Playback of male song advanced onset of nest building but not initial egg date or breeding synchrony in the Great Tit Parus major

Gong, Y; Qin, B; Qin, YF; Sun, W; Wang, HT

Wang, HT (corresponding author), Northeast Normal Univ, Sch Life Sci, Jilin Engn Lab Avian Ecol & Conservat Genet, Changchun 130024, Peoples R China.; Sun, W (corresponding author), Northeast Normal Univ, Inst Grassland Sci, Key Lab Vegetat Ecol, Minist Educ, Changchun 130024, Peoples R China.

JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY, 2020; 161 (2): 585

Abstract

Social stimulation can hasten and synchronize breeding in colonial species. However, whether it affects reproductive timing in territorial species, or......

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