commentary: Applying the framework and concepts of parasitology to avian brood parasitism: a comment on Aviles. Behavioral Ecology 29: 520–521.*
257. Kleindorfer S, Evans C, Hauber ME, Colombelli-Negrel D (2018) Could prenatal sound discrimination predict vocal complexity later in life? BMC Zoology 3: 11.
256. Abolins-Abols M, Hauber ME (2018) Host defenses against avian brood parasitism: an endocrine perspective. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 285: 20180980 (with cover).*
255. Dainson M, Mark M, Hossain M, Yoo B, Holford M, McNeil S, Riehl C, Hauber ME (2018) How to make a mimic? Brood parasitic Striped Cuckoo eggs match host shell color but not pigment concentration. Journal of Chemical Ecology 44: 940-946 (with cover).*
254. Masello JF, Martínez J, Calderón L, Wink M, Quillfeldt P, Sanz V, Theuerkauf J, Ortiz-Catedral L, Berkunsky I, Brunton D, Díaz Luque JA, Hauber ME, Ojeda V, Barnaud A, Casalins L, Jackson B, Mijares A, Rosales R, Seixas G, Serafini P, Silva-Iturriza A, Sipinski E, Vásquez R, Widmann P, Widmann I, Merino S (2018): Can the intake of antiparasitic secondary metabolites explain the low prevalence of hemoparasites among wild Psittaciformes? Parasites & Vectors 11: 357.*
253. Katsis AC, Davies MH, Buchanan KL, Kleindorfer S, Hauber ME, Mariette MM (2018) Prenatal exposure to incubation calls affects song learning in the zebra finch. Scientific Reports 8: 15232.
252. Rivera M, Louder MIM, Kleindorfer S, Liu W, Hauber ME (2018) Avian prenatal auditory stimulation: progress and perspectives. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 72: 112.*
251. Hauber ME, Dainson M, Baldassarre DT, Hossain M, Holford M, Riehl C (2018) The perceptual and chemical basis of egg discrimination in communally nesting greater anis Crotophaga major. Journal of Avian Biology 49: e01776 (with cover).*
250. Lynch KS, Louder MIM, Hauber ME (2018) Species-specific auditory forebrain responses to non-learned vocalizations in juvenile blackbirds. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 91: 193-200.*
249. Moskat C, Hauber ME, Ban M, Fulop A, Geltsch N, Marton A, Elek Z (2018) Are both notes of the common cuckoo’s call necessary for familiarity recognition? Behavioural Processes 157: 685-690.*
248. Besel D, Hauber ME, Hunter C, Ward-Smith T, Raubenheimer D, Millar CD, Ismar SMH (2018) Multifactorial roles of interannual variability, season, and sex for foraging patterns in a sexually size monomorphic seabird, the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator). Marine Biology 165: 72.*
247. Hays IR, Hauber ME (2018) How the egg rolls: a morphological analysis of avian egg shape in the context of displacement dynamics. Journal of Experimental Biology 221: jeb.178988.*
246. Louder MIM, Hauber ME, Balakrishnan C (2018) Early social experience alters transcriptomic responses to species-specific song stimuli in female songbirds. Behavioural Brain Research 347: 69-76.*
245. Dinets V, Sokolovskis K, Hanley D, Hauber ME (2018) Striking difference in response to expanding brood parasites by birds of western and eastern Beringia. Journal of Field Ornithology 89: 117–125.*
244. Canniff L, Dainson M, Lopez AV, Hauber ME, Grim T, Samas P, Hanley D (2018) Probing the limits of egg recognition using egg rejection experiments along phenotypic gradients. Journal of Visualized Experiments 138: e57512.*
243. de la Colina MA, Pompilio L, Hauber ME, Reboreda JC, Mahler B (2018) Parasitic egg rejection decisions of chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus are independent of clutch composition. Animal Cognition 21: 301–305.*
242. Luro A, Igic B, Croston R, Lopez AV, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2018) Which egg features predict egg rejection responses in American robins? Replicating Rothstein’s (1982) study. Ecology & Evolution 8: 1673-1679.*
241. Hauber ME, Daniel C, Stephenson BM, Millar DC, Ismar SMH (2018) Genetic mating system of Australasian Gannets (Morus serrator). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 130: 763-770.*
240. Kopp M, Servedio MR, Mendelson TC, Safran RJ, Rodriguez RL, Hauber ME, Scordato EC, Symes LB, Balakrishnan CN, Zonana DM, van Doorn GS (2018) Synthesis: Mechanisms of assortative mating in speciation with gene flow: connecting theory and empirical research. American Naturalist 191: 1-20.
239. Ban M, Moskat C, Fulop A, Hauber ME (2018) Return migration of Common Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) between breeding grounds in Hungary and wintering grounds in Africa as documented by non-PTT GPS technology. Journal of Ornithology 159: 337-344.
238. Dearborn DC, Page SM, Dainson M, Hauber ME, Hanley D (2017) Eggshells as hosts of bacterial communities: an experimental test of the antimicrobial egg coloration hypothesis. Ecology & Evolution 7: 9711–9719.*
237. Dainson M, Hauber ME, Lopez A, Grim T, Hanley D (2017) Does contrast between eggshell ground and spot coloration affect egg rejection? The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) 104: 54.*
236. Cuthill I, Allen W, Arbuckle K, Caspers B, Chaplin G, Hauber ME, Hill GE, Jablonski N, Jiggins C, Kelber A, Mappes J, Marshall J, Merrill R, Osorio D, Prum R, Roberts N, Roulin A, Rowland H, Sherratt T, Skelhorn J, Speed M, Stevens M, s MC, Stuart-Fox D, Talas L, Tibbetts E, Caro (2017) The Biology of Color. Science 357: 470 (eaan0221).
235. Crystal Ornelas R, Lockwood JL, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2017) The establishment threat of the obligate brood-parasitic Pin-tailed Whydah (Vidua macroura) in North America and the Antilles. The Condor: Ornithological Applications 119: 449-458.*
234. Lynch K, Gaglio A, Tyler E, Coculo J, Louder MM, Hauber ME (2017) A neural basis for password-based species recognition in an avian brood parasite. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 2345-2353.*
233. Luro AB, Hauber ME (2017) A test of the nest sanitation hypothesis for the evolution of foreign egg rejection in an avian brood parasite rejecter host species. The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) 104: 14.*
232. Stoddard MC, Hauber ME (2017) Colour, vision and coevolution in avian brood parasitism. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London B 372: 20160339.
231. Hanley D, Grim T, Igic B, Samas P, Lopez AV, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2017) Egg discrimination along a gradient of natural variation in eggshell coloration. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 284: 20162592.*
230. Strausberger BM, Hauber ME (2017) Encounters with adult brood parasitic cowbirds at nests, not costly parasitic eggs, elicit nest desertion by Chipping Sparrows (Spizella passerina). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129: 554-559.
