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Predator guards on nest boxes improve nesting success of birds
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2017 Humans have long provided nest boxes in a widespread and popular effort to augment nesting sites for cavity‐nesting birds. Nest boxes, however, may provide easy access for predators and thereby create ecological traps for nesting birds.
Robyn Bailey, David Bonter
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Breeding success is an important factor determining fecundity with nest predation being the main factor limiting avian breeding success. Understanding of nest predation and its influencing factors are highly significant to explore the dynamics of bird ...
Wang Hesheng, He Binbin, Li Jialing
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Visual and Olfactory Concealment of Duck Nests: Influence on Nest Site Selection and Success
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 Selecting a nest site is an important decision for waterfowl. Because most nest failure is due to depredation, the primary selective pressure in choosing a nest site should be to reduce depredation risk. This task is difficult, however, because predators
Michael R. Conover
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Differing selection pressures on stationary nest contents compared to mobile offspring mean that the nest-site characteristics resulting in the highest nest success may not be the same characteristics that result in the highest survival of juveniles from
Jeanine M. Refsnider +6 more
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Nest Success of Gunnison Sage-Grouse in Colorado, USA. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Gunnison Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus minimus) is a species of concern for which little demographic information exists. To help fill this information gap, we investigated factors affecting nest success in two populations of Gunnison Sage-Grouse. We assessed
Amy J Davis +2 more
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Nest architecture is linked with ecological success in songbirds [PDF]
Ecology Letters, 2021 Bird nests are essential structures that directly determine the fitness of an organism. While there is theory and evidence predicting an association between species nest traits and their habitat, few studies have comprehensively examined the macroevolutionary patterns driving nest evolution, species niche and their interrelation.
Iliana Medina +6 more
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iScience, 2023 Summary: In birds, little is known about how individuals choose nest sites based on their personality traits. Here, we investigate whether a female’s personality (activity and breathing rate) can affect patterns of nest site selection at different ...
Yingqiang Lou +7 more
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Age, brood fate, and territory quality affect nest-site fidelity in white stork Ciconia ciconia
Frontiers in Zoology, 2023 Background A particular type of site fidelity is faithfulness to the nest site, where birds are not only reoccupying breeding territories but also reusing nests built in previous breeding seasons.
Joanna T. Bialas +5 more
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Habitat selection and reproductive success of Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) at its northern limit. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) has experienced population declines in both Canada and the United States and in 2010 was assigned a national listing of threatened in Canada.
Xiang Zhu +3 more
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Nest Predation Deviates from Nest Predator Abundance in an Ecologically Trapped Bird. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In human-modified environments, ecological traps may result from a preference for low-quality habitat where survival or reproductive success is lower than in high-quality habitat.
Franck A Hollander +3 more
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