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Feeling the heat?

By Ashleigh Marshall (she/her)|2024-10-03T08:55:20+00:003 Oct 2024|captive-bred, climate change, domesticated, eggshell thickness, experiment, heat, passerines, stress, wild-derived|

Decreased eggshell thickness at high ambient temperatures in Zebra Finches

City birds have fewer feathers

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2022-06-04T09:01:28+00:002 Jun 2022|adaptation, Breeding, diet, forest birds, heat, nestlings, non-invasive sampling, thermoregulation, Urban birds|

Could it be due to thermoregulation or food quality?

Sex can’t help you when it’s hot

By Amanda Bourne|2021-06-25T09:15:21+00:008 Oct 2018|BOU-funded, cooperative breeding, Grants Committee, heat, News, temperature|

High temperatures suppress growth equally in male and female Southern Pied Babbler nestlings