Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: Effects of climate and species characteristics across body regions

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We thank H. van Grouw, M. Adams and A. Bond from the Bird Group at the Natural History Museum at Tring for providing access to and expertise in the collection used in this study. We also thank A. Estrada, D. G\u00F3mez, E. Harscouet, N. Merino\u2010Recalde and A. Fargevieille for their technical, analytical and conceptual help and U. Johansson for sharing the Paridae tree used in our analyses. We appreciate the work and time of the three anonymous reviewers who helped to improve previous versions of this manuscript. This work was funded by a Synthesis+ grant (GB\u2010TAF\u2010TA3\u2010027 20) from the European Commission granted to D.L.\u2010I. D.L.\u2010I. was funded by a postdoctoral grant from the Basque Government Department of Education (POS\u20102019\u20101\u20100026).