José Jambas

Sep 15, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Juan Vicente Oltra |Javier Garcia |Javier García |Isidoro Carbonell |José Jambas

1 INTRODUCTION Birds exhibit enormous interspecific variability in their life histories, which affects the process by which offspring acquire independence (Mainwaring, 2016). Parental duties during the period of offspring dependence are variably prolonged depending on the position of each species on the altricial–precocial continuum, and due to intraspecific factors (Ar & Yom-Tov, 1978; Ducatez & Field, 2021).