229. Moskat C, Elek Z, Ban M, Geltsch N, Hauber ME (2017) Can common cuckoos discriminate between neighbours and strangers by their calls? Animal Behaviour 126: 253-260.
228. d’Alba L, Torres R, Waterhouse GIN, Eliason C, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2017) What Does the Eggshell Cuticle Do? A Functional Comparison of Avian Eggshell Cuticles. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 90: 588-599.
227. Nelson Slater M, Hauber ME (2017) Olfactory enrichment and scent cue associative learning in captive birds of prey. Zoo Biology 36: 120-126.*
226. Ismar SMH, Raubenheimer D, Bury SJ, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2017) Sex-specific foraging during parental care in a size-monomorphic seabird, the Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129:139-147.*
225. Manna T, Grim T, Cooper C, Baylis S, Waterhouse GIN, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2017) Does the House Sparrow Passer domesticus represent a global model species for egg rejection behavior? Journal of Avian Biology 48: 346–352 (with cover).*
224. Overbeek A, Hauber ME, Brown E, Cleland S, Maloney R, Steeves TE (2017) Evidence for brood parasitism in a critically endangered Charadriiform with implications for conservation. Journal of Ornithology 158: 333-337.
223. Igic B, Hauber ME, Grim T, Prochazka P, Moskat C, Shawkey MD, Honza M (2017) Brood parasite and host eggshells undergo similar levels of decalcification during embryonic development. Journal of Zoology 301: 165-173 (with cover).*
222. Louder MIM, Voss HU, Manna TJ, Carryl SS, London SE, Balakrishnan CN, Hauber ME (2016) Shared neural substrates for song discrimination in parental and parasitic songbirds. Neuroscience Letters 622: 49-54.*
221. Mendelson TC, Fitzpatrick CL, Hauber ME, Pence CH, Rodgriguez RL, Safran RJ, Stern CA, Stevens JR (2016) Cognitive phenotypes and the evolution of animal decisions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 11: 850-859.
220. d’Alba L, Rafael M, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2016) The evolution of eggshell cuticle in relation to nesting ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20160687.
219. Hanley D, Sulc M, Brennan P, Hauber ME, Grim T, Honza M (2016) Dynamic egg colour mimicry. Ecology & Evolution 6: 4192-4202.*
218. Colombelli-Négrel D, Webster MS, Dowling JL, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer S (2016) Vocal imitation of mother's calls by begging Red-backed Fairy-wren nestlings increases parental provisioning. The Auk: Ornithological Advances 133: 273–285.
217. Yasukawa K, Lindsey-Robbins J, Henger CS, Hauber ME (2016) Antiparasitic behaviors of Red-winged Blackbirds in response to simulated Brown-headed Cowbirds: further tests of the frontloaded parasite-defense hypothesis. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128: 475-486 (with frontispiece).*
216. Hebets EA, Barron AB, Balakrishnan C, Hauber ME, Mason P, Hoke K (2016) A systems approach to animal signaling. Proceeding of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20152889.
215. Brulez K, Miksik I, Cooney CR, Hauber ME, Lovell PG, Maurer G, Portugal SJ, Russell D, Reynolds J, Cassey P (2016) Eggshell pigment composition co-varies with phylogeny but neither with life history nor with nesting ecology traits of British passerines. Ecology & Evolution 6: 1637-1645.
214. Ryan A, Hauber ME (2016) Group compositional changes impact the social and feeding behavior of captive hamadryas baboons Papio hamadryas hamadryas. Zoo Biology 35: 137-146.*
213. Fulmer AG, Santema P, Hauber ME (2016) Intrabrood rank, age, and adult presence predict novelty seeking in individual Arabian Babblers, Turdoides squamiceps. Animal Behaviour 114: 93-99.*
212. de la Colina MA, Hauber ME, Strausberger BM, Reboreda JC, Mahler B (2016) Molecular tracking of individual host use in the Shiny Cowbird – a generalist brood parasite. Ecology & Evolution 6: 4684-4696.*
211. Manna TJ, Hauber ME (2016) Recent progress in brood parasitism research among social insects. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 12: 1-5.*
210. Geltsch N, Ban M, Hauber ME, Moskat C (2016) Optimal timing of egg laying by Common Cuckoos Cuculus canorus: when should parasitic eggs be laid to precede the host eggs in hatching? Bird Study 63: 46-51.
209. Fidler AE, Aidala Z, Anderson MG, Ortiz-Catedral L, Hauber ME (2016). Pseudogenisation of the short-wavelength sensitive 1 (SWS1) opsin gene in two New Zealand endemic passerine species: the Yellowhead (Mohoua ochrocephala) and Brown Creeper (M. novaeseelandiae). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128: 159-163.*
208. Fulmer AG, Hauber ME (2016) A siblicidal origin for avian brood parasitism? Journal of Ornithology 157: 219–227.*
207. Larson LR, Hauber ME, Cooper C (2016) Emotions as drivers of wildlife stewardship behavior: Citizen science nest monitors’ responses to invasive house sparrows. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 21: 18-33.
206. Louder MIM, Ward MP, Schelsky WM, Hauber ME, Hoover JP (2015) Out on their own: a test of adult-assisted dispersal in fledgling brood parasites reveals solitary departures from hosts. Animal Behaviour 110: 29-37.*
205. Dinets V, Samas P, Croston R, Grim T, Hauber ME (2015) Predicting the responses of native birds to trans-oceanic invasions by avian brood parasites. Journal of Field Ornithology 86: 244-251.*
204. Verdes A, Cho W, Hossain M, Brennan PLR , Hanley D, Grim T, Hauber ME, Holford M (2015) Nature’s palette: Characterization of shared pigments in colorful avian and mollusk shells. PLoS ONE 10: e0143545.*
203. Hauber ME, Aidala Z, Igic B, Shawkey MD, Moskat C (2015) Experimental shifts in nest-egg contrasts do not predict egg rejection responses in an avian host-parasite system. Animal Cognition 18: 1133-1141.*
202. Igic B, Zarate E, Sewell MA, Moskat C, Cassey P, Rutila J, Grim T, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2015) A comparison of egg yolk lipid constituents between parasitic Common Cuckoos and their hosts. Auk: Ornithological Advances 132: 817–825.*
201. Thomas DB, Hauber ME, Hanley D, Waterhouse GIN, Fraser S, Gordon KC (2015) Analysing avian eggshell pigments with Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Experimental Biology 218, 2670-2674.*
200. Hanley D, Grim T, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2015) Not so colourful after all: eggshell pigments constrain avian eggshell colour space. Biology Letters 11: 20150087.*
199. Igic B, Nunez V, Voss HU, Croston R, Aidala Z, Lopez AV, Van Tatenhove A, Holford ME, Shawkey MD, Hauber ME (2015) Using 3D printed eggs to examine the egg-rejection behaviour of wild birds. PeerJ 3:e965.*
198. Barron AB, Hebets EA, Cleland TA, Fitzpatrick CL, Hauber ME, Stevens J (2015) Embracing multiple definitions of learning. Trends in Neurosciences 38: 405-407.
