Table 1. Assignment of social partners and extra-pair males to females for copulation trials.
Trial # | Pairing | Social partner | Clutch | Extra-pair male |
1 | 1 | B2 or 3 | 1 | B1 |
2 | 1 | B2 or 3 | 1 | B4 |
3 | 1 | B2 or 3 | 2 | B4 |
4 | 1 | B2 or 3 | 2 | B1 |
5 | 2 | A2 or 3 | 1 | A4 |
6 | 2 | A2 or 3 | 1 | A1 |
7 | 2 | A2 or 3 | 2 | A1 |
8 | 2 | A2 or 3 | 2 | A4 |
Assignment is based on choice-chamber tests where the female ranked males in the order A1>A2>A3>A4 and B1>B2>B3>B4 (descending order of time allocation). Clutch denotes the number of the breeding attempt with the given social partner.