114. Hauber ME, Campbell DLM, Woolley SMN (in press) Functional role and female perception of male song in zebra finches. Emu - Austral Ornithology (Special Issue Honouring Richard Zann).*

113. Rayner MJ, Hauber ME, Phillips RA (in press) 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.*

112. Nakagawa S, Hauber ME (in press) Great challenges with few subjects: statistical strategies for neurosciences. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.

111. Landers TJ, Rayner ME, Phillips RA, Hauber ME (in press) Dynamics of seasonal movements by a trans-pacific migrant seabird, the Westland petrel Procellaria westlandica. Condor.*

110. Anderson MG, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2010) Reliable information content and ontogenetic shift in begging calls of Grey Warbler nestlings. Ethology, 116(4):357-365. DOI 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01750.x.*

109. 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.*

108. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2010) Behavioural correlates of female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) responses to multimodal species recognition cues. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 22(2) 167-181 DOI 10.1080/03949371003707885.*

107. 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 (Online First 2010).*

106. Cassey P, Portugal SJ, Maurer G, Ewen JG, Boulton RL, Hauber ME, Blackburn TM (2010) Variability in avian eggshell colour: A comparative study of museum eggshells. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12054. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012054.

105. Hubbard JK, Uy JA, Hauber ME, Hoekstra HE, Safran RJ (2010) Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function. Trends in Genetics 26(5):231-9.

104. 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(6) 697-704. DOI 10.1002/jmor.10827.

103. Ismar SMH, Baird K, Favell E, Hauber ME (2010) Patterns of offspring sex-ratio in a re-establishing black-winged petrel population. Emu - Australian Ornithology 110(1) 104-108 DOI 10.1071/MU09097.*

102. Ismar SMH, Daniel C, Stephenson B, Hauber ME (2010) Mate replacement entails a fitness cost for a socially monogamous seabird. Naturwissenschaften 97L 109-113.*

101. 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 serrator breeding at Cape Kidnappers. Journal of Ornithology. DOI 10.1007/s10336-010-0504-1.*

100. Moskat C, Ban M, Szekely T, Komdeur J, Lucassen RWG, van Boheemen LA, Hauber ME (2010) Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites. The Journal of Experimental Biology 213: 1976-1983. doi:10.1242/jeb.040394.

99. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2010) Chick loss from mixed broods reflects severe nestmate competition between an evictor brood parasite and its host. Behavioural Processes, 83(3):311-4.

98. Ortiz-Catedral L, Kearvell JC, Hauber ME, and Brunton DH (2010) 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(6): 433-439 DOI 10.1071/ZO09098.*

97. Ortiz-Catedral L, Kurenbach B, Massaro M, McInnes K, Brunton DH, Hauber ME, Martin DP, Varsani A (2010) A new isolate of beak and feather disease virus from endemic wild red-fronted parakeets (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae) in New Zealand. Archives of Virology 155:613-620. DOI 10.1007/s00705-010-0607-2.*

96. Parker KA, Hauber ME, & Brunton DH (2010) Contemporary cultural evolution of a conspecific recognition signal following serial translocations. Evolution. DOI 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01013.x.

95. Rayner MJ, Carraher CJF, Mick N. Clout MN, & Hauber ME (2010) Mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals genetic structure in two New Zealand Cook's petrel (Pterodroma cookii) populations. Conservation Genetics. DOI 10.1007/s10592-010-0072-1.

94. Rayner MJ, Hartill BW, Hauber ME, Phillips RA (2010) Central place foraging by breeding Cook's petrel Pterodroma cookii: foraging duration reXects range,diet and chick meal mass. Marine Biology (Published Online). DOI 10.1007/s00227-010-1483-8.

93. Safran RJ, Vitousek MN, Hauber ME, Ghalambor CK (2010) Sexual selection: a dynamic state of affairs Response to the comments of Cornwallis and Uller in the article: Towards an evolutionary ecology of sexual traits. Trends Ecol Evol.[Epub ahead of print]

92. Sorenson MD, Hauber ME, & Derrickson SR (2010) Sexual imprinting misguides species recognition in a facultative interspecific brood parasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0592.

91. 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 (Online First 2009).

90. Woolley SMN, Hauber ME, Theunissen FE (2009) Developmental experience alters information coding in auditory midbrain and forebrain neurons. Developmental Neurobiology (Online). DOI 10.1002/dneu.20783.

2009

89. 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.*

88. 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.*

87. Campbell DLM, Hauber ME (2009) Cross-fostering diminishes song discrimination in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Animal Cognition 12: 481-490.*

86. 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.*

85. 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.*

84. 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.*

83. 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).*

82. Cassey P, Boulton RL, Ewen JG, Hauber ME (2009) Reduced clutch size is correlated with increased nest predation in exotic Turdus thrushes. Emu - Australian Ornithology 109: 294-299.

81. 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.

80. Grim T, Rutila J, Cassey P, Hauber ME (2009) Experimentally constrained virulence is costly for common cuckoo Cuculus canorus chicks. Ethology 115: 14-22.

79. 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.

78. 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.

77. 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.

76. 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: 158-161.*

75. Igic B, Gill BJ, Grim T, Brennan PR, Bassett SM, Battley PF, Palmer DJ, Greenwood DR, Hauber ME (2009) Detecting pigments from the colourful eggshells of extinct birds. Chemoecology 20:43-48. DOI 10.1007/s00049-009-0038-2.*

74. 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.*

73. 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.

