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- Title
Weather-related Tree Swallow Mortality and Reduced Nesting Effort.
- Authors
Hess, Paul J.; Zenger, Carl G.; Schmidt, Robert A.
- Abstract
We document the spring 2007 die-off of 216 Tachvcineta bicolor (Tree Swallow) in western New York due to a period of unseasonably warm temperatures followed immediately by a period of unseasonably cold temperatures. Dead swallows were collected from artificial nesting boxes, where they had roosted communally. A subsequent decline in nesting effort was detected during the following nesting season. Implications for future nest-box management are discussed.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); TREE swallow; TACHYCINETA; CLIMATE change; GLOBAL warming; ANIMAL ecology
- Publication
Northeastern Naturalist, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 4, p630
- ISSN
1092-6194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1656/1092-6194-15.4.630