Scientific publications
Most recent works
The illegal trade of wild birds in a social network: A call for action from Argentina
2025 - López, F.G., Rebollo, M.E., Santillán, M.A., Berkunsky, I., Cooper, N.W., Tella, J.L., Grande, J.M
Ornithological Applications 127, duaf012
Illegal and legal trade
The hidden dimension of poaching: a novel survey method shows that local demand for pets largely outnumbers domestic and international trade of Neotropical parrots
2025 - Romero-Vidal, P., Rojas, A., Herrera, M., Hiraldo, F., Díaz, J.A., Blanco, G., Carrete, M., Tella, J.L
Biological Conservation 303, 111029
Illegal and legal trade, Research methods
Habitat protection alone is insufficient: Costa Rican parrots thrive in altered landscapes but remain vulnerable to poaching
2025 - Romero-Vidal, P., Barbosa, J.M, Blanco, G., Hiraldo, F., Carrete, M., Tella, J.L
Diversity and Distributions
Illegal and legal trade, Habitat challenges
Adult sex-ratio and flock size of the cooperative breeding Eclectus parrot in Papua New Guinea
2025 - Romero-Vidal, P., Jimbo, T., Tohichem, L., Tella, J. L
Ornithology Research
Breeding and population ecology
Multi-layer networks reveal changes in plant-bird interactions driven by invasive species
2025 - Izquierdo, J., Hernández-Brito, D., Hiraldo, F., García-Callejas, D., Tella, J.L., Carrete, M
Communications Biology
Ecological functions, Non-native populations
DRC war halts biodiversity research
2025 - Romero-Vidal P, Flores L, Kaleme P, Nishuli R, Tella J.L
Nature Sustainability
Illegal and legal trade, Habitat challenges
The widespread keeping of wild pets in the Neotropics: an overlooked risk for human, livestock, and wildlife health
2024 - Romero-Vidal, P., Blanco, G., Barbosa, J.M., Carrete, M., Hiraldo, F., Pacífico, E.C., Rojas, A., Bermúdez-Cavero, A.O., Díaz-Luque, J.A., León-Pérez, R.L., Tella, J.L
People and Nature 6: 1023–1035
Illegal and legal trade, Physiology and diseases
Urban parrots in Southern South America: Challenges and opportunities
2024 - Lera, D. N., Cozzani, N., Camina, J. L., Tella, J. L., Zalba, S
Birds 5, 752-773
Habitat challenges
Power line electrocution as an overlooked threat to the Lear’s Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari)
2023 - Biasotto, L.D., Pacífico, E.C., Paschotto, F.R., Filadelfo, T., Couto, M.B., Sousa, A.E., Mantovani, P., Silveira, L.F., Ascensão, F., Tella, J.L., Kindel, A
Ibis 165, 998-1006
Other conservation threats
Poaching sources and trade routes in Peru and Ecuador warn of the unsustainable rural demand for preferred parrot species
2023 - Romero-Vidal, P., Toledo-Gonzalez, B., Bunn, L., Blanco, G., Hiraldo, F., Bermúdez, A.O., Carrete, M., Tella, J.L
Conservation Science and Practice e12936
Illegal and legal trade
Nesting innovations in Neotropical parrots associated to anthropogenic environmental changes
2023 - Romero-Vidal, P., Blanco, G., Hiraldo, F., Díaz-Luque, J.A., Luna, A., Lera, D., Zalba, S., Carrete, M., Tella, J.L
Ecology and Evolution 19, e10462
Habitat challenges, Breeding and population ecology
Birds and people: from conflict to co-existence
2023 - McMahon, B.J., Arroyo, B., Bunnefeld, N., Carrete, M., Daunt, F., Hodgson, I. & Young, J.C
Ibis 166, 23-27
Non-native populations
Anthropogenic nesting sites and density of Burrowing Parrot (Cyanoliseus patagonus) in northern Argentinian Patagonia
2023 - Lera, D.N., Cozzani, N., Tella, J.L. and Zalba, S
Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 96,10
Habitat challenges, Breeding and population ecology
Population Size, Non-Breeding Fraction, and Productivity in a Large Urban Population of Burrowing Parrots (Cyanoliseus patagonus)
