This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Asynchronous hatching has been studied extensively in altricial birds that feed their offspring, but this phenomenon is also known to occur ...

Research led by University of California, Berkeley, biologists has implicated microbial infection as a culprit for why some birds start incubating eggs in a nest before the clutch is complete, ...

We examined hatching patterns and nestling mortality in 118 European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) broods from 1983-1986 in central New Jersey. At most nests hatching began on the morning of the ...