Hauber, Mark E. - In: Behavioral Ecology 14 (2003) 2, pp. 227-235
adult mass, surrogate measures of the hatching asynchrony and size difference between parasite and hosts, were both related … contents of eastern phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) and examined whether earlier hatching by a single cowbird or phoebe egg reduces … the size of the rest of the original host brood. As predicted, greater hatching asynchrony increased the proportion of the …