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| List of symbols
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| 1
| Introduction
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| 2
| Population and study area
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| 3
| Rationale and methods of thermal analysis
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| 5
| Nonmeteorological Variables
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| 6
| Meteorological Variables
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| 7
| Rationale and methods of time-activity and energy budget analysis
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| 7
| Behavioral Categories
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| 8
| Methods of Observation
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| 9
| Energy Equivalents
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| 14
| Calculation of Daily Energy Expenditure
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| 14
| Statistical Treatment
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| 15
| The thermal environment and its influence on the biology of the magpie
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| 15
| Meteorological Measurements and the Microclimatic Set
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| 18
| Calculation of Equivalent Blackbody Temperature and Its Variability
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| 22
| Annual Cycle of Equivalent Blackbody Temperature in Specific Thermal Environments
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| 27
| Time-activity and energy budgeting in the annual cycle
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| 27
| Chronology of Events in the Annual Cycle
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| 31
| Daily Time-Activity Budget
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| 33
| Metabolic Cost of Activity
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| 37
| Total Daily Energy Expenditure
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| 40
| Discussion
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| 41
| Thermal Tolerance and Geographic Distribution
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| 42
| The Bout as an Index of Behavior
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| 45
| Annual Cycle of Energy Expenditure
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| 58
| Minimizing HTD Through Adaptive Use of Time and Energy
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| 59
| Comparisons of Time Budgets of Black-billed and Yellow-billed Magpies
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| 60
| Comparisons of Daily Energy Expenditure for Several Species
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| 67
| Summary
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| 69
| Acknowledgments
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| 69
| Literature cited
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| 76
| Appendix
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| Cover to Cover
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