Publications

A complete list of our scientific publications on cooperative crows, in chronological order (the most recent on top). All publications of members of our research group can be found in the individual pages here.
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Canestrari, D., Vera, R., Chiarati, E., Marcos, J. M., Vila, M., Baglione, V. 2010. False feeding: the trade-off between chicks' hunger and care-givers' needs in cooperative crows. Behavioral Ecology , in press.

Baglione, V. and Canestrari, D. 2009. Kleptoparasitism and temporal segregation of sympatric corvids foraging in a refuse tip.
The Auk
, 126: 566-578.

Canestrari, D., Marcos, J.M and Baglione, V. 2009. Cooperative breeding in carrion crows reduces the rate of brood parasitism by great spotted cuckoos. Animal Behaviour, 77:1337-1344.
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Canestrari, D., Chiarati, E., Marcos, J. M., Ekman, J. & Baglione, V. 2008.
Helpers but not breeders adjust provisioning effort to year-round territory resource availability in carrion crows. Animal Behaviour 76, 943-949.
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Canestrari, D., Marcos, J. M. & Baglione, V. 2008. Reproductive success increases with group size in cooperative carrion crows Corvus corone corone. Animal Behaviour, 75, 403-416.
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Canestrari, D., Marcos, J. M. & Baglione, V. 2007. Costs of chick provisioning in cooperatively breeding carrion crows: an experimental study. Animal Behaviour, 73, 349-357.
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Baglione, V., Canestrari, D., Marcos, J. M. & Ekman, J. 2006. Experimentally increased food resources in the natal territory promote offspring philopatry and helping in cooperatively breeding carrion crows. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 273, 1529-1535.
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Baglione, V., Marcos, J. M., Canestrari, D., Griesser, M., Andreotti, G., Bardini, C. & Bogliani, G. 2005. Does year-round territoriality rather than habitat saturation explain delayed natal dispersal and cooperative breeding in the carrion crow? Journal of Animal Ecology, 74, 842-851.
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Canestrari, D., Marcos, J. M. & Baglione, V. 2005. Effect of parentage and relatedness on the individual contribution to cooperative chick care in carrion crows. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 52, 422-428.
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Canestrari, D., Marcos, J. M. & Baglione, V. 2004. False feedings at the nests of carrion crows Corvus corone corone. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 55, 477-483.
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Baglione, V., Canestrari, D., Marcos, J. M. & Ekman, J.
2003. Kin selection in cooperative alliances of carrion crows. Science, 300, 1947-1949.

Marcos, J. M. & Baglione, V. 2003. Adoptions in a co-operative population of Carrion Crow Corvus corone corone. Bird Study, 50, 306-308.

Baglione, V., Canestrari, D., Marcos, J. M., Griesser, M. & Ekman, J. 2002.
History, environment and social behaviour: experimentally induced cooperative breeding in the carrion crow. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B,
269, 1247-1251.
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Baglione, V., Marcos, J. M., Canestrari, D. & Ekman, J.
2002. Direct fitness benefits of group living in a complex cooperative society of carrion crows, Corvus corone corone. Animal Behaviour, 64, 887-893.
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Baglione, V., Marcos, J. M. & Canestrari, D. 2002. Cooperatively breeding groups of Carrion Crow (Corvus corone corone) in northern Spain. Auk, 119, 790-799.

Ekman, J., Baglione, V., Eggers, S. & Griesser, M. 2001. Delayed dispersal: Living under the reign of nepotistic parents. Auk, 118, 1-10.