Identifying the parents of offspring from a pool of candidate parents is critical for estimating the reproductive effort and success of individuals in populations, and for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies generally. However, the existence of alternative reproductive tactics such as conspecific brood parasitism and extra-pair matings often makes assigning parentage and estimating
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