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Life in the slow lane: Reproductive life history of the White-browed Scrubwren, an Australian endemic

Magrath, Robert D; Leedman, A; Gardner, Janet; Giannasca, A; Nathan, A; Yezerinac, S; Nicholls, James

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An understanding of geographic and phylogenetic variation in passerine life histories is hampered by the scarcity of studies from the Southern Hemisphere. We documented the breeding biology of the White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis), an Australia endemic in the Pardalotidae (parvorder Corvida). Like other members of the Pardalotidae, scrubwrens had a long laying interval (two days), a long incubation period (declining from 21 to 17 days through the season), and a long period of...[Show more]

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Date published: 2000
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/91302
Source: Auk

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