From nest building to life-history patterns: does food supplementation influence reproductive behaviour of birds?
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Summary
This work provided two commercially available wild bird foods to Blue Tits and Great Tits breeding in a woodland in Central England from 2007 to 2009 and provided results that significantly advanced nest construction and decreased brood provisioning rates for both species.
- Type
- dissertation
- Published
- 2011-07-01
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 405
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W40079355
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:81874621
Keywords
Cyanistes, Parus, Nest (protein structural motif), Brood, Ornithology
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