Most birds are socially monogamous with both parents providing offspring care, but sometimes individuals are observed to provision at a nest that is not their own. One possible explanation for this be
Many songbirds are socially monogamous but genetically polyandrous, mating with individuals outside their pair bonds. Extra-pair paternity (EPP) varies within and across species, but reasons for this
Raw ddRAD-seq 150 base pair, single-end sequences from a Illumina HiSeq X for 10 wood ducks (Aix sponsa) obtained from a single nest in Delaware. These include 2 breeding and competing females and 8 e
Many bird species produce two annual broods during a single breeding season. However, not all individuals reproduce twice in the same year suggesting that double brooding is condition-dependent. In co
