The blue tit
Reflectance variation in the blue tit crown in relation to feather structure
... the blue tit, further observational and experimental studies are needed to elucidate the phenotypic plasticity and quality indicator value of the structural determinants of crown colour we identified here, ...
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Family Conflicts over Parental Care in the Blue Tit, Cyanistes caerleus
... fledging body mass (Perrins 1979; N ur 1984a). There will be, therefore, strong selective pressure on nestling com petitive ability and this may m anifest itself in strategic and context-dependent nestling begging ...
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Faecal sac removal and parental coordination in relation to parental predation risk in the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
... the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), as well as investigating another component of parental coordination, provisioning synchrony, and examining both in response to heightened perception of parental predation ...
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Do glucocorticoids predict fitness? : Linking environmental conditions, corticosterone and reproductive success in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus
... of blue tits were studied over 3 years that differed in environmental ...The blue tit provides an ideal model system, as the ecological variables that influence fitness are well known, and ecological ...
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Individual variation in corticosterone and personality traits in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus
... day 2 mass at capture from wild) and baseline plasma Cort concentrations for juveniles (circles,. 10[r] ...
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Plasticity of foraging strategies in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus and the domestic chick, Gallus gallus domesticus
... predator treatment or the predator treatment, while trying to keep a balanced number of both AC and DC individuals in each group. Prior to taking part in the experiment, birds were food deprived for one hour before being ...
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Carotenoid availability in diet and phenotype of blue and great tit nestlings
... great tit Parus major and the blue tit Parus caeruleus, and measured nestling antioxidants, body condition, immunity and plumage ...carotenoid-fed blue tit nestlings, plasma vitamin E ...
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Delhey, J. Kaspar V. (2005): Sexual selection and blue tit (Parus caeruleus) crown coloration. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... 2002). However, adult males are often cuckolded as much as juveniles (Chapter 1, 4). This lack of consistency between within- and extra-pair success suggest that female choice alone cannot explain why adult males sire ...
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Loës, Corinna (2012): Variation in sleep behaviour and its underlying causes: a study in a free-living blue tit population. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... Corinna Steinmeyer, Jakob C. Mueller and Bart Kempenaers ABSTRACT The identification of functional polymorphisms in genes that underlie behavioural trait variation is a challenging but intriguing task in evolutionary ...
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Yolk carotenoids increase fledging success in great tit nestlings
... colour vision in birds depends on four types of sin- gle cones: UV sensitive, short-wave sensitive (sWs), medium-wave sensitive, long-wave sensitive. Using had- field’s sPec package (2005), we estimated the amount of ...
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Genetic Variation and Causes of Genotype-Environment Interaction in the Body Size of Blue Tit (Parus caeruleus)
... ABSTRACT In several studies of natural populations of birds, the heritability of body size estimated by parent- offspring regression has been lower when offspring have developed in poor feeding regimens than when they ...
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CS5412: TORRENTS AND TIT-FOR-TAT
... Peer Tracker 2 www.bittorrent.com File popeye.mp4.torrent hosted at a (well-known) webserver. The .torrent has address of[r] ...
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IN THE GREAT TIT PARUS MAJOR
... and the mean for each clutch computed], clutch size, hatching date (date of hatching of the first egg), relative hatching date (difference between the actual hatching date of ea[r] ...
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Sparrowhawk movement, calling, and presence of dead conspecifics differentially impact blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) vocal and behavioral mobbing responses
... from blue tits, thereby providing more detailed information about the differences in blue tit perception and responses to predators with different predatory ...
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Prey type Cuckoo (%) Great Tit (%)
... Importantly, both literature and our data clearly show that tits are able to successfully rear a Cuckoo chick till fledging. Here, we add a new case of a successful natural Cuckoo parasitism of the Great Tit in ...
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(the great tit: Parus major) suitable for
... Individual limits of quantifications (LOQs; ng/mL), mean and median concentrations (ng/mL), concentrations range (ng/mL) and detection frequencies (DF; %) in blood plasma from great tit[r] ...
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Nest desertion is not predicted by cuckoldry in the Eurasian penduline tit
... EPY did not grow faster than WPY, nor did EPY appear to survive better from egg to nestling than WPY, as brood size was not predicted by the proportion of EPY in a nest. Also, overall, no difference in heterozygosity ...
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Inducible Games: Using Tit for Tat to Stabilize Outcomes
... We apply this framework to all 2 2 games of conflict, of which PD is just one. 2 We identify in which games this commitment, if believed, can induce an outcome favorable to the detecting player if its detector is ...
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Overlapping breeding attempts in the Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
... Abstract Background: Overlapping of successive broods is a relatively rare breeding strategy that allows individuals to make effective use of the available reproductive window. Methods: In this paper we analyse the ...
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Habitat modelling and the ecology of the marsh tit (Poecile palustris).
... Marsh Tit habitat using lidar data, Broughton et ...Marsh Tit occupation and nest placement that was not available from previous studies, and also confirmed some results from earlier work (summarised in ...
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