Andrew Radford: Publications

Refereed papers
Book Reviews
Submitted manuscripts

• Radford, A.N. & Ridley, A.R. (2006) Recruitment calling: a novel form of extended parental care in an altricial species. Current Biology 16: 1700-1704. Download PDF 1 (main paper) | Download PDF 2 (supplementary material)
  
  
• Radford, A.N. & du Plessis, M.A. (2006) Dual function of allopreening in the cooperatively breeding green woodhoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. In press. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. (2005) Neighbour-stranger discrimination in the group-living green woodhoopoe. Animal Behaviour 70: 1227-1234. Download PDF
  
  
• Krüger, O., Radford, A.N., Anderson, C. & Liversidge, R. (2005) Sexy sons or superior daughters: sex-ratio manipulation in springbok. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 272: 375-381. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. & du Plessis, M.A. (2004) Territorial vocal rallying in the green woodhoopoe: factors affecting the contest length and outcome. Animal Behaviour 68: 803-810. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. (2004) Voice breaking in males results in sexual dimorphism of green woodhoopoe calls. Behaviour 141 :555-569. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. (2004) Vocal mediation of foraging competition in the cooperatively breeding green woodhoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56: 279-285. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. (2004) Incubation feeding by helpers influences female nest attendance in the green woodhoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 55: 583-588. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. & du Plessis, M.A. (2004) Extreme sexual dimorphism in green woodhoopoe bill length: a case of sexual selection? Auk 121: 178-183.
  
  
• Radford, A.N. & du Plessis, M.A. (2004) Green woodhoopoe territories remain stable despite group-size fluctuations. Journal of Avian Biology 35: 262-268. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. 2004 Vocal co-ordination of group movement by green woodhoopoes (Phoeniculus purpureus). Ethology 110: 11-20. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. 2003 Territorial vocal rallying in the green woodhoopoe: influence of rival group size and composition. Animal Behaviour 66: 1035-1044. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. & du Plessis, M.A. 2003 The importance of rainfall to a cavity nesting species. Ibis 145: 692-694. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. & du Plessis M.A. (2003) Bill dimorphism and foraging niche partitioning in the green woodhoopoe. Journal of Animal Ecology 72: 258-269. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N., McCleery, R.H., Woodburn R.J.W. & Morecroft, M.D. (2001) Activity patterns of parent Great Tits Parus major feeding their young during rainfall. Bird Study 48: 214-220.
  
  
• Radford, A.N. & Blakey, J.K. (2000) Is variation in brood sex ratios adaptive in the great tit (Parus major)? Behavioral Ecology 11: 294-298. Download PDF
  
  
• Radford, A.N. & Blakey, J.K. (2000) Intensity of nest defence is related to offspring sex ratio in the great tit Parus major. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267: 535-538. Download PDF

• Radford, A.N. (1999) Review of C. Ortega. Cowbirds & Other Brood Parasites. Ibis 141: 697.

• Krüger, O. & Radford, A.N. Doomed to die? Predicting extinction risk in the true hawks Accipitridae.
  
  
• Wright, J. & Radford, A.N. Variance-sensitive woodhoopoes: a new explanation for sex differences in foraging strategies?