In birds, parents adjust their feeding behaviour according to breeding duties, which ultimately may lead to seasonal adjustments in nutritional physiology and hematology over the breeding season. Although avian physiology has been widely investigated in captivity, few studies have integrated individual changes in feeding and physiological ecology throughout the breeding season in wild birds. To...

background and objectives: laboratory reference values are an important tool for clinical management of patients. reference values being used in most laboratories in iran have been provided from the established reference values from developed countries. however, several variables can affect on these laboratory parameters. therefore, this study was carried out to establish the reference values o...