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  Publications in international peer-reviewed journals
   

2010

 
   
  Polačiková L. & Grim T. 2010: Blunt egg pole holds cues for alien egg discrimination: experimental evidence.
Journal of Avian Biology (in press).
 
Igic B., Greenwood D. R., Palmer D. J.,  Cassey P., Gill B. J., Grim T., Brennan P. L. R., Bassett S. M., Battley P. F. & Hauber M. E. 2010: Detecting pigments from colourful eggshells of extinct birds.
Chemoecology (in press) (doi: 10.1007/s00049-009-0038-2).
(Copyright owned by Springer-Verlag)
 
   

2009

 
   
Igic B., Cassey P., Samaš P., Grim T. & Hauber M. E. 2009: Cigarette butts form a perceptually cryptic component of song thrush Turdus philomelos nests.
Notornis 56(3): 134–138.
(Copyright owned by the Ornithological Society of New Zealand)
 
Anderson M. G., Moskát C., Bán M., Grim T., Cassey P. & Hauber M. E. 2009: Egg eviction imposes a recoverable cost of virulence in chicks of a brood parasite.
PLoS ONE 4(11): e7725 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007725) See  media reports
(Copyright owned by authors)
 
Grim T., Rutila J., Cassey P. & Hauber M. E. 2009: The cost of virulence: an experimental study of egg eviction by brood parasitic chicks.
Behavioral Ecology 20(5): 1138–1146 (doi: 10.1093/beheco/arp108) Supplementary video
(Copyright owned by Oxford University Press)
 
Grim T. 2009: The “beer vs. science” affair: illuminating drawbacks of current ecology.
Web Ecology 9: 24–29.
(Copyright owned by Blackwell Publishers)
 
Grim T., Rutila J., Cassey P. & Hauber M. E. 2009: Experimentally constrained virulence is costly for common cuckoo chicks.
Ethology 115(1): 14–22. (doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01574.x)
(Copyright owned by Blackwell Publishers)
 
   

2008

 
   
Grim T. 2008: Begging behavior of the fledgling rusty-breasted cuckoo (Cacomantis sepulcralis).
The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120(4): 889–892.
(Copyright owned by The Wilson Ornithological Society)
 
Cassey P., Honza M., Grim T. & Hauber M. E. 2008: The modelling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to variable egg colours.
Biology Letters 4(5): 515
–517. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0279) See  media reports
(Copyright owned by The Royal Society)
 
Grim T. 2008: A possible role of social activity to explain differences in publication output among ecologists.
Oikos 117(4): 484–487. (doi: 10.1111/j.2008.0030-1299.16551.x) See  media reports
(Copyright owned by Blackwell Publishers)
 
Grim T. 2008: Are blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla) defending their nests also calling for help from their neighbours?
Journal of Ornithology 149(2): 169–180. (doi: 10.1007/s10336-007-0257-7)
(Copyright owned by Dt. Ornithologen-Gesellschaft e.V.)
 
Grim T. 2008: Wing-shaking and wing-patch as nestling begging strategies: their importance and evolutionary origins.
Journal of Ethology 26(1): 9–15. (
Review paper) (doi: 10.1007/s10164-007-0037-0)
Supplementary video
(Copyright owned by Japan Ethological Society)
 
   

2007

 
   
Krist M. & Grim T. 2007: Are blue eggs a sexually selected signal of female collared flycatchers? A cross-fostering experiment.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61(6): 863–876. (doi: 10.1007/s00265-006-0315-9)
(Copyright owned by Springer-Verlag)
 
Grim T. 2007: Equal rights for chick brood parasites.
Annales Zoologici Fennici 44(1): 1–7.
(Copyright owned by Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board)
 
Grim T. 2007: Experimental evidence for chick discrimination without recognition in a brood parasite host.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 274(1608): 373–381. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3731) See  media reports
(Copyright owned by The Royal Society)
 
   

2006

 
   
Grim T. 2006: Low virulence of brood parasitic chicks: adaptation or constraint?
Ornithological Science 5(2): 237242.
(Copyright owned by Ornithological Society of Japan)

See also unpublished clarification of my original arguments (response to Kilner 2006: Ornithol. Sci. 5: 243
–247) here.
 
Grim T. 2006: Cuckoo growth performance in parasitized and unused hosts: not only host size matters.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60(5): 716–723. (doi: 10.1007/s00265-006-0215-z)
(Copyright owned by Springer-Verlag)
 
Grim T. 2006: Avian foraging studies: an overlooked source of distribution data for macroecological and conservation studies.
Diversity and Distributions 12(5): 630–632. (doi: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00251.x)
(Copyright owned by Blackwell Publishers)
 
Grim T. 2006: The evolution of nestling discrimination by hosts of parasitic birds: why is rejection so rare?
Evolutionary Ecology Research 8(5): 785–802. (Review paper)
(Copyright owned by author)

 
Grim T. 2006: An exceptionally high diversity of hoverflies (Syrphidae) in the food of the reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus).
Biologia 61(1): 235–239. (doi: 10.2478/s11756-006-0036-6)
(Copyright owned by Slovak Academy of Sciences)
 
Grim T. & Šumbera R. 2006: A new record of the endangered white-winged nightjar (Eleothreptus candicans) from Beni, Bolivia.
The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118(1): 109–112.
(Copyright owned by The Wilson Ornithological Society)
 
   

2005

 
   
Grim T. 2005: Host recognition of brood parasites: implications for methodology in studies of enemy recognition.
Auk
122(2): 530–543
. (doi: 10.1642/0004-8038(2005)122[0530:HROBPI]2.0.CO;2)
(Copyright owned by The American Ornithologists
`
Union)
 
