Food restricted Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) nestlings increase vocal activity during handling without modulating total or free corticosterone y

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 277-283

  Williams, Cory T ^a   Kitaysky, Alexander S ^a   Buck, C Loren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Begging; Corticosterone; Nutritional Stress; Seabird; Tufted Puffin

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; NESTLING; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; SEABIRD; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; FRATERCULA CIRRHATA;

EID: 41349090560     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-008-0274-1     Document Type: Article

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