Sentence examples for nestling stage from inspiring English sources

> -wrap-foot> Data were collected in the nestling stage, and nestlings were size-ranked (1 or 2) based on their wing length.

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).

If infection of a Trichomonas-type protozoan could be acquired during the tyrannosaurid nestling stage we would expect to find occasional nestlings that had died of an acute disease course due to a naïve immune system as is seen in modern birds.

Our data support a prediction of the developmental hypothesis, which suggests that altricial nestlings gradually increase their glucocorticoid stress response during the nestling stage until exhibiting an adult like profile [48].

Mortality was higher during the egg stage than during the nestling stage.

The best model for the nestling stage included a small effect of turbine proximity, with nest survival being slightly higher, though not significantly so, closer to turbines.

We modeled daily nest survival rates during the incubation and nestling stages in program MARK.

At all three nestling stages, partners of focal birds significantly increased their provisioning rates (paired t-tests: early-stage, t56 = 3.3, p = 0.001; mid-stage, t45 = 2.4, p = 0.017; late-stage, t26 = 4.0, p<0.001; Figure 3).

At all three nestling stages, focal bird provisioning rate increased relative to the control period following playback of begging calls (paired t-tests: early-stage, t57 = 4.6, p<0.001; mid-stage, t45 = 3.8, P = 0.001; late-stage, t26 = 5.0, p<0.001; see Figure 2).

However, if this was the case one would expect parents to exactly match the feeding rate of their manipulated partner, whereas we find exact matching in only 7% of observations at day 4, and in only 24% of observations at the later nestling stages.

We predicted a sex difference in response to focal bird work-rate at the early-nestling stage, when information available to the two sexes is asymmetrical.