Brighter great tit parents build bigger nests

Ibis

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 588-591

  Broggi, Juli ^a,b   Senar, Juan C ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carotenoid; Nest dry mass; Parus major; Plumage coloration

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; NEST SITE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 67849132300     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00946.x     Document Type: Article

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