197. Hauber ME, Tong L, Ban M, Croston R, Grim T, Waterhouse GIN, Shawkey MD, Barron AB, Moskat C (2015) The value of artificial stimuli in behavioral research: making the case for egg rejection studies in avian brood parasitism. Ethology 121: 521-528.*
196. Fecheyr-Lippens DC, Igic B, D'Alba L, Hanley D, Verdes A, Holford ME, Waterhouse GIN, Grim T, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2015) The cuticle modulates ultraviolet reflectance of avian eggshells. Biology Open 4: 753-759.*
195. Croston R, Hauber ME (2015) Experimental shifts in intraclutch egg color variation do not affect egg rejection in a host of a non-egg-mimetic avian brood parasite. PLoS ONE 10: e0121213.*
194. Hanley D, Samas P, Heryan J, Hauber ME, Grim T (2015) Now you see it, now you don’t: flushing hosts prior to experimentation can predict their responses to brood parasitism. Scientific Reports 5: 9060.*
193. Igic B, Fecheyr-Lippens D, Xiao M, Chan A, Hanley D, Brennan PR, Grim T, Waterhouse GI, Hauber ME, Shawkey MD (2015) A nanostructural basis for gloss of avian eggshells. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12: 20141210.*
192. Croston R, Hauber ME (2015) A recoverable cost of brood parasitism during the nestling stage of the American robin (Turdus migratorius): implications for the evolution of egg rejection behaviors in a host of the brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater). Ethology Ecology & Evolution 27: 42–55.*
191. Aidala Z, Croston R, Schwartz J, Tong L, Hauber ME (2015) The role of egg-nest contrast in the rejection of brood parasitic eggs. Journal of Experimental Biology 218, 1126-1136.*
190. Hanley D, Samas P, Hauber ME, Grim T (2015) Who moved my eggs? An experimental test of the clutch arrangement hypothesis for the rejection of brood parasitic eggs. Animal Cognition 18: 299-305.*
189. Maurer G, Miksik I, Portugal SJ, Hauber ME, Russel D, Cassey P (2014) First light for avian embryos: eggshell thickness and pigmentation mediate variation in development and UV exposure in wild bird eggs. Functional Ecology 29: 209-218.
188. Shaw RC, Feeney WE, Hauber ME (2014) Nest destruction elicits indiscriminate con- vs. heterospecific brood parasitism in a captive bird. Ecology & Evolution 4: 4500-4504.*
187. Portugal S, Maurer G, Thomas GH, Hauber ME, Grim T, Cassey P (2014) Nesting behaviour influences species-specific gas exchange across avian eggshells. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 3326-3332.
186. Hauber ME (2014) Mafia or Farmer? Coevolutionary consequences of retaliation and farming as predatory strategies upon host nests by avian brood parasites. Coevolution 2, doi: 10.1080/23256214.2014.913974.
185. Ortiz-Catedral L, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2014) Haematologic reference ranges of two remnant populations of red-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) in New Zealand. Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 61: 131-136.*
184. Kleindorfer SM, Hoi H, Evans C, Mahr K, Robertson J, Hauber ME, Colombelli-Negrel D (2014) The cost of teaching embryos in superb fairy-wrens. Behavioral Ecology 25: 1131-1135.
183. Moskat C, Zölei A, Ban M, Elek Z, Tong L, Geltsch N, Hauber ME (2014) How to spot a stranger’s egg? A mimicry-specific discordancy effect in the recognition of parasitic eggs. Ethology 120: 616-626.*
182. Ismar MEH, Daniel C, Igic B, Morrison-Whittle P, Ballard G, Millar CD, Fidler A, McGraw KJ, Wakamatsu K, Stephenson BM, Cassey P, Dearborn DC, Hauber ME (2014) Sexual plumage dichromatism in a size monomorphic seabird. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126: 417-428 (with Frontispiece).*
181. Moskat C, Ban M, Hauber ME (2014) Naïve hosts of avian brood parasites accept foreign eggs, whereas older hosts fine-tune foreign egg discrimination during laying. Frontiers in Zoology 11: 45.
180. Portugal SJ, Hauber ME, Maurer G, Stokke BG, Grim T, Cassey P (2014) Early hatching of an avian brood parasite’s embryo cannot be explained by enhanced gaseous exchange across the eggshell. Journal of Zoology 293: 219-226 (with cover).
179. Henger C, Hauber ME (2014) Variation in antiparasitic behaviors of Red-winged Blackbirds in response to simulated Brown-headed Cowbirds. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126: 488–499.*
178. Samas P, Hauber ME, Cassey P, Grim T (2014) Host responses to interspecific brood parasitism: a by-product of adaptations to conspecific parasitism? Frontiers in Zoology 11: 34.
177. Grim T, Samas P, Hauber ME (2014) The repeatability of avian egg ejection behaviors across different temporal scales, breeding stages, female ages and experiences. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 749-759.
176. Baylis SM, de Lisle M, Hauber ME (2014) Inferring maximum lifespan from maximum recorded longevity carries substantial risk of estimation bias. Ecography 37: 770–780.*
175. Croston R, Hauber ME (2014) High repeatability of egg rejection in response to experimental brood parasitism in the American robin (Turdus migratorius). Behaviour 151: 703-718.*
174. Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Kleindorfer SM (2014) Prenatal learning in an Australian songbird: habituation and individual discrimination in superb fairy-wren embryos. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281: 20141154.
173. Machovsky Capuska GE, Hauber ME, Libby E, Amiot C, Raubenheimer D (2014) The contribution of private and public information in foraging by Australasian gannets. Animal Cognition 17: 849-858.*
172. Moskat C, Hauber ME, Elek Z, Gommers M, Ban M, Groenewoud F, Versluijs T, Hoetz CWA, Komdeur J (2014) Foreign egg retention by avian hosts in repeated brood parasitism: why do rejecters accept? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 403-413.
