All birds construct nests in which to lay eggs and/or raise offspring. Traditionally, it was
thought that natural selection and the requirement to minimize the risk of predation …

Incubation in birds is energetically demanding and the energy invested to maintain egg
temperature can influence the outcome of a reproductive event and therefore the lifetime …

Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour provides a broad view of our understanding of the
biology of the nests, bowers and tools made by birds. It illustrates how, among vertebrates …

This book is a comprehensive study of nest-building behavior in birds. A much-needed
synthesis of the previously scattered literature on this central aspect of avian biology, it is …

Construction behaviour occurs across the entire spectrum of the animal kingdom and affects
the survival of both builders and other organisms associated with them. Animal Architecture …

Colonially nesting Cliff Swallows (Passeriformes: Hirundo pyrrhonota) in southwestern
Nebraska, USA, are commonly parasitized by hematophagous swallow bugs (Hemiptera …

Avian ecological energetics Page 186 Chapter 3 AVIAN ECOLOGICAL ENERGETICS Glenn E.
Walsberg I. Introduction A. Scope. B. Limitations of the Data.. 161 161 162 C. Special …

I have chosen to address three major areas in the energetics of free-ranging adult seabirds:
basal metabolism, locomotion, and energy budgets. More information is available on basal …

Parental investment in reproduction is generally limited by the availability of food and so
avian life-history research has generally focused on the brood rearing phase, when food …

At temperatures below 28° C, rate of oxygen consumption (V̇ O 2) of Zebra Finches
(Poephila guttata) incubating eggs averaged 20% higher than the V̇ O 2 of non-incubating …