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Authors
Ilgūnas, Mikas https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5155-0756
Palinauskas, Vaidas
Platonova, Elena
Iezhova, Tatjana
Valkiūnas, Gediminas
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Social Fund (No 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0016)
Research Council of Lithuania (MIP-045/2015)
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Article History
Received: 28 June 2019
Accepted: 17 August 2019
First Online: 27 August 2019
Ethical statement
: The described experimental work of this study complies with the current laws of Lithuania and Russia. All experimental procedures were according to the All Union State standard (ГOCT No P53434-2009 “Principles of good laboratory practice”) of Russian Federation. All carried out experimental procedures were approved by the Biological Station Rybachy of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of sciences and are in accord with the International Research Co-operation Agreement between the Biological Station Rybachy and Nature Research Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania) (No 25-05-2010). Work with birds was also approved by the Forest and Nature Protection Agency of Kaliningrad Region, Russia (No 18, 5-05-2016). None of the experimental birds suffered apparent injury during experiments and all efforts were made to minimize handling time and potential suffering of birds.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