171. Croston R, Hauber ME (2014) Spectral tuning and perceptual differences do not explain the rejection of brood parasitic eggs by American robins (Turdus migratorius). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 351-362.*
170. Galbraith JA, Clout MN, Hauber ME (2014) Nest-site use by an introduced parrot in New Zealand. Emu – Austral Ornithology 114: 97-105.*
169. Hauber ME, Samas P, Anderson MG, Rutila J, Low J, Cassey P, Grim T (2014) Life-history theory predicts host behavioural responses to experimental brood parasitism. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 26: 349-364.*
168. Machovsky-Capuska GE, Hauber ME, Dassis M, Libby E, Wikelski MC, Schuckard R, Melville DS, Cook W, Houston M, Raubenheimer D (2014) Foraging behaviour and habitat use of chick-rearing Australasian Gannets in New Zealand. Journal of Ornithology 155: 379-387.*
167. Ortiz-Catedral L, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2013) Growth and survival of nestlings in a population of red-crowned parakeets (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) free of introduced mammalian nest predators on Tiritiri Matangi Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37: 370-378.*
166. Thrimawithana A, Ortiz-Catedral L, Rodrigo A, Hauber ME (2013) Reduced total genetic diversity following translocations? A metapopulation approach. Conservation Genetics 14: 1043-1055.*
165. Aidala Z, Chong N, Anderson MG, Ortiz-Catedral L, Jamieson IG, Briskie JV, Cassey P, Gill BJ, Hauber ME (2013) Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Mohoua, endemic hosts of New Zealand's obligate brood parasitic Long-tailed Cuckoo (Eudynamys taitensis). Journal of Ornithology 154: 1127-1133.*
164. Polacikova L, Takasu F, Stokke BG, Moksnes A, Roskaft E, Cassey P, Hauber ME, Grim T (2013) Egg arrangement in avian clutches covaries with the rejection of foreign eggs. Animal Cognition 16: 819-828.
163. Gill BJ, Hauber ME (2013) Distribution and age-specific plumage states of the long-tailed cuckoo (Eudynamys taitensis). Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 60: 158-170.
162. Allen KR, Hauber ME (2013) Self-referencing and mate choice among college students: epiphenomenon or consistent patterns of preference across populations? Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 7: 163-174.*
161. Hauber ME, Woolley SMN, Cassey P, Theunissen FE (2013) Experience dependence of neural responses to different classes of male songs in the primary auditory forebrain of female songbirds. Behavioural Brain Research 243: 184-190.
160. Mackay JWB, Alexander A, Hauber ME, Murphy EC, Clout MN (2013) Does genetic variation among invasive house mice in New Zealand affect eradication success? New Zealand Journal of Ecology 37: 18-25.*
159. Ban M, Moskat C, Barta Z, Hauber ME (2013) Simultaneous viewing of own and parasitic eggs is not required for foreign egg rejection by a cuckoo host. Behavioral Ecology 24: 1014-1021.
158. Samas P, Grim T, Hauber ME, Cassey P, Weidinger K, Evans KL (2013) Ecological predictors of reduced avian reproductive investment in the southern hemisphere. Ecography 36: 809-818.
157. Wagner GF, Aidala Z, Croston R, Hauber ME (2013) Repeated brood parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) at Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) nesting sites across non-consecutive years. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 125: 389-394.*
156. Anderson MG, Gill BJ, Briskie JV, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2013) Latitudinal differences in the breeding phenology of Grey Warblers covary with the prevalence of parasitism by Shining Bronze-Cuckoos. Emu – Austral Ornithology 113: 187-191.*
155. Aidala Z, Chong N, Anderson MG, Hauber ME (2012) Predicted visual sensitivity for short-wavelength light in the brood parasitic cuckoos of New Zealand. Chinese Birds 3: 295-301 (Special Issue on Brood Parasitism).*
154. Samas P, Polacikova L, Hauber ME, Cassey P, Grim T (2012) Egg rejection behavior and clutch characteristics of the European Greenfinch introduced to New Zealand. Chinese Birds 3: 330-338 (Special Issue on Brood Parasitism).
153. Horton BM, Hauber ME, Maney DL (2012) Morph matters: aggression bias in a polymorphic sparrow. PLoS ONE 7: e48705.
152. Colombelli-Negrel D, Hauber ME, Robertson J, Sulloway FJ, Hoi H, Griggio M, Evans C, Kleindorfer S (2012) Embryonic learning of vocal passwords in superb fairy-wrens reveals intruder cuckoo nestlings. Current Biology 22: 2155-2160 (Faculty of 1000: 3rd most viewed article in Ecology).
151. Henger C, Wallace SB, Hauber ME (2012) Comparison of two field data collection methods in recording avian behavior. Kingbird 62: 198-211.*
150. Machovsky Capuska GE, Howland HC, Raubenheimer D, Vaugh R, Wursig B, Hauber ME, Katzir G (2012) Visual accommodation and active pursuit of prey underwater in a plunge diving bird: the Australasian gannet. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 4118-4125 (with cover).*
149. Massaro M, Ortiz-Catedral L, Julian L, Galbraith JA, Kurenbach B, Kearvell J, Kemp J, van Hal J, Elkington S, Taylor G, Greene T, van de Wetering J, van de Wetering M, Pryde M, Dilks P, Heber S, Steeves TE, Walters M, Shaw S, Potter J, Farrant M, Brunton DH, Hauber ME, Jackson B, Bell P, Moorhouse R, McInnes K, Varsani A (2012) Molecular characterisation of beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) in New Zealand and its implications for managing an infectious disease. Archives of Virology 157: 1651-1663.*
148. Gill BJ, Hauber ME (2012) Piecing together the epic transoceanic migration of the long-tailed cuckoo Eudynamys taitensis (Aves: Cuculidae): an analysis of museum and sighting records. Emu – Austral Ornithology 112: 326-332.
147. Krull CR, Ranjard L, Landers TJ, Ismar SMH, Matthews JL, Hauber ME (2012) Analyses of sex and individual differences in vocalizations of Australasian gannets using a dynamic time warping algorithm. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132: 1189–1198.*
146. Cassey P, Miksik I, Portugal SJ, Maurer G, Ewen JG, Zarate E, Sewell MA, Karadas F, Grim T, Hauber ME (2012) Avian eggshell pigments are not consistently correlated with colour measurements or egg constituents in two Turdus thrushes. Journal of Avian Biology 43: 503–512.
145. Cassey P, Thomas GH, Portugal SJ, Maurer G, Hauber ME, Grim T, Lovell PG, Miksik I (2012) Why are birds’ eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments covary with life history and nesting ecology among British birds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 106: 657-672.
144. Geltsch N, Hauber ME, Anderson MG, Ban M, Moskat C (2012) Competition with a host nestling for parental provisioning imposes recoverable costs on parasitic cuckoo chick's growth. Behavioural Processes 90: 378– 383.*
143. Hargitai R, Costantini D, Moskat C, Ban M, Muriel J, Hauber ME (2012) Variation in plasma oxidative status and testosterone level in relation to eviction effort and age of brood parasitic common cuckoo nestlings. Condor 114: 782-791 (with cover).
