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Tracking stress: localisation, deposition and stability of corticosterone in feathers

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Physiological Stress Mediates the Honesty of Social Signals

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THE TIMING OF BIRDS‘ BREEDING SEASONS

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The timing of birds' breeding seasons: a review of experiments that manipulated timing of breeding

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