Attracting Bluebirds

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Using molt limits to age Western Bluebirds

Using data on the extent of prebasic molt in known-aged adult and first-winter Western Bluebirds (Sialia mexicana), we assessed the accuracy of the molt limit as a tool for ageing birds. Sixty-nine known-aged birds were examined over the winter 2002–2003 in upper Carmel Valley, California. We also examined 29 breeding males in spring 2004 to assess the accuracy of this method for ageing birds d...

Sex-specific costs of reproduction in Eastern Bluebirds Sialia sialis.

In species with bi-parental care, individuals must partition energy between parental effort and mating effort. Typically, female songbirds invest more than males in reproductive activities such as egg-laying and incubation, but males invest more in secondary sexual traits used in attracting mates. Animals that breed more than once within a season must also allocate time and energy between first...

Ergodicity of self - attracting motion ∗

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a class of self-attracting motions on R. We prove the decrease of the free energy related to the system and mix it together with stochastic approximation methods. We finally obtain the (limit-quotient) ergodicity of the self-attracting diffusion with a speed of convergence.

Attracting more residents into nephrology.

Understanding what attracts trainees to a specialty, in this case nephrology, is elusive. Some factors relate to the individual, their personality andneeds; some factors are related to the field, including characteristics of daily work, patient problems, and an individual’s experience with nephrology and the people; and other factors are idiosyncratic. The reduced number of nephrology fellowshi...