142. Hauber ME, Strausberger BM, Feldheim KA, Lock J, Cassey P (2012) Indirect estimates of breeding and natal philopatry in an obligate avian brood parasite. Journal of Ornithology 153: 467–475.*
141. Croston R, Tonra CM, Heath SK, Hauber ME (2012) Flange color differences of brood parasitic Brown-headed Cowbirds from nests of two host species. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124: 139-145.*
140. Lock J, Hauber ME (2012) A predation risk-and-avoidance model of nestling responses to parental vocalizations. Evolutionary Ecology Research 14: 235–245.*
139. Aidala Z, Huynen L, Brennan PLR, Musser J, Fidler A, Chong N, Machovsky Capuska GE, Anderson MG, Talaba A, Lambert D, Hauber ME (2012) Ultraviolet visual sensitivity in three avian lineages: paleognaths, parrots, and passerines. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 198: 495-510 (with Erratum DOI 10.1007/s00359-012-0752-z).*
138. Zolei A, Hauber ME, Geltsch N, Moskat C (2012) Asymmetrical signal content of egg shape as predictor of egg rejection by great reed warblers, hosts of the common cuckoo. Behaviour 149: 391-406.
137. Shaw RC, Hauber ME (2012) Linking nest predation with brood parasitism in captive zebra finches: a multi-pair study. Journal of Ethology 30: 255-262.*
136. de la Colina MA, Pompilio L, Hauber ME, Reboreda JC, Mahler B (2012) Different recognition cues reveal the decision rules used for egg rejection by hosts of a variably mimetic avian brood parasite. Animal Cognition 15: 881-889.*
135. Hickey AJR, Jullig M, Phillips A, Hauber ME, Loomes K (2012) Birds and longevity: Does flight driven aerobicity provide an oxidative sink? Ageing Research Reviews 11: 242-253.
134. Igic B, Cassey P, Grim T, Greenwood DR, Moskat C, Rutila J, Hauber ME (2012) A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279: 1068-1076.*
133. Baylis SM, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2012) Capsaicin as a deterrent against introduced mammalian predators. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124: 518-524.*
132. Cassey P, Hauber ME, Maurer G, Ewen JG (2012) Sources of variation in reflectance spectrophotometric data: a quantitative analysis using avian eggshell colours. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3: 450-456.
131. Landers TJ, Dennis TE, Hauber ME (2011) Gender assignment of Westland Petrels (Procellaria westlandica) using linear discriminant function analysis. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123: 720-725.*
130. Landers TJ, Bannock CA, Hauber ME (2011) Dynamics of behavioural rhythms in a colonial, nocturnal, burrowing seabird: a comparison across different temporal scales. Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 58: 81-89.*
129. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Steeves TE, Lawrence HA, Thompson DR, Sagar PM, Bury SJ, Landers TJ, Phillips RA, Ranjard L, Shaffer SA (2011) Contemporary and historical separation of transequatorial migration between genetically distinct seabird populations. Nature Communications 2: 232.*
128. Igic B, Braganza K, Hyland MM, Silyn-Roberts H, Cassey P, Grim T, Rutila J, Moskat C, Hauber ME (2011) Alternative mechanisms of increased eggshell hardness of avian brood parasites relative to host species. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 8: 1654-1664.*
127. Galbraith JA, Fraser EA, Clout MN, Hauber ME (2011) Survey duration and season influence the detection of introduced eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38: 223-235.*
126. Neate H, Dowding JE, Parker K, Hauber ME (2011) Breeding success of northern New Zealand dotterels (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) following mammal eradication on Motuihe Island, New Zealand. Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 58: 17-21.*
125. Samas P, Hauber ME, Cassey P, Grim T (2011) Repeatability of foreign egg rejection: testing the assumptions of co-evolutionary theory. Ethology 117: 606-619.
124. Polacikova L, Hauber ME, Prochazka P, Cassey P, Honza M, Grim T (2011) A sum of its parts? Relative contributions of different eggshell regions to intraclutch variation in birds. Journal of Avian Biology 42: 370-373.
123. Curtin P, Hauber ME, Moller P (2011) Factors influencing mutual gaze in captive female Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Journal of Ethology 29: 487-491.*
122. Nakagawa S, Hauber ME (2011) Great challenges with few subjects: statistical strategies for neuroscientists. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 35: 462-473.
121. Landers TJ, Rayner ME, Phillips RA, Hauber ME (2011) Dynamics of seasonal movements by a trans-pacific migrant seabird, the Westland petrel. Condor 113: 71-79 (with cover).*
120. Ismar SMH, Phillips RA, Rayner MJ, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2011) Geolocation tracking of the annual migration of adult Australasian Gannets (Morus serrator) breeding in New Zealand. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123: 121-125.*
119. Ismar SMH, Chong NL, Igic B, Baird K, Ortiz-Catedral L, Fidler AE, Hauber ME (2010) Visual sensitivity, coloration and morphology of red-tailed tropicbirds Phaeton rubricauda breeding on the Kermadec Islands. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38: 29-42 (with cover).*
118. Ismar SMH, Baird K, Patel S, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2010) Morphology of the recently re-classified Tasman Booby Sula dactylatra tasmani breeding on the Kermadec Islands. Marine Ornithology 38: 105-109 (with cover).*
117. Aidala Z, Hauber ME (2010) Avian egg coloration and visual ecology. Nature Education Knowledge 1: 4.*
116. Richardson K, Ewen JG, Armstrong DP, Hauber ME (2010) Sex-specific shifts in natal dispersal dynamics in a reintroduced hihi population. Behaviour 147: 1517-1532 (Special Issue on Dispersal and Sociality).*
115. Croston R, Hauber ME (2010) The ecology of avian brood parasitism. Nature Education Knowledge 1: 3.*
114. Ranjard L, Anderson MG, Rayner MJ, Payne RB, McLean IG, Briskie JV, Ross HA, Brunton DH, Woolley SMN, Hauber ME (2010) Bioacoustic distances between the begging calls of brood parasites and their host species: a comparison of bioacoustic techniques. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 1915-1926.*
113. Cassey P, Maurer G, Duval C, Ewen JG, Hauber ME (2010) Differential impacts of time since collection on eggshell colour components relevant to perceptual modeling in museum collections of song thrush (Turdus philomelos) eggs. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 64: 1711–1720.
112. Krull CR, Hauber ME (2010) Two voice system found in the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator). Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 57: 162-165.*
111. Igic B, Hauber ME, Galbraith JA, Grim T, Dearborn DC, Brennan PLR, Moskat C, Choudary PK, Cassey P (2010) Comparison of micrometer- and scanning electron microscope-based measurements of avian eggshell thickness. Journal of Field Ornithology 81: 402-410.*
110. Cassey P, Portugal SJ, Ewen JG, Boulton RL, Hauber ME, Blackburn TM (2010) Variability in eggshell colour: a comparative study of museum eggshells. PLoS ONE 5: e12054.
