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- Title
Wandering Woodpeckers: Foray Behavior in a Social Bird.
- Authors
Barve, Sahas; Hagemeyer, Natasha D. G.; Winter, Russell E.; Chamberlain, Samuel D.; Koenig, Walter D.; Winkler, David W.; Walters, Eric L.
- Abstract
Nonbreeding helpers in several cooperative breeders birds make cryptic extraterritorial movements to discover dispersal opportunities before leaving their natal territories. Our results suggest that while helpers may benefit from finding dispersal opportunities, forays may be used more generally by acorn woodpeckers as a strategy to gather social information, such as tracking changes in group membership of neighboring territories.
- Subjects
BIRD behavior; WOODPECKERS; NATURE reserves
- Publication
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2020, Vol 101, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2327-6096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bes2.1660