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- Title
Report of a magpie preying on a post‐fledgling Daurian redstart.
- Authors
Zhu, Guofen; Zheng, Meinuo; Lyu, Shanshan; Ma, Laikun
- Abstract
A magpie (Pica pica) preying on a fledgling of Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus) was incidentally recorded with a video shot by mobile phone on 26 May 2021, providing direct evidence for magpie predation. It also shows that predation is an important factor that affects the survival of fledglings, indicating that survival of fledglings should be considered in evaluating breeding success of birds. The fledgling was about 13‐day‐old posthatching, and it was on its first day of leaving the nest when the incident occurred. It was preyed upon by a magpie 10 m away from the nest by two attempts under strong defensive behaviour from the female.
- Subjects
MAGPIES; CELL phone videos; CELL phones; BIRD breeding; VIDEO recording
- Publication
Ecology & Evolution (20457758), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
2045-7758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ece3.10412