Males feed their mates more and take more risks for nestlings with larger female-built nests: an experimental study in the Nuthatch Sitta europaea

Nest size has been suggested to be a sexually selected signal, allowing individuals to obtain reliable information about partner quality and thereby optimize paternal investment in reproduction. Studies concerning the potential role of nests as signals are scarce for avian species in which the femal...

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