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- Title
Sanitation of entire broods of dead nestlings may bias cause-specific nest failure rates.
- Authors
KIRKPATRICK, CHRIS; CONWAY, COURTNEY J.; ALI, MOEZ H.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the sanitation of entire broods of dead nestlings which may cause-specific nest failure rates. Parent birds of many altricial species remove nestling excrement, foreign debris, ectoparasites, and dead nestlings from their nests. Researchers discovered that intact nest may not always indicate a nest depredation but instead may result from the sanitation of an entire brood of dead nestlings by parent birds following complete brood mortality. The record for nest status was active with parent birds on or in the immediate vicinity of nests and nests were verified as nest status and nest contents of parent birds.
- Subjects
ARIZONA; ANIMAL habitations; NEST abandonment; BABY birds; BROOD stock assessment; PREDATION; CAMCORDERS; ECTOPARASITIC infestations; MORTALITY
- Publication
Ibis, 2009, Vol 151, Issue 1, p207
- ISSN
0019-1019
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00893.x