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Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) initiate southward migration from their North American breeding grounds in late summer, making trans-Gulf flights to overwinter in South America. As such, this species displays a f...
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Here today, not gone tomorrow: long-term effects of corticosterone
There is a growing body of evidence from across animal taxa that exposure to elevated levels of glucocorticoids during development can have profound long-term effects upon physiological and behavioral phenotyp...
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A reply to Dhondt: broodedness and latitude affect the response of reproductive timing of birds to food supplementation
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Cryptic plumage signaling in Aphelocoma Scrub-Jays
Recent studies of avian vision and plumage coloration have revealed a surprising degree of cryptic sexual dimorphism, with many examples of male–female differences in UV reflectance that are invisible to human...
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Food supplementation and timing of reproduction: does the responsiveness to supplementary information vary with latitude?
Food supplementation usually advances the timing of laying. Here, we report a meta-analysis of 35 food supplementation studies demonstrating that species at high latitudes are less responsive to food supplemen...