Claire N. Spottiswoode

African Institute for Mathematical Sciences — South Africa

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Avian ecology and behavior(82), Animal Behavior and Reproduction(66), Plant and animal studies(58), Bird parasitology and diseases(28), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(26)

Publications180 total

Is bee‐avoidance by bird‐pollinated flowers driven by nectar robbing in <i>Erica</i> ?
Functional Ecology·2026Open Access
Cooperative human signals to honeyguides form local dialects
People and Nature·2026Open Access
Data from: Is bee-avoidance by bird-pollinated flowers driven by nectar robbing in <em>Erica</em>?
DRYAD·2026Open Access
Comparative population genomics reveals convergent adaptation across independent origins of avian obligate brood parasitism
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025
Honey-hunting with honeyguides in northern Ghana: cultural continuity amid change
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Genomic resources for comparative analyses of avian obligate brood parasitism
Journal of Heredity·2025· 1 cited
How common cuckoos adapt to multiple hosts
Science·2025· 1 cited
Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Accelerated sex chromosome degeneration and mitonuclear coevolution in a brood parasitic bird
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Genomic resources for comparative analyses of obligate avian brood parasitism
2025Open Access
Pigment concentrations only partially predict avian eggshell colour mimicry in a polymorphic host–brood parasite system
Biology Letters·2025· 2 cited
Author response for "Pigment concentrations only partially predict avian eggshell colour mimicry in a polymorphic host–brood parasite system"
2025
Comparative population genomics reveals convergent adaptation across independent origins of avian obligate brood parasitism
2025Open Access
To Bees or Not to Bees: Greater Honeyguides Sometimes Guide Humans to Animals Other Than Bees, but Likely Not as Punishment
Ecology and Evolution·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Coevolution and the diversification of nestling ornamentation in a species-rich avian radiation
Evolution·2025Open Access
The economic value of human-honeyguide mutualism in Reserva Especial do Niassa, Moçambique
Ecosystem Services·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Highly virulent avian brood-parasitic species show elevated embryonic metabolic rates at specific incubation stages compared to less virulent and non-parasitic species
Biology Letters·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Highly virulent avian brood-parasitic species show elevated embryonic metabolic rates at specific incubation stages compared to less virulent and non-parasitic species"
2024
A biogeographical appraisal of the threatened South East Africa Montane Archipelago ecoregion
Scientific Reports·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Culturally determined interspecies communication between humans and honeyguides
Science·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Martin Stevens(10), Jolyon Troscianko(8), Anders Pape Møller(5), Jared K. Wilson‐Aggarwal(5), Amanda R. Bourne(5), Susan J. Cunningham(5), Amanda R. Ridley(5), Nigel Collar(3), Claire Doutrelant(3), Rita Covas(3), Lincoln Fishpool(2), Colleen Begg(2), Anders P. Tøttrup(2), Timothy Coppack(2), J. F. R. Colebrook-Robjent(2), Dominic L. Cram(2), Jessica E. M. van der Wal(2), Natalie Uomini(2), Maurício Cantor(2), Anap I. Afan(2)