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Nest and species characteristics for North American passerines

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A data frame with 83 observations on the following 13 variables.

Species Latin species name
Common Common species name
Page Page in a bird manual describing the species
Length Mean body length for the species (in cm)
Nesttype Type of nest
Location Location of nest
No.eggs Number of eggs
Color Egg color (0=plain/solid or 1=speckled/spotted)
Incubate Mean length of time (in days) the species incubates eggs in the nest
Nestling Mean length of time (in days) the species cares for babies in the nest until fledged
Totcare Total care time = Incubate+Nestling
Closed 1=closed nest (pendant, spherical, cavity, crevice, burrow), 0=open nest (saucer, cup)

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Nest Characteristics for Different Bird Species_1093_70.csv

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Project by Amy Moore at Grinnell College

References

The Birders Handbook, by Ehrlich, et al. (1988)

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Use the following R code to directly access this dataset in R.

d <- read.csv("https://www.key2stats.com/Nest_Characteristics_for_Different_Bird_Species_1093_70.csv")

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