Personality-dependent nest site selection and nest success during incubation in wild chestnut thrushes [PDF]
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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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 Depth and Height Are Associated with Breeding Outcomes in the Small Bee-Eater (Merops orientalis): A Preliminary Field Study from Pakistan [PDF]
AnimalsNest architecture and surrounding habitat features can strongly influence the reproductive success of cavity-nesting birds; however, quantitative data from natural environments remain limited.
Asif Sadam +4 more
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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 L. Bailey, David N. Bonter
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Space Use and Movements During Egg Laying Associated With Nest Fate and Female Survival in Eastern Wild Turkeys [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionReproduction is a fundamental aspect of a species' life history that is energetically costly, yet critical for population sustainability and genetic diversity.
Paige E. Goodman +5 more
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Post-copulatory competition in a social monogamy system: Sperm morphology correlates with components of reproductive success. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMales in socially monogamous species can achieve reproductive success through multiple tactics- by defending paternity within the social nest and siring extra-pair offspring, or both.
Carly E Hawkins +3 more
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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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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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