Exogenous corticosterone and melanin-based coloration explain variation in juvenile dispersal behaviour in the barn owl (Tyto alba)

• Bettina Almasi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bettina Almasi, Carolina Massa

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bettina.almasi@vogelwarte.ch

  Affiliation Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4962-8117

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• Carolina Massa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bettina Almasi, Carolina Massa

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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• Lukas Jenni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland

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• Alexandre Roulin

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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