2023 - Lera, D.N., Cozzani, N., Tella, J.L. and Zalba, S
Diversity 15, 1207
Breeding and population ecology
Annual Censuses and Citizen Science Data Show Rapid Population Increases and Range Expansion of Invasive Rose-Ringed and Monk Parakeets in Seville, Spain
2022 - Hernández-Brito, D., Carrete, M., and Tella, J.L
Animals, 12:677
Non-native populations, Breeding and population ecology, Research methods
Apparent lack of circovirus transmission from invasive parakeets to native birds
2022 - Blanco, G., Morinha, F., Carrete, M. and Tella, J.L
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19: 3196
Non-native populations, Physiology and diseases
Worldwide distribution of antagonistic-mutualistic relationships between parrots and palms
2022 - Carrete, M., Hiraldo, F., Romero Vidal, P., Blanco, G., Hernández-Brito, D., Sebastián-González, E., Díaz-Luque, J.A., and Tella, J.L
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, 790883
Ecological functions
Climate matching and anthropogenic factors contribute to the colonisation and extinction of local populations during avian invasions
2022 - Cardador, L., Tella, J.L., Anadón, J.D., Abellán, P., and Carrete, M
Diversity and Distributions 28: 1908-1921
Habitat challenges, Non-native populations, Breeding and population ecology
Ecology and conservation of parrots in their native and non-native ranges
2022 - Tella, J.L., Blanco, G., Carrete, M. (Eds.)
MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 431 pp
Ecological functions, Illegal and legal trade, Habitat challenges, Other conservation threats, Non-native populations, Breeding and population ecology, Population genetics, Physiology and diseases, Research methods
Confounding Rules Can Hinder Conservation: Disparities in Law Regulation on Domestic and International Parrot Trade within and among Neotropical Countries
2022 - Romero-Vidal, P., Carrete, M., Hiraldo, F., Blanco, G., Tella, J.L
Animals, 12:1244
Illegal and legal trade
Drivers of alien species composition in bird markets across the world
2022 - Su, S., Vall-llosera, M., Carrete, M., Blackburn, T.M., Cassey, P. and Tella, J.L
Ecology and Evolution 12: e8397
Illegal and legal trade
Recent Advances in Parrot Research and Conservation
2022 - Tella, J.L., Blanco, G., Carrete, M
Diversity, 14, 419
Other conservation threats
Nesting innovations allow population growth in an invasive population of rose-ringed parakeets
2022 - Hernández-Brito, D., Tella, J.L., Blanco, G., and Carrete, M
Current Zoology 68: 617-626
Breeding and population ecology
Novel food resources and conservation of ecological interactions between the Andean Araucaria and the Austral parakeet
2022 - Blanco, G., Tella, J.L., Romero-Vidal, P., Hiraldo, F
Ecology and Evolution 12, e9455
Ecological functions, Habitat challenges
Extreme uncertainty and unquantifiable bias do not inform population sizes
2022 - Robinson, O.J., Socolar, J.B., Stuber, E.F., Auer, T., Berryman, A.J., Boersch-Supan, P.H., Brightsmith, D.J., Burbidge, A.H., Butchart, S.H., Davis, C.L. Dokter, A.M., Di Giacomo, A. S., Farnsworth, A., Fink, F., Hochachka, W.M., Howell, P.E., La Sorte, F.A., Lees, A.C., Marsden, S., Martin, R., Martin, R.O., Masello, J.F., Miller, E.T., Moodley, Y., Musgrove, A., Noble, D.G., Ojeda, V., Quillfeldt, P., Royle, J.A., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Tella, J.L., Yorio, P., Youngflesh, C., and Johnston, A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(10), p.e2113862119
Breeding and population ecology, Research methods