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Jin YU, Peng-Cheng WANG, Lei LÜ, Zheng-Wang ZHANG, Yong WANG, Ji-Liang XU, Jian-Qiang LI, Bo XI, Jia-Gui ZHU, Zhi-Yong DU. 2016. Diurnal brooding behavior of long-tailed tits (Aegithalos caudatus glaucogularis). Zoological Research, 37(2): 84-89. DOI: 10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2016.2.84
Citation: Jin YU, Peng-Cheng WANG, Lei LÜ, Zheng-Wang ZHANG, Yong WANG, Ji-Liang XU, Jian-Qiang LI, Bo XI, Jia-Gui ZHU, Zhi-Yong DU. 2016. Diurnal brooding behavior of long-tailed tits (Aegithalos caudatus glaucogularis). Zoological Research, 37(2): 84-89. DOI: 10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2016.2.84
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Diurnal brooding behavior of long-tailed tits (Aegithalos caudatus glaucogularis)

  • 1 School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China;

  • 2 College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;

  • 3 School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Alabama A & M University, Alabama 35762, USA;

  • 4 Dongzhai National Nature Reserve, Luoshan Henan 464236, China

Funds: This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31472011)
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    Ji-Liang XU, Jian-Qiang

  • Received Date: December 10, 2015
  • Revised Date: February 21, 2016
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  • Brooding is a major breeding investment of parental birds during the early nestling stage, and has important effects on the development and survival of nestlings. Investigating brooding behavior can help to understand avian breeding investment strategies. From January to June in 2013 and 2014, we studied the brooding behaviors of long-tailed tits (Aegithalos caudatus glaucogularis) in Dongzhai National Nature Reserve, Henan Province, China. We analyzed the relationships between parental diurnal brooding duration and nestling age, brood size, temperature, relative breeding season, time of day and nestling frequencies during brooding duration. Results showed that female and male long-tailed tit parents had different breeding investment strategies during the early nestling stage. Female parents bore most of the brooding investment, while male parents performed most of the nestling feedings. In addition, helpers were not found to brood nestlings at the two cooperative breeding nests. Parental brooding duration was significantly associated with the food delivered to nestlings (F=86.10, df=1, 193.94, P<0.001), and was longer when the nestlings received more food. We found that parental brooding duration declined significantly as nestlings aged (F=5.99, df=1, 50.13, P=0.018). When nestlings were six days old, daytime parental brooding almost ceased, implying that longtailed tit nestlings might be able to maintain their own body temperature by this age. In addition, brooding duration was affected by both brood size (F=12.74, df=1, 32.08, P=0.001) and temperature (F=5.83, df=1, 39.59, P=0.021), with it being shorter in larger broods and when ambient temperature was higher.
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