Variation in Plumage Coloration of Rosy-Faced Lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis): Links to Sex, Age, Nutritional Condition, Viral Infection, and Habitat Urbanization.
Circovirus parrot
Gammapolyomavirus avis
condition‐dependent signaling
parrots
sexual dichromatism
Journal
Journal of experimental zoology. Part A, Ecological and integrative physiology
ISSN: 2471-5646
Titre abrégé: J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101710204
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
16 Sep 2024
16 Sep 2024
Historique:
revised:
17
07
2024
received:
18
04
2024
accepted:
23
08
2024
medline:
17
9
2024
pubmed:
17
9
2024
entrez:
16
9
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Expression of vibrant plumage color plays important communication roles in many avian clades, ranging from penguins to passerines, but comparatively less is known about color signals in parrots (order Psittaciformes). We measured variation in coloration from three plumage patches (red face, blue rump, red tail) in an introduced population of rosy-faced lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis) in Phoenix, Arizona, USA and examined color differences between the sexes and ages as well as relationships with several indices of quality, including disease presence/absence (infection with beak and feather disease, Circovirus parrot, and a polyomavirus, Gammapolyomavirus avis), nutritional state (e.g., blood glucose and ketone levels), and habitat type from which birds were captured. We found that different plumage colors were linked to different quality indices: (a) adults had redder faces than juveniles, and birds with brighter faces had lower glucose levels and were less likely to have polyomavirus; (b) males had bluer rumps than females; and (c) birds caught farther from the city had redder and darker tail feathers than those caught closer to the urban center. Our findings reveal diverse information underlying variation in the expression of these disparate, ornate feather traits in an introduced parrot species, and suggest that these condition-dependent and/or sexually dichromatic features may serve important intraspecific signaling roles (i.e., mediating rival competitions or mate choices).
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eng
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Subventions
Organisme : This work was financially supported by the National Science Foundation (DEB-2224662; Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Program, CAP LTER).
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© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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