Post-fledging care, philopatry and recruitment in brown thornbills
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Green, David; Cockburn, Andrew
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1. We describe patterns of post-fledging care, dispersal and recruitment in four cohorts of brown thornbills Acanthiza pusilla. We examine what factors influence post-fledging survival and determine how post-fledging care and the timing of dispersal influence the probability of recruitment in this small, pair breeding, Australian passerine. 2. Fledgling thornbills were dependent on their parents for approximately 6 weeks. Male fledglings were more likely than female fledglings to survive until...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2001 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/91764 |
Source: | Journal of Animal Ecology |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2001.00503.x |
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