This is a very partial listing of references. We will be adding more in the future, and welcome your suggestions/submissions. Clicking on the Title link will retrieve an abstract. We hope to provide many of these publications as PDF formated files with full text.
| ECOLOGY AND LIFE HISTORY |
| Tree swallow reproductive investment, stress, and parasites. Shutler, Dave, Mullie, Adele, Clark, Robert G., Can. J. Zool. 82: 442-448, 2004. PDF.
Breeding between Tree Swallow from the same brood. Shutler, Dave, Hussell, David J.T., Horn, Andrew G., Leonard, Marty L., Shutler, Robert W., Lepage, Denis, J. Field Ornithol. 75(4):353-358, 2004. PDF. Causes and consequences of tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) dispersal in Saskatchewan. Shutler, Dave, and Clark, Robert G., Auk 120(3):619-631, 2003. PDF. Sex ratios of fleas (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) in nests of Tree Swallows (Passeriformes: Hirundinidae) exposed to different chemicals. Shutler, Dave, Petersen, Stephen D., Dawson, Russell D., Campbell, A., Environ. Entomol. 32(5): 1045-1048, 2003. PDF. Ectoparasites, nestling growth, parental feeding rates, and begging intensity of tree swallows. Thomas, Krista, and Shutler, Dave. Can. J. Zool. 79:346-353, 2001. PDF. Laying order, hatching asynchrony and nestling body mass in Tree Swallows Tachycineta bicolor. Clotfelter, Ethan D., Linda A. Whittingham, and Peter O. Dunn. Journal of Avian Biology. 31:329-334, 2000. |
| Geographic and ecological variation in clutch size of Tree Swallows. Dunn, Peter O., Kevin J. Thusius, David W. Winkler. Auk 117:215-221, 2000 |
| Offspring sex ratios in tree swallows: Females in better condition produce more sons. Whittingham, Linda A. and Peter O. Dunn. Molecular Ecology. 9:1123-1129, 2000. |
| Climate change has affected the breeding date of tree swallows throughout North America. Dunn,Peter O., David W. Winkler. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B. 266:2487-2490 1999. |
| Relative importance of environmental variables in determining the growth of nestling Tree Swallows Tachycineta bicolor. McCarty, John P., David W. Winkler. Ibis 141:286-296, 1999. |
| Foraging ecology and diet selectivity of Tree Swallows feeding nestlings. McCarty, John P., and David W. Winkler. Condor 101:246-254, 1999. |
| The potential to lay replacement clutches by tree swallows. Rooneem, Taali M., Raleigh J. Robertson. Condor 99:228-231, 1997 |
| The seasonal decline in tree swallow clutch size: Physiological constraint or strategic adjustment. Winkler, David W., and Paul E. Allen. Ecology 77:922-932, 1996. |
| Use and importance of feathers as nest lining in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). Winkler, David W. Auk. 110:29-36, 1993. |
| SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND PATERNITY |
| Reproductive anatomy and indices of quality in male Tree Swallows: The potential reproductive role of floaters. Peer, Katharina, Raleigh J. Robertson, and Bart Kempenaers. Auk 117:74-81, 2000. |
| The high frequency of extra-pair paternity in tree swallows is not an artifact of nestboxes. Barber, Colleen A., Raleigh J. Robertson, and Peter T. Boag. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 38:425-430, 1996 |
| SYSTEMATICS |
| Evolution of nest construction in swallows (Hirundinidae): A molecular phylogenetic perspective. Winkler, David W. and Frederick H. Sheldon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 90:5705-5707, 1993. |