Research Note: It's not just stress-fecal contamination of plumage may affect feather corticosterone concentration.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.psj.2021.101494
Abstract: The feather corticosterone concentration (fCORT) is increasingly used to assess long-term stress in birds as this indicator provides the potential to retrospectively evaluate the adrenocortical activity of a bird during the growth period of a… read more here.
Keywords: feather corticosterone; fcort; contamination; contamination plumage ... See more keywords
Feather corticosterone reveals that urban great tits experience lower corticosterone exposure than forest individuals during dominance-rank establishment
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DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coad033
Abstract: Aggressive interactions between city-dwelling great tits could be more frequent due to higher population densities compared with forest habitats. However, urban great tits had lower levels of corticosterone (“stress hormones”) in feathers suggesting that competing… read more here.
Keywords: corticosterone reveals; urban great; corticosterone; great tits ... See more keywords