109. Sorenson MD, Hauber ME, Derrickson SR (2010) Sexual imprinting misguides species recognition in a facultative interspecific brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 277: 3079-3085.
108. Safran RJ, Vitousek MN, Hauber ME, Ghalambor CK (2010) Sexual selection: a dynamic state of affairs. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 429-430.
107. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Phillips RA (2010) Testing predictions of dual foraging theory in a unimodal species: foraging trip characteristics, diet, and provisioning behavior in the Cook’s petrel Pterodroma cookii. Marine Biology 157: 2187-2194.*
106. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2010) Chick loss from mixed broods reflects severe nestmate competition between an evictor brood parasite and its hosts. Behavioural Processes 83: 311-314.
105. Hauber ME, Campbell DLM, Woolley SMN (2010) Functional role and female perception of male song in zebra finches. Emu – Austral Ornithology 110: 209-218 (Special Issue Honouring Richard Zann).*
104. Moskat C, Ban M, Szekely T, Komdeur J, Lucassen RWG, van Boheemen L, Hauber ME (2010) Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites. Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 1976-1983.
103. Hubbard JK, Uy AC, Hauber ME, Hoekstra HE, Safran RJ (2010) Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function. Trends in Genetics 26: 231-239 (with cover).
102. Anderson MG, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2010) Reliable information content and ontogenetic shift in begging calls of Grey Warbler nestlings. Ethology 116: 357-365.*
101. Parker KA, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2010) Contemporary cultural evolution of a conspecific recognition signal following serial translocations. Evolution 64: 2431-2441.
100. Rayner MJ, Carraher CJF, Clout MN, Hauber ME (2010) Phylogeographic isolation in two distant New Zealand Cook’s petrel (Pterodroma cookii) populations. Conservation Genetics 11: 2073–2077.*
99. Ismar SMH, Hunter C, Lay K, Ward-Smith T, Wilson PR, Hauber ME (2010) A virgin flight across the Tasman Sea? Satellite tracking of post-fledging movements in the Australasian gannet Morus serratorbreeding at Cape Kidnappers. Journal of Ornithology 151:755-759.*
98. Igic B, Greenwood DR, Palmer DJ, Cassey P, Gill BJ, Grim T, Brennan PR, Bassett SM, Battley PF, Hauber ME (2010) Detecting pigments from the colourful eggshells of extinct birds. Chemoecology 20: 43-48.*
97. Ortiz-Catedral L, Kurenbach B, Massaro M, McInnes K, Brunton DH, Hauber ME, Martin DP, Varsani A (2010) Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV): a new strain isolated from wild red-fronted parakeets (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) in New Zealand. Archives of Virology 155: 613-620.*
96. Woolley SMN, Hauber ME, Theunissen FE (2010) Developmental experience alters information coding in auditory midbrain and forebrain neurons. Developmental Neurobiology 70: 235-252.
95. Anderson MG, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2010) Species-specificity of grey warbler begging solicitation and alarm calls revealed by nestling responses to playbacks. Animal Behaviour 79: 401-409.*
94. Igic B, Leuschner N, Parker KA, Ismar SMH, Gill BJ, Lovegrove TG, Millar CD, Hauber ME (2010) Size dimorphism and avian-perceived sexual dichromatism in a New Zealand endemic, the whitehead (Mohoua albicilla). Journal of Morphology 271: 697-704 (with cover).*
93. Ismar SMH, Baird K, Favell E, Hauber ME (2010) Patterns of offspring sex-ratio in a re-establishing black-winged petrel population. Emu – Austral Ornithology 110: 104-108.*
92. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2010) Behavioural correlates of female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) responses to multimodal species recognition cues. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 22: 167-181 (winner of 2010-2011 EEE prize for best article published by a young scientist).*
91. Ismar SMH, Daniel C, Stephenson B, Hauber ME (2010) Mate replacement entails a fitness cost for a socially monogamous seabird. Naturwissenschaften 97: 109-113.*
90. Steeves TE, Holdaway RN, Hale ML, McLay E, McAllan IAW, Christian M, Hauber ME, Bunce M (2010) Merging ancient and modern DNA: extinct seabird taxon rediscovered in the North Tasman Sea. Biology Letters 6: 94-97.
89. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2010) Conspecific-only experience during development reduces the strength of heterospecific song discrimination in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): a behavioural test of the optimal acceptance threshold hypothesis. Journal of Ornithology 151: 379-389.*
88. Ortiz-Catedral L, Kearvell JC, Hauber ME, and Brunton DH (2009) Breeding biology of the critically endangered Malherbe’s Parakeet on Maud Island, New Zealand following the release of captive-bred individuals. Australian Journal of Zoology 57: 433-439.*
87. Igic B, Cassey P, Samas P, Grim T, Hauber ME (2009) Cigarette butts form a perceptually cryptic component of Song Thrush Turdus philomelos nests. Notornis – Ornithology of the South Pacific 56: 134-138.*
86. Cassey P, Boulton RL, Ewen JG, Hauber ME (2009) Reduced clutch size is correlated with increased nest predation in exotic Turdus thrushes. Emu - Austral Ornithology 109: 294-299.
85. Krull CR, Parsons S, Hauber ME (2009) The presence of ultrasonic harmonics in the calls of the Rifleman (Acanthisitta chloris). Notornis – Ornithology of the Southern Pacific 56: 158-161.*
84. Anderson MG, Moskat C, Ban M, Grim T, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2009) Egg eviction imposes a recoverable cost of virulence in chicks of a brood parasite. PLoS ONE 4: e7725.*
83. Hauber ME (2009) Does the removal of avian brood parasite eggs increase host productivity? A case study with brown-headed cowbirds Molothrus ater and song sparrows Melospiza melodia near Ithaca, New York, USA. Conservation Evidence 6: 83-88.
82. Ortiz-Catedral L, Ismar SMH, Baird K, Ewen JG, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2009) No evidence of Cambylobacter, Salmonella and Yersinia in free-ranging populations of the red-crowned parakeet (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 36: 376-383.*
81. Grim T, Rutila J, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2009) The cost of virulence: an experimental study of egg eviction by brood parasitic chicks. Behavioral Ecology 20: 1138-1146.
80. Ortiz-Catedral L, McInnes K, Hauber ME, Brunton DH (2009) First report of Beak and Feather Disease Virus (BFDV) in wild Red-crowned Parakeets (Cyanoramphus novaezealandiae) in New Zealand. Emu – Austral Ornithology 109: 244-247.*
79. Ortiz-Catedral L, Ismar SMH, Baird K, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2009) Recolonization of an oceanic volcano by parakeets after eradication of invasive predators. Conservation Evidence 6: 26-30.*
78. Cassey P, Ewen JG, Marshall NJ, Vorobyev M, Blackburn TM, Hauber ME (2009) Are avian eggshell colours effective intraspecific communication signals? A perceptual modeling approach. Ibis – International Journal of Avian Science 151: 689-698 (Top 10 most cited article in 2011).
