Nest size is predicted by female identity and the local environment in the blue tit (<i>Cyanistes caeruleus</i>), but is not related to the nest size of the genetic or foster mother.

Results In total we measured 803 nests in the standardized nest box design from a total of 596 different females in 629 nest boxes; however, sample sizes for most of our analyses are subsets of these 803 (as detailed in table 1 ). Female identity showed a highly significant relationship with nest size (LMM 223 , χ 2 = 21.48, p < 0.001), as shown in table 2 .

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Nest size also varied among years; however, this effect was weaker than that for compartment and was not quite statistically significant ( F 2,801 = 2.555, p = 0.078, R 2 = 0.069, table 11 ).

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Although linear models are relatively robust to deviations from normality [ 32 ], our tests of significance should be viewed as tentative, especially in cases of marginal significance.

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