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Auteur Colleen A. Barber |
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Maheshi E. Dharmasiri, Auteur ; Colleen A. Barber, Auteur ; Andrew G. Horn, AuteurIn many passerine species, male song functions as an honest signal of male quality. Male age is one of these qualities, yielding benefits that are direct (e.g. breeding experience) and/or indirect (e.g. viability and good genes). Male European S[...]![]()
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Erin MacKinnon, Auteur ; Jennifer R. Foote, Auteur ; Colleen A. Barber, AuteurParent–offspring communication mediates parental provisioning rates through nestling begging. Although begging can be energetically costly and it potentially attracts predators to the nest, it is critical to nestling survival. Parent-absent begg[...]![]()
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Alyssa R. Walthers, Auteur ; Colleen A. Barber, AuteurAnthropogenic disturbances induce stress in a variety of urban species. We examined the effects of traffic noise on the physiological stress response of nestling European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Nest boxes were randomly assigned to either [...]![]()
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Colleen A. Barber, Auteur ; Megan M. Wright, AuteurABSTRACT Bird ornaments, such as plumage and song, can reflect the age of individuals. Knowledge of an individual's age and potential past breeding experience is important to future mates and to scientists studying mate-choice decisions, levels [...]![]()
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Jennifer R. Foote, Auteur ; Colleen A. Barber, Auteur ; K. Yasukawa, AuteurAbstract Using shared songs is believed to be an integral part of neighbor communication and territory establishment strategies among many avian species with repertoires. Previous studies of two western subspecies of Song Sparrows (Melospiza mel[...]![]()
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Colleen A. Barber, Auteur ; Raleigh J. Robertson, AuteurIt is well established that extra-pair young are present to varying degrees in nests of most avian species. However, the timing of extra-pair copulations during a female's fertile cycle is not well known, nor is how these copulations translate i[...]



