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- Title
Feeding a Foreign Chick: a Case of a Mixed Brood of Two Tit Species.
- Authors
Suzuki, Toshitaka N.; Tsuchiya, Yuko
- Abstract
We report on a mixed brood of Great (Parus major) and Varied (Poecile varius) tits. The brood consisted of one Great Tit and five Varied Tits. Incubation and food provisioning to nestlings were by adult Varied Tits, but not by adult Great Tits. The foreign Great Tit nestling tended to receive more food than the average Varied Tit nestling. Provisioning of the foreign Great Tit by Varied Tits lasted even after fledging. We discuss the causes and outcomes of this rare phenomenon.
- Subjects
GREAT tit; POECILE; BABY birds; BIRD food
- Publication
Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 2010, Vol 122, Issue 3, p618
- ISSN
1559-4491
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1676/09-192.1