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Food supplementation does not increase demographic rates in a passerine species of conservation concern

open access: yesNature Conservation, 2015
Numerous studies have examined the effects of the provision of supplementary food on aspects of avian reproductive success, but far fewer have gone on to examine the potential positive effects of food supplementation on the demographic rates which are ...
Innes M.W. Sim   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post-Fledging Behavior of Purple Martins

open access: yes, 1978
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +2 more sources

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Postfledging movements and site persistence of Saxicola rubetra in the abandoned fields in Russky Sever National Park (north of European Russia)

open access: yesNature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука
The post-fledging period, usually defined as the time between when a bird fledges and disperses outside the natal site, is an important critical stage in the life cycle of open-nesting passerines.
Dmitry A. Shitikov   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post-fledging family behavior in the Jungle Crow

open access: yesJournal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, 1969
In 1969, a pair of Jungle Crow Corvus levaillatii japonensis bred, as in the previous year, in a ginko tree about 70m from the author's home in central Tokyo. They were kept under observation from incubation period through fledging and later periods. In this paper, their post-fledging family behavior is reported.1. There were two periods for the chicks
openaire   +2 more sources

Variation in growth in sandwich tern chicks Sterna sandvicensis and the consequences for pre- and post-fledging mortality

open access: yes, 2002
Fitness consequences of variation in body mass growth and body condition were studied in a sandwich tern Sterna sandvicensis colony on Griend, Dutch Wadden Sea, during 1990-2000.
Stienen, E.W.M.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
wiley   +1 more source

Age-specific mortality, pre- to post-fledging carryover effects, and the timing of fledging in altricial songbirds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Evidence accumulated over recent decades has implicated age-specific mortality as a critical factor shaping life histories, particularly with respect to the mortality of dependent offspring.
Jones, Todd Michael
core  

From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Fledging success.

open access: yes, 2015
Fledging success on main study sites in 2010.Fledging success.
Borgný Katrínardóttir (768225)   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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