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Feather concentrations (mean ± s.d.) of corticosterone, cortisol and testosterone in house sparrows that subsequently were confirmed to be alive (white bars) or inferred to have died (grey bars). All three steroids were significantly higher in the feathers of sparrows that subsequently died.
