Nature: Great tits who meet their 'spouses' earlier are more likely to breed successfully
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Researchers from Oxford tracked hundreds of breeding pairs of great tits in a nearby wood to determine how the speed of pairing impacted the birds lives as a couple.
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Parental care in birds - Wikipedia
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Female great tits (Parus major) reproduce earlier when paired with a male they prefer - Delaitre - 2023 - Ethology - Wiley Online Library
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Purple herons nest in UK for first time, Birds
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Birds die around us all the time, so why do I never see a dead one?
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The Truth About Lions, Science
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Will Ozempic Change How We Think About Being Fat and Being Thin?
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More ornamented females produce higher-quality offspring in a socially monogamous bird: an experimental study in the great tit (Parus major), Frontiers in Zoology
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Country diary: It's started – the blue tits are house-hunting, Birds
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Birds and bees: why new buildings need to support the natural world
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Birds of the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve by The Singing Magpie Press - Issuu
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