Sentence examples for late nestling from inspiring English sources

The analysis of video recordings of four nests during the late nestling phase (chicks older than eight days) confirmed that male nightingales contribute to chick feeding.

Both network measures were calculated and then averaged for all possible nodes or pairs of nodes in a network In a pilot study on nestling provisioning in nightingales (conducted in 2008 and 2009), we obtained video recordings (recording time: ~2 h per nest) from four nests during the late nestling phase (chicks older than eight days).

When the change in feeding rate was compared between mid- and late-nestling stages we found that nestling stage had no effect on the change in provisioning rate (χ21 = 0.33, p = 0.566).

We used a generalized linear mixed effects model, with 'nest' as a random factor to compare the information available to carers at mid- and late-nestling phases.

To quantify the information available to carers during the late-nestling phase (day 10), we filmed nests from outside at a distance of c. 1.5 m (n = 10 nests).

Finally, we investigated whether the relative information available to parents at the mid- and late-nestling phases led to any difference in response to an increase in partner work-rate.

We found a highly significant difference in the number of chicks visible between the mid- and late-nestling periods (χ21 = 138.12, p<0.001): on days 6 7, an average proportion of 0.81±0.02 SE of the brood was visible to carers, while only 0.19±0.01 of the brood was visible to carers at day 10 12.

At mid- and late-nestling stages there was no sex difference in response, but initial feeding rate during the control period had a significant effect on the magnitude of increase in work- rate, so that parents that fed at lower rates before playback increased their feeding rate to a greater degree (Table 2).

Late in the nestling phase when both parents have symmetrical, partial information we would expect both parents to increase their own feeding rate to match that of their partners.

The first three habitat types were generally characterised by field layers kept permanently shorter than 5 cm, whereas the latter three habitat types were characterised by field layers growing dense and tall (≥15 cm) during late incubation and nestling care (field layer height estimated by eye at four occasions during the breeding season [35], [37]).

Furthermore, we only included males that had at least one social fledgling, because otherwise, males who's nests failed late in the nestling phase would have a greater likelihood of inclusion in the data set compared to males that failed earlier in the nestling phase (before capture), potentially biasing our findings.