Sexual conflict occurs in socially biparental species because working together provides shared benefits while incurring individual costs. In birds, coordination of nest visits (or turn-taking) during chick provisioning has been suggested as a strategy to mitigate this conflict. This alternation of visits requires that birds have access to information on their partner’s behaviour, allowing pairs to respond to each other “in real time”. To date, evidence in support of this has come from species that likely have direct information on their partners, i.e., close foraging distances or synchronized feeding visits. Further, there has been little discussion in regards to ecological context – how annual variation, brood type, and paternal effort might affect coordination. Here we describe parental behaviour during chick rearing in the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris, where direct access to information is unlikely and there is marked variation in the amount of paternal care that each nest receives. We analyzed provisioning visit times over 4 consecutive years, for first and second broods along a continuum of brood sizes and chick ages, to determine how parental behaviour varies with ecological context. Using inter-visit interval as our focal measure, we also tested the hypothesis that parents adjust their interval length, or return time, based on knowledge of their partner’s feeding behaviour. Our data show that females adjust their visit times in response to their partner while males do not, in what we deem to be “asymmetric coordination”. We will present preliminary results from a direct test of this hypothesis using a mate removal experiment.