Grim T. 2005: Mimicry vs. similarity: which resemblances between brood parasites and their hosts are mimetic and which are not?
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84(1): 6978. (Review paper) (doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00414.x)
(Copyright owned by The Linnean Society of London)
 
   

2004

 
   
Honza M., Grim T., Čapek M., Moksnes A. & Røskaft E. 2004: Nest defence, enemy recognition and nest inspection behaviour of experimentally parasitised reed warblers Acrocephalus scirpaceus.
Bird Study 51(3): 256–263. (doi: 10.1080/00063650409461361)
(Copyright owned by British Trust for Ornithology)
 
   

2003

 
   
Grim T., Kleven O. & Mikulica O. 2003: Nestling discrimination without recognition: a possible defence mechanism for hosts towards cuckoo parasitism?
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 270(Suppl. 1): S73–S75. (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0017 )
(doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0017)
(Copyright owned by The Royal Society)
 
   

2002

 
   
Grim T. 2002: Why is mimicry in cuckoo eggs sometimes so poor?
Journal of Avian Biology 33(3): 302–305. (doi: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.330312.x)
(Copyright owned by Blackwell Publishers)
 
   

2001

 
   
Grim T. 2001: Davies 2000: Cuckoos, cowbirds and other cheats (book review).
Folia Zoologica
50(1): 26.
(Copyright owned by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
 
Grim T. 2001: Rothstein & Robinson (eds.) 1998: Parasitic birds and their hosts. Studies in coevolution (book review).
Folia Zoologica
50(1): 18.
(Copyright owned by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
 
Grim T. & Honza M. 2001: Differences in behaviour of closely related thrushes (Turdus philomelos and T. merula) to experimental parasitism by the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus.
Biologia 56(5): 549–556.
(Copyright owned by Slovak Academy of Sciences)
 
Honza M., Picman J., Grim T., Novák V., Čapek M. & Mrlík V. 2001: How to hatch from an egg of great structural strength. A study of the common cuckoo.
Journal of Avian Biology 32(3): 249–255. (doi: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2001.320307.x)
(Copyright owned by Blackwell Publishers)
 
Grim T. & Honza M. 2001: Does supernormal stimulus influence parental behaviour of the cuckoo’s host?
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
49(4): 322
329. (doi: 10.1007/s002650000295)
(Copyright owned by Springer-Verlag)
 
   

1997

 
   
Grim T. & Honza M. 1997: Differences in parental care of reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) in its own nestlings and parasitic cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) chicks.
Folia Zoologica 46(2): 135–
142.
(Copyright owned by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
 
   

1996

 
   
Grim T. & Honza M. 1996: Effect of habitat on the diet of reed warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus) nestlings.
Folia Zoologica
45(1): 31–
34.
(Copyright owned by Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
 
 
   
   
  Publications in Czech and Slovak ornithological journals
   
   
Grim T. 2009: Ridgely R. S. & Tudor G. 2009: Field Guide to the Songbirds of South America. The Passerines. Rodriguez Mata J. R., Erize F. & Rumboll M. 2006: A Field Guide to the Birds of South America: Non-Passerines: From rheas to woodpeckers. (recenze). Sylvia 45: 167170.
(Copyright owned by Czech Society for Ornithology)
 
Straka O. & Grim T. 2007: Nest site selection in the Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis).
Sylvia 43: 109–122.
(in Czech, with summary in English)
(Copyright owned by Czech Society for Ornithology)
 
Grim T. & Vermouzek Z. 2005: Mayer S. 2000: Birds of Bolivia, Scharringa J. 2001: Birds of Tropical Asia, Krabbe N. & Nilsson J. 2003: Birds of Ecuador (recenze).
Sylvia 41: 147150.
(Copyright owned by Czech Society for Ornithology)
 
Matysioková B. & Grim T.  2005: Who determines length of the nestling period in open nesting passerines: parents or offspring?
Sylvia 41: 35–49.
(in Czech, with summary in English)
(Copyright owned by Czech Society for Ornithology)
 
Matysioková B. & Grim T. 2004: Další výskyt ústřičníka velkého (Haematopus ostralegus) v hnízdním období na Dunaji.
Tichodroma 16: 75–76
.
 
Grim T. & Vermouzek Z. 2004: Papežík kontra biskoupek: před další katastrofou v českém ptačím názvosloví.
Zprávy ČSO
59: 38–40. text s odkazy na web zdroje

 
Grim T. 2003: Hnízdní parazitismus kukačkou obecnou.
Zprávy ČSO
56: 59.
 
text Grim T. 2003: Kukačka obecná – stará známá-neznámá.
Stránky České společnosti ornitologické.
 
Grim T. 2002: Veselovský Z. 2001: Obecná ornitologie (recenze).
Sylvia 38: 137–139.
(Copyright owned by Czech Society for Ornithology)
 
Grim T. 2000: An interesting observation of redirected activity in the song thrush (Turdus philomelos).
Sylvia 36(2): 161–
163. (in Czech, with summary in English)
(Copyright owned by Czech Society for Ornithology)
 
Grim T. 1999: Food of great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) young.
Sylvia 35(2): 93–
99. (in Czech, with summary in English)
(Copyright owned by Czech Society for Ornithology)
 
Grim T. 1996: Ptactvo Třebíčských rybníků.
Ptáci kolem nás
1996(4): 4–8.
 
Grim T. 1995: Pozorování potáplice lední Gavia immer u Pasohlávek.
Zprávy ČSO 41: 11.
 
Grim T. 1993: Ptactvo okolí Třebíče se zaměřením na vodní druhy.
Naším krajem
1993(5): 3–5.
 
Grim T. 1992: Zahnízdění slavíka modráčka středoevropského Luscinia svecica cyanecula Meisner, 1804 na Českomoravské vrchovině.
Moravský ornitolog
1992(3): 15–16.