77. Low J, Burns KC, Hauber ME (2009) Wild number sense in brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds. Ibis – International Journal of Avian Science 151: 775-777.
76. Shaw RC, Hauber ME (2009) Experimental support for the role of nest predation in the evolution of brood parasitism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 1354-1358.*
75. Anderson MG, Ross HA, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2009) Begging call matching between a specialist brood parasite and its host: a comparative approach to detect co-evolution. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 98: 208-216.*
74. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2009) Disassociation of visual and acoustic conspecific cues decreases discrimination by female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Psychology 123: 310-315.*
73. Moskat C, Hauber ME, Aviles JM, Ban M, Hargitai R, Honza M (2009) Increased host tolerance of multiple cuckoo eggs leads to higher fledging success of the brood parasite. Animal Behaviour 77: 1281-1290.
72. Campbell DLM, Weiner SA, Starks PTB, Hauber ME (2009) Context and control: behavioural ecology experiments in the laboratory. Annales Zoologici Fennici 46: 112-123 (Special Issue on Methods in Ecological Research).*
71. Grodzinski U, Hauber ME, Lotem A (2009) The role of feeding regularity and nestling digestive efficiency in parent-offspring communication: an experimental test. Functional Ecology 23: 569-577.
70. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2009) Cross-fostering diminishes song discrimination in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Animal Cognition 12: 481-490.*
69. Campbell DLM, Shaw RC, Hauber ME (2009) The strength of species recognition in captive female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata): a comparison across estrildid heterospecifics. Ethology 115: 23-32.*
68. Grim T, Rutila J, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2009) Experimentally constrained virulence is costly for common cuckoo chicks. Ethology 115: 14-22.
67. Tonra CM, Johnson MD, Heath SK, Hauber ME (2009) Does nesting habitat predict hatch synchrony between brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds Molothrus ater and two host species? Ecography 32: 497-503.
66. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2009) Spatial and behavioural measures of social discrimination by captive male zebra finches: implications of sexual and species differences for recognition research. Behavioural Processes 80: 90-98.*
65. Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME (2008) Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 655-658.
64. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Clout MN, Seldon DS, Van Dijken S, Bury S, Phillips RA (2008) Foraging ecology of the Cook’s petrel Pterodroma cookii during the austral breeding season: a comparison of its two populations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 370: 271–284.*
63. Hauber ME, Sewell MA, Zuk M (2008) Gender genomics and equality. Heredity 101: 395.
62. Cassey P, Honza M, Grim T, Hauber ME (2008) The modeling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours. Biology Letters 4: 515-517.
61. Matthews JL, Ismar SMH, Hauber ME (2008) Seaweed provisioning behaviour confers thermal benefit for nesting Australasian gannets (Morus serrator). Behaviour 145: 1823-1837 (with cover).*
60. Cassey P, Ewen JG, Blackburn TM, Hauber ME, Vorobyev M, Marshall NJ (2008) Maternal investment of yolk carotenoids is not related to eggshell color variation in European thrushes. Naturwissenschaften 95: 713-721.
59. Hauber ME, Moskat C (2008) Shared parental care is costly for nestlings of common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts. Behavioral Ecology 19: 79-86 (with cover).
58. Tonra CM, Hauber ME, Heath SK, Johnson MD (2008) Ecological correlates and sex differences in early development of a generalist brood parasite. Auk 125: 205-213.
57. Fraser EA, Hauber ME (2008) Higher call rates of morepork, Ninox novaeseelandiae, at sites inside an area with ongoing brodifacoum poisoning compared with matched non-managed sites. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 35: 1-7 (with cover).*
56. Corfield JR, Wild JM, Hauber ME, Parsons S, Kubke MF (2008) Evolution of brain size in the Palaeognath lineage, with an emphasis on New Zealand ratites. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 71: 87-99 (with cover).
55. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Imber MJ, Stamp RK, Clout MN (2007) Spatial heterogeneity of mesopredator release within an oceanic island system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 20862-20865.* Highlighted by Faculty of 1000.
54. Daniel C, Millar CD, Ismar SMH, Stephenson B, Hauber ME (2007) Evaluating molecular and behavioural sexing methods for the Australasian gannet (Morus serrator). Australian Journal of Zoology 55: 377-382.*
53. Anderson MG, Hauber ME (2007) A recognition-free mechanism for reliable rejection of brood parasites. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 283-286.*
52. Galbraith JA, Sancha SE, Maloney RF, Hauber ME (2007) Alarm responses are maintained during captive rearing in chicks of endangered kaki. Animal Conservation 10: 103-109.*
51. Hauber ME, Woolley SMN, Theunissen FE (2007) Experience-dependence of neural responses to social versus isolate conspecific songs in the forebrain of female Zebra Finches. Journal of Ornithology 148 (Suppl 2): S231-S239.
50. Hoover JP, Hauber ME (2007) Individual patterns of habitat and nest-site use by hosts promote transgenerational transmission of avian brood parasitism status. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 1208-1214.
49. Yeh PJ, Hauber ME, Price TD (2007) Alternative nesting behaviours following colonisation of a novel environment by a passerine bird. Oikos 116: 1473-1480.
48. Rayner MJ, Clout MN, Brunton DH, Imber M, Stamp RK, Hauber ME (2007) Predictive habitat modelling for the population census of a burrowing seabird: a study of the endangered Cook's petrel. Biological Conservation 138: 235-247.*
47. Hauber ME, Cassey P, Woolley SMN, Theunissen FE (2007) Neurophysiological response selectivity for conspecific songs over synthetic sounds in the auditory forebrain of non-singing female songbirds. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 193: 765-774.
46. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Clout MN (2007) Breeding habitat of the Cook’s petrel (Pterodroma cookii) on Little Barrier Island (Hauturu), New Zealand: implications for the conservation of an island endemic. Emu – Austral Ornithology 107: 59-68.*
45. Safran RJ, Hauber ME (2007) Dispatch/Evolutionary Biology: Variation isn’t always sexy. Current Biology 17: R368-R370.
44. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2007) Conflict between egg recognition and egg rejection decisions in common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) hosts. Animal Cognition 10: 377-386.
43. Hauber ME, Kilner RM (2007) Who mimics whom? Communication, co-evolution, and chick mimicry in parasitic finches. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 497-503 (10 most downloaded article in 2012).
