%0 Journal Article
%T Equitable Chick Survival in Three Species of the Non-Migratory Shorebird Despite Species-Specific Sexual Dimorphism of the Young
%A Craig D. H. Sherman
%A Grainne S. Maguire
%A Michael A. Weston
%A Peter Dann
%A Tom Schmidt
%J Archive of "Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI".
%D 2019
%R 10.3390/ani9050271
%X We aimed to determine whether seasonal brood sex-ratio, sex-biased chick survival, and sex specific dimorphism at hatching or during growth occurs among three species of resident Australian shorebird. Our results describe no sex-bias in chick production, survival or growth rates between sexes for any of the three species studied
%K lapwing
%K plover
%K precocial
%K survival
%K growth
%K sex-ratio
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6562553/