Mixed-species flock sizes and compositions influence flock members’ success in three field experiments with novel feeders

• Todd M. Freeberg ,

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

  * E-mail: tfreeber@utk.edu

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3807-4147

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• Colton B. Adams,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9400-4612

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• Charles A. Price,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4737-9033

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• Monica Papeş

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America, National Institute for Mathematical & Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States of America

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