African Cuckoos

Research on brood parasites and other curious African birds

Publications

Refereed papers | Other articles

Papers

  • Nwaogu, C.J. & Cresswell, W. (2021) Local timing of rainfall predicts the timing of moult within a single locality and the progress of moult among localities that vary in the onset of the wet season in a year-round breeding tropical songbird. Journal of Ornithology 162: 265–276.

  • Nwaogu, C.J., Tieleman, B.I. & Cresswell, W. (2020) Geographic variation in baseline innate immune function does not follow variation in aridity along a tropical environmental gradient. Scientific Reports 10: 5909.

  • Nwaogu, C.J., Galema, A., Dietz, M.W., Cresswell, W. & Tieleman, B.I. (2020) A fruit diet rather than an invertebrate diet maintains a robust innate immunity without a deterioration of body condition. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 867-883.

  • Nwaogu, C.J., Cresswell, W., Versteegh, M.A. & Tieleman, B.I. (2018) Environment explains seasonal differences in baseline innate immune function better than annual cycle stages in a natural tropical songbird population.  Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 537-553.

  • Nwaogu, C.J., Tieleman, B.I., Bitrus K.Z. & Cresswell, W. (2018) Temperature and aridity determine body size conformity to Bergmann’s rule independent of latitudinal differences in a tropical environment.  Journal of Ornithology 159: 1053-1062.

  • Nwaogu, C.J.; Tieleman, B.I. & Cresswell, W (2018) Weak breeding seasonality of a songbird in a seasonally arid tropical environment arises from individual flexibility and strongly seasonal moult. Ibis 161: 533 – 545.

  • Nwaogu, C.J., Dietz, M.W., Tieleman, B.I. & Cresswell, W (2017) Breeding limits foraging time: evidence of interrupted foraging response from body mass variation in a tropical environment – Journal of Avian Biology 48: 565-569.

  • Nwaogu, C.J. & Cresswell, W. (2016) Body reserves in intra-African migrants. Journal of Ornithology 157: 125-135.

Other articles

      • Nwaogu C.J. & Ivande S.T. (2017). Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator brood parasitism and presence of a developmental bill hook in the Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus – Bulletin of African Bird Club 24(2): 204-208.

      • Nwaogu C.J.; Agbo B.O.; Bitrus K.Z.; Ottosson U. & Manu S. A. (2017) Status of the Rosy Bee-eater Merops malimbicus on the Niger River, north-central Nigeria – Bulletin of African Bird Club 24(2): 171-181.