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Are predation rates comparable between natural and artificial open-cup tree nests in boreal forest landscapes?

PLoS ONE, 2019
Nest predation studies often use artificial nests to secure sample sizes and nest distribution patterns that allow empirically testing differences in predation rates between ecological units of interest.
Katrine S Hoset, Magne Husby
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Consistent nest-site selection across habitats increases fitness in Asian Houbara [PDF]

, 2018
Nest-site choice profoundly influences reproductive success and the survival of incubating adults. Asian Houbara (Chlamydotis macqueenii) nest in subtly contrasting habitats where the main cause of nest failure is predation.
Burnside, Robert J., Collar, Nigel J., Dolman, Paul M., Guilherme, Joao L.   +3 more
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Nest Predation Pressure Differs Between Urban Ground- and Hole-Nesting Birds: Evidence from a Multi-Year Artificial Nest Predation Experiment

Birds
Urbanization changes the environment through physical constructions, disturbances, and altered resource availability. These modifications influence both prey and predator assemblages.
Jukka Jokimäki, Marja-Liisa Kaisanlahti-Jokimäki   +1 more
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Seasonal increase of nest height of the Silver-throated Tit (Aegithalos glaucogularis): can it reduce predation risk?

Avian Research, 2018
Background Nest predation is usually the main cause of bird nest failure. ‘Predation avoidance hypothesis’ of nest-site selection predicts that birds should prefer nest-sites with higher nesting success.
Haohui Guan, Ye Wen, Pengcheng Wang, Lei Lv, Jiliang Xu, Jianqiang Li   +5 more
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Incubating parents serve as visual cues to predators in Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus).

PLoS ONE, 2020
Ground-nesting birds face many challenges to reproduce successfully, with nest predation being the main cause of reproductive failure. Visual predators such as corvids and egg-eating raptors, are among the most common causes of nest failure; thus ...
Noémie Engel, Zsolt Végvári, Romy Rice, Vojtěch Kubelka, Tamás Székely   +4 more
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Assessing behavioral sex differences to chemical cues of predation risk while provisioning nestlings in a hole-nesting bird.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Birds can assess nest predation risk and adjust their parental activity accordingly. Risk taking behavior should be related to investment in reproduction as well as to confidence in parenthood that often differ between sexes.
Irene Saavedra, Gustavo Tomás, Luisa Amo   +2 more
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Linking Snake Behavior to Nest Predation in a Midwestern Bird Community

, 2010
Nest predators can adversely affect the viability of songbird populations, and their impact is exacerbated in fragmented habitats. Despite substantial research on this predator-prey interaction, however, almost all of the focus has been on the birds ...
Brawn, Jeffrey D., Carfagno, Gerardo L.F., Robinson, Scott K., Sperry, Jinelle H., Weatherhead, Patrick J.   +4 more
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Provision of supplementary food for wild birds may increase the risk of local nest predation [PDF]

, 2017
In countries such as the UK, USA and Australia, approximately half of households provide supplementary food for wild birds, making this the public’s most common form of active engagement with nature.
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Does nest predation affect nest-site selection in larks ?

Revue d'Écologie (La Terre et La Vie), 1996
Nest-site selection may affect nest predation rates. In this paper we analyse nest-site habitat selection in the Thekla and Lesser Short-toed larks, and compare the habitats of successful and predated nests. Both species have a preference for safe sites. At present, however, there are not habitat differences between successful and predated nests.
YANES, M., ONATE, J. J.
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Threat-sensitive anti-predator defence in precocial wader, the northern lapwing Vanellus vanellus [PDF]

, 2016
Birds exhibit various forms of anti-predator behaviours to avoid reproductive failure, with mobbing—observation, approach and usually harassment of a predator—being one of the most commonly observed. Here, we investigate patterns of temporal variation in
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