Habitat quality affects early physiology and subsequent neuromotor development of juvenile black-capped chickadees.

In songbirds, the ability to learn and render the species-specific song is influenced by the development of both the song nuclei in the brain and the syrinx (bird's vocal apparatus) early in the bird's life. In black-capped chickadees (Poecille atricapillus), habitat quality is known to af...

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Main Authors: Thibault Grava, Graham D Fairhurst, Marc T Avey, Angelique Grava, James Bradley, Jillian L Avis, Gary R Bortolotti, Christopher B Sturdy, Ken A Otter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3741205?pdf=render