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Maintaining humidity in a leaky nest

By Charles Deeming|2020-12-22T15:03:21+00:002 Nov 2020|incubation, incubation attentiveness, nest humidity, nesting material, passerines|

How do birds control humidity if nest walls are so leaky?

The Teal Housewives of Colorado

By Casey Setash|2020-10-06T14:11:13+00:0020 Apr 2020|behaviour, Breeding, incubation, waterbirds|

How does Cinnamon Teal incubation behavior vary with environmental conditions?

Ejecting Eggs

By Jente Ottenburghs (he/him)|2020-12-16T18:31:45+00:0016 Jan 2020|behaviour, eggs, incubation, nest monitoring|

Who do some birds remove eggs from their nest?

Moving the eggs, reallocating the warmth

By David Diez-Méndez|2020-12-16T13:16:54+00:0013 May 2019|eggs, incubation|

Is hatching asynchrony adjustable by egg repositioning during incubation?

The shape of birds’ eggs

By Tim Birkhead|2021-02-24T14:19:38+00:0024 Sep 2018|eggs, evolution, incubation, Seabirds|

Does selection during the incubation period influence egg shape?

Embryo development and blood parasites

By Vincenzo Ellis|2021-03-03T15:50:07+00:002 Jul 2018|avian malaria, incubation, parasites|

Slow embryo development is associated with increased resistance to blood parasites

Embryonic hypothermia tolerance: adaptation to disturbance?

By Yi-Qiang Fu|2021-06-08T15:07:34+00:007 Aug 2017|adaptation, Disturbance, incubation, nesting|

Unusual incubation behaviour and embryonic tolerance of hypothermia in the Sichuan Partridge

Drab females are warm mothers

By Masaru Hasegawa|2021-10-18T14:33:30+00:0017 Oct 2016|Breeding, feathers, incubation, mate selection, nesting, plumage|

Less pigmented females have warm brood patches