72. 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.

71. Ortiz-Catedral L, Ismar SMH, Baird K, Brunton DH, Hauber ME (2009) Recolonization of Raoul Island by Kermadec red-crowned parakeets Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae cyanurus after eradication of invasive predators, Kermadec Islands archipelago, New Zealand. Conservation Evidence 6: 26-30.*

70. 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.*

69. 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 - Australian Ornithology 109: 244-247.*

68. 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.*

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.

2008

66. Cassey P, Ewen JG, Blackburn TM, Hauber ME, Vorobyev M, Marshall NJ (2008) Eggshell colour does not predict measures of maternal investment in eggs of Turdus thrushes. Naturwissenschaften 95: 713-721.

65. 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.

64. 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 photo).

63. Fraser EA, Hauber ME (2008) Higher call rates of morepork, Ninox novaeseaelandiae, 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 photo).*

62. 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 photo).

61. Hauber ME, Sewell MA, Zuk M (2008) Gender genomics and equality. Heredity 101: 395.

60. 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 image).*

59. 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.*

58. Rubenstein DR, Hauber ME (2008) Dynamic feedback between phenotype and physiology in sexually selected traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 655-658.

57. 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.

2007

56. Anderson MG, Hauber ME (2007) A recognition-free mechanism for reliable rejection of brood parasites. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 283-286.*

55. 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.*

54. 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.*

53. Hauber ME (2007) Fame, fortune, and fitness at the Academy Awards. Journal of Ethology 25: 201-204.

52. 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.

51. Hauber ME, Kilner RM (2007) Coevolution, communication, and host-chick mimicry in parasitic finches: who mimics whom? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 497-503.

50. 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.

49. 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.

48. Moskat C, Hauber ME (2007) Conflict between egg recognition and egg rejection decisions in common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) hosts. Animal Cognition 10: 377-386.

47. 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.*

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 - Australian Ornithology 107: 59-68.*

45. 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.

44. Safran RJ, Hauber ME (2007) Dispatch/Evolutionary Biology: Variation isn't always sexy. Current Biology 17: R368-R370.

43. Yeh PJ, Hauber ME, Price TD (2007) Alternative nesting behaviours following colonisation of a novel environment by a passerine bird. Oikos 116: 1473-1480.

2006

42. Battley Phil F. and Hauber Mark E (2006) Beauty is only partly in the eye of the beholder. Trends Ecol. Evol. DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2006.11.008.

41. 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.

40. Hauber ME (2006) A future cost of misdirected parental care for brood parasitic young? Folia Zoologica 55: 367-374.

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. Hauber ME, Safran RJ (2006) Dispatch/Behavioural Ecology: Promiscuous fathers sire young that recognize true family. Current Biology 16: R797-R800 (with cover photo).

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. 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.*

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.

2005

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.

2004

31. 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).

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. Kilner RM, Madden JR, Hauber ME (2004) Brood parasitic cowbird nestlings use host young to procure resources. Science 305: 877-879.

2003

28. Hauber ME (2003) Egg-capping is a cost paid by hosts of interspecific brood parasites. Auk 120: 860-865.

27. Hauber ME (2003) Hatching asynchrony, nestling competition, and the cost of interspecific brood parasitism. Behavioral Ecology 14: 224-235 (with cover photo).

26. Hauber ME (2003) Interspecific brood parasitism and the evolution of host clutch sizes. Evolutionary Ecology Research 5: 559-570.

25. 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.

24. 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.

23. 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.

22. 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.*

21. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2003) Designing and interpreting experimental tests of self-referent phenotype matching. Animal Cognition 6: 69-71.

2002

20. Hauber ME (2002) Conspicuous coloration and prey attraction in a stationary predator. Ecological Entomology 27: 686-691.

19. Hauber ME (2002) First contact: Conspecific social association and species recognition in brood parasites. Annales Zoologici Fennici 39: 291-305.

18. Hauber ME (2002) Is reduced clutch size a cost of parental care in Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe)? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 51: 503-509.

17. 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.*

16. 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.*

15. McGraw KJ, Mackillop EA, Dale J, Hauber ME (2002) Different colors reveal different information: how nutritional stress affects the expression of melanin- and structurally based ornamental plumage. Journal of Experimental Biology 205: 3747-3755.

2001

14. 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.

13. Hauber ME, Russo SA, Sherman PW (2001) A password for species recognition in a brood parasitic bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society London B 268: 1041-1048.*

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. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2001) Self-referent phenotype matching: Theoretical consideration and empirical evidence. Trends in Neurosciences 24(10): 609-616.

2000

10. Hauber ME (2000) Nest predation and cowbird parasitism in Song Sparrows. Journal of Field Ornithology 71: 389-398.

9. Hauber ME, Russo SA (2000) Perch proximity correlates with higher rates of cowbird parasitism of ground nesting Song Sparrows. Wilson Bulletin 112: 150-153.*

8. Hauber ME, Sherman PW (2000) The armpit effect in hamster kin recognition. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15: 349-350.

7. 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.

1999

6. Hauber ME (1999) Variation in pit size of antlion (Myrmeleon carolinus) larvae: The importance of pit building. Physiological Entomology 24: 37-40.

5. 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.

1998

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(2): 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.