Female birds tend to lay consecutive eggs in a clutch 24 h apart. Typically, this spacing results in individuals laying within a narrow interval corresponding to a time of day generalizable at the population level. In contrast to this trend, we found that females in a coastal-breeding population of King Rails (
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1 December 2018
Variable laying times among King Rails (Rallus elegans )
Katie M. Schroeder,
Susan B. McRae
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avian egg laying
conspecific brood parasitism
evolutionary ecology
laying time
rallidae