Providing chicks with extra food lowers male but not female provisioning in the House Sparrow Passer domesticus

Ibis

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 857-866

  Cleasby, Ian R ^a   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^b   Burke, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Food supplements; Nestling survival; Parental care; Repeatability of behaviour

Indexed keywords

AGE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BROOD SIZE; FEMALE; FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; MALE; NESTLING; PASSERINE;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84884349706     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12080     Document Type: Article

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