42. Hauber ME (2007) Fame, fortune, and fitness at the Academy Awards. Journal of Ethology 25: 201-204.
41. Hauber ME, Safran RJ (2006) Dispatch/Behavioural Ecology: Promiscuous fathers sire young that recognize true family. Current Biology 16: R797-R800 (with cover).
40. Latif Q, Grenier JL, Heath S, Ballard G, Hauber ME (2006) First evidence of conspecific brood parasitism in Song Sparrows accompanied by egg ejection and discussion of methods sufficient to document these behaviors. Condor 108: 452-458.*
39. Hauber ME, Moskat C, Ban M (2006) Experimental shift in hosts’ acceptance threshold of inaccurate-mimic brood parasite eggs. Biology Letters 2: 177-180.
38. Cassey P, Ewen JG, Karadas F, Hauber ME (2006) Repeatability of laboratory measurements for maternally derived yolk carotenoid concentrations in bird eggs. Australian Journal of Zoology 54: 381-384.
37. Hoover JP, Yasukawa K, Hauber ME (2006) Spatial and temporal structure of avian brood parasitism affects the fitness benefits of egg ejection and nest abandonment. Animal Behaviour 72: 881-890.
36. Hauber ME (2006) A future cost of misdirected parental care for brood parasitic young? Folia Zoologica 55: 367-374.
35. Moskat C, Barta Z, Hauber ME, Honza M (2006) High synchrony of egg laying between common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) and their great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) hosts. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 18: 159-167.
34. Servedio M, Hauber ME (2006) To eject or to abandon? Brood parasite virulence and host clutch sizes interact to influence the fitness payoffs of alternative rejection strategies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 1585-1594. The authors contributed equally to this work.
33. Shawkey MD, Hauber ME, Estep LK, Hill GE (2006) Evolutionary transitions and mechanisms of matte and iridescent plumage coloration in grackles and allies (Icteridae). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 3: 777-786.
32. Hauber ME, Lacey EA (2005) Bateman’s principle in cooperatively breeding vertebrates: the effects of non-breeding alloparents on variability of female and male reproductive success. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45: 903-914.
31. Kilner RM, Madden JR, Hauber ME (2004) Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources. Science 305: 877-879.
30. Hauber ME, Yeh PJ, Roberts JOL (2004) Patterns and coevolutionary consequences of repeated brood parasitism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: S317-S320.
29. Goth A, Hauber ME (2004) Ecological approaches to species recognition in birds through studies of model and non-model species. Annales Zoologici Fennici 41: 823-842. (Special Issue on Recognition Systems).
28. Hauber ME, Ramsey CK (2003) Honesty in host-parasite communication signals: the case for begging by fledgling Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Journal of Avian Biology 34: 339-344.*
27. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2003) Designing and interpreting experimental tests of self-referent phenotype matching. Animal Cognition 6: 69-71.
26. Hauber ME (2003) Hatching asynchrony, nestling competition, and the cost of interspecific brood parasitism. Behavioral Ecology 14: 224-235 (with cover).
25. Hauber ME (2003) Interspecific brood parasitism and the evolution of host clutch sizes. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 559-570.
24. Hauber ME (2003) Lower begging responsiveness of host vs. cowbird nestlings is related to species identity but not to early social experience in parasitized broods. Journal of Comparative Psychology 117: 24-30.
23. Hauber ME (2003) Egg-capping is a cost paid by hosts of interspecific brood parasites. Auk 120: 860-865.
22. Hauber ME, Pilz KM (2003) Yolk testosterone levels are not consistently higher in the eggs of obligate brood parasites than their hosts. American Midland Naturalist 149: 354-362.
21. Hauber ME, Dearborn DC (2003) Parentage without parental care: what to look for in genetic studies of obligate brood-parasitic mating systems. Perspectives in Ornithology. Auk 120: 1-13.
20. Hauber ME (2002) Is reduced clutch size a cost of parental care in Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe)? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 503-509.
19. McGraw KJ, Mackillup EA, Dale J, Hauber ME (2002) Differential effects of nutritional stress during molt on the expression of melanin- and structurally based ornamental plumage coloration. Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 3747-3755.
18. Hauber ME, Pearson H, Reh A, Merges A (2002) Discrimination between host songs by brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Animal Cognition 5: 129-137.*
17. Hauber ME (2002) First contact: conspecific social association and species recognition in brood parasites. Annales Zoologici Fennici 39: 291-305.
16. Hauber ME, Montenegro K (2002) What are the costs of raising a brood parasite? Comparisons of host parental care at parasitized and non-parasitized broods. Etologia 10: 1-9.*
15. Hauber ME (2002) Conspicuous coloration and prey attraction in a stationary predator. Ecological Entomology 27: 686-691.
14. Hauber ME, Russo SA, Sherman PW (2001) A password for species recognition in a brood parasitic bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 268: 1041-1048.*
13. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2001) Self-referent phenotype matching: theoretical possibilities and empirical tests. Trends in Neurosciences 24: 609-616.
12. Hauber ME (2001) Site selection and repeatability in Brown-Headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) parasitism of Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) nests. Canadian Journal of Zoology 79: 1518-1523.
11. Craig CL, Wolf SG, Davis JLD, Hauber ME, Maas JL (2001) Signal polymorphism in the web-decorating spider Argiope argentata is correlated with reduced survivorship and the presence of stingless bees, its primary prey. Evolution 55: 986-993.
10. Hauber ME, Sherman PW, Paprika D (2000) Self-referent phenotype matching in a brood parasite: the armpit effect in brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Animal Cognition 3: 113-117.
9. Hauber ME (2000) Nest predation and cowbird parasitism in Song Sparrows. Journal of Field Ornithology 71: 389-398.
8. Hauber ME, Russo SA (2000) Perch proximity correlates with higher rates of cowbird parasitism of ground nesting Song Sparrows. Wilson Bulletin 112: 150-153.*
7. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2000) The armpit effect in hamster kin recognition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 349-350.
6. Hauber ME, Clayton NS, Kacelnik A, Reboreda JC, DeVoogd TJ (1999) Sexual dimorphism and species differences in HVC volumes of cowbirds. Behavioral Neuroscience 113: 1095–1099.
5. Hauber ME (1999) Variation in pit size of antlion (Myrmeleon carolinus) larvae: the importance of pit building. Physiological Entomology 24: 37-40.
4. Hauber ME (1998) Single-egg removal from an artificial nest by the Gray Catbird. Wilson Bulletin 110: 426-429.
3. Hauber ME (1998) Tree Swallows raise Brown-headed Cowbird nestling. Kingbird 48: 103-107.
2. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (1998) Nepotism and marmot alarm calling. Animal Behaviour 56: 1049-1052.
1. Hauber ME (1998) Web decorations and alternative foraging tactics of the spider Argiope appensa. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 10: 47-54.
