Publications

Rutz, C. (2001). (Spatio-temporal habitat use of urban-breeding northern goshawks Accipiter gentilis.) Diploma thesis, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. (In German.)

Rutz, C. (2005a). The northern goshawk: population dynamics and behavioural ecology. DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Rutz, C. (2003a). Assessing the breeding season diet of goshawks Accipiter gentilis: biases of plucking analysis quantified by means of continuous radio-monitoring. Journal of Zoology (London) 259: 209–217. [doi: 10.1017/S0952836902003175] [pdf]

Rutz, C. (2003b). Post-fledging dispersal of Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) in an urban environment. Vogelwelt 124: 93–101. [pdf]

Rutz, C. (2004). Breeding season diet of Northern Goshawks Accipiter gentilis in the city of Hamburg, Germany. Corax 19: 311–322. [pdf]

Rutz, C., Zinke, A., Bartels, T., & P. Wohlsein (2004). Congenital neuropathy and dilution of feather melanin in nestlings of urban-breeding Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis). Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 35: 97–103. [doi:10.1638/02-031.1] [pdf]

Kenward, B., Rutz, C., Weir, A.A.S., Chappell, J., & Kacelnik, A. (2004). Morphology and sexual dimorphism of the New Caledonian Crow Corvus moneduloides, with notes on its behaviour and ecology. Ibis 146: 652–660. [doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2004.00299.x] [pdf]

Rutz, C. (2005b). Extra-pair copulation and intra-specific nest intrusions in the Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis). Ibis 147: 831–835. [doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00453.x] [pdf]

Kenward, B., Weir, A.A.S., Rutz, C., & Kacelnik, A. (2005). Tool manufacture by naive juvenile crows. Nature 433: 121. [doi: 10.1038/433121a] [pdf]

Rutz, C., & Bijlsma, R. G. (2006). Food-limitation in a generalist predator. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B 273: 2069–2076. [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3507] [pdf]

Rutz, C., Bijlsma, R.G., Marquiss, M., & Kenward, R.E. (2006). Population limitation in the Northern Goshawk in Europe: a review with case studies. Studies in Avian Biology 31: 158–197. [pdf-text] [pdf-refs]

Rutz, C., Whittingham, M.J., & Newton, I. (2006). Age-dependent diet choice in an avian top predator. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B 273: 579–586. [doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3353] [pdf]

Rutz, C. (2006). Home range size, habitat use, activity patterns and hunting behaviour of urban-breeding Northern Goshawks Accipiter gentilis. Ardea 94: 185-202. [pdf-text] [pdf-editorial]

Kenward, B., Rutz, C., Weir, A.A.S., & Kacelnik, A. (2006). Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influence. Animal Behaviour 72: 1329-1343. [doi 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.04.007] [pdf]

Bluff, L.A., Weir, A.A.S., Rutz, C., Wimpenny, J.H., & Kacelnik, A. (2007). Tool-related cognition in New Caledonian crows. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews 2: 1-25. [journal website] [pdf]

Rutz, C., Bluff, L.A., Weir, A.A.S., & Kacelnik, A. (2007). Video cameras on wild birds. Science 318: 765. [doi: 10.1126/science.1146788] [pdf]

Rutz, C., & Bluff, L.A. (2008). Animal-borne imaging takes wing, or the dawn of 'wildlife video-tracking'. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 292-294. [doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.01.011] [pdf] (joint first authors)

Bluff, L.A. & Rutz, C. (2008). A quick guide to video-tracking birds. Biology Letters 4: 319-322. [doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0075] [pdf]. (joint first authors)

Rutz, C. (2008). The establishment of an urban bird population. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: in press. [pdf]

Troscianko, J., Bluff, L.A., & C. Rutz (2008). Grass-stem tool use in New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides. Ardea 96: 283–285. [pdf]

Rutz, C., & G.C. Hays (2009). New frontiers in biologging science. Biology Letters 5: in press. [doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0089]

Wimpenny J.H, Weir A.A.S., Clayton L., Rutz C., Kacelnik A. (2009) Cognitive Processes Associated with Sequential Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows. PLoS ONE 4(8): e6471. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006471.

von Bayern, A.M.P., Heathcote, R.J.P., Rutz, C., Kacelnik, A. (2009). The Role of Experience in Problem Solving and Innovative Tool Use in Crows. Current Biology, 19(22): 1965-1968. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.10.037

Bluff, L.A., Troscianko, J., Weir, A.A.S., Kacelnik, A., & Rutz, C. (2010). Tool use by wild New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides at natural foraging sites. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London), Series B: published online. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1953. [pdf]