Provisioning adjustments by male and female fairy martins to short-term manipulations of brood size

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1119-1132

  Magrath, Michael J L ^a   Janson, Jasper ^b   Komdeur, Jan ^b   Elgar, Mark A ^a   Mulder, Raoul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brood size; Fairy martin; Feeding rate; Hirundo ariel; Parental care; Provisioning

Indexed keywords

AVES; HIRUNDO ARIEL;

EID: 34548635913     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907781871815     Document Type: Article

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