A new method for catching cavity-nesting birds during egg laying and incubation

Marvelde, Luc te; Webber, Simone L.; Burg, A.B. van den; Visser, Marcel E.

doi:10.1111/j.1557-9263.2011.00335.x

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“…We caught 16 birds (8 pairs) and fitted these with radio‐tags during incubation or chick rearing. During the incubation period we caught five males with mist nets nearby the nest, and three females with ‘box nets’ (te Marvelde et al, 2011) placed around the nest box. All the remaining individuals were caught and tagged at the nest during chick provisioning.…”

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Songbird parents coordinate offspring provisioning at fine spatio‐temporal scales

Baldan

Loon

2022

Journal of Animal Ecology

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For parents, rearing offspring together is far from a purely cooperative exercise, as a conflict of interest (‘sexual conflict’) exists over their optimum level of care. Recent theory emphasizes that sexual conflict can be evolutionarily resolved, and complete parental cooperation can occur, if parents directly respond (‘negotiate’) to each other and coordinate their level of care. Despite numerous experiments showing that parents are responsive to each other, we still lack empirical evidence of the behavioural mechanisms by which this negotiation occurs. In this study, we investigated the spatio‐temporal coordination of parental provisioning behaviour as a possible mechanism of negotiation over parental care. We deployed an automated radiotracking technology to track the provisioning activity of wild great tit Parus major pairs during chick rearing. Our analyses represent the first detailed spatial and temporal description of foraging coordination in songbird parents in a natural context. We demonstrate that the foraging behaviour of the two parents is highly coordinated in space and time, with parents changing their foraging locations in conjunction with their partners' movements. Therefore, foraging coordination could be a mechanism by which parents directly monitor and respond to each other's level of investment.

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Songbird parents coordinate offspring provisioning at fine spatio‐temporal scales

Baldan

Loon

2022

Journal of Animal Ecology

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“…But even in species with conventional sex roles, where territorial males are much more conspicuous than females, simply increasing observation or catching effort, or diversifying the techniques used, are affordable and efficient solutions [e.g. 51,104]. In the 1960s and the 1970s for example, females sparrows of the genus Zonotrichia, especially the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys), were the subject of extensive research [e.g.…”

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Avian ecologists and physiologists have different sexual preferences

Samuel

2012

General and Comparative Endocrinology

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Seasonal timing is studied by ecologists and physiologists alike and it is now widely recognized that further integration of these fields is needed for a full understanding of phenology. This is especially true in the light of the impact of global climate change on living organisms. In studies of avian reproduction, one obstacle to this integration is that ecologists and physiologists do not allocate their research efforts equally to males and females. The physiological orchestration of breeding stages has been studied almost exclusively in males, while in avian ecology and evolutionary biology females are more often considered. This sex bias has severe implications: sexes differ in the way they use external cues to organize their life cycles, but often cue in on each other's physiology and behavior. The simultaneous investigation of both males and females within single studies is thus essential. In this review, I begin by illustrating the sex-bias in studies and attempt to explain its origin. I then provide a number of examples in which focusing on a single sex would have resulted in misleading conclusions. Finally, I review some classical studies of female reproductive physiology that have promoted and developed research on the "forgotten-sex". AbstractSeasonal timing is studied by ecologists and physiologists alike and it is now widely recognized that further integration of these fields is needed for a full understanding of phenology. This is especially true in the light of the impact of global climate change on living organisms. In studies of avian reproduction, one obstacle to this integration is that ecologists and physiologists do not allocate their research efforts equally to males and females. The physiological orchestration of breeding stages has been studied almost exclusively in males, while in avian ecology and evolutionary biology females are more often considered. This sex bias has severe implications: sexes differ in the way they use external cues to organize their life cycles, but often cue in on each other's physiology and behavior. The simultaneous investigation of both males and females within single studies is thus essential. In this review, Ibegin by illustrating the sex-bias in studies and attempt to explain its origin. I then provide a number of examples in which focusing on a single sex would have resulted in misleading conclusions. Finally, I review some classical studies of female reproductive physiology that have promoted and developed research on the "forgotten-sex".

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“…While behavioural studies of competition can be time and resource‐intensive, managers could compare trait overlap between species that occur in an area to help inform whether local control is worthwhile or further behavioural studies are warranted. Control of individual birds at the nest cavity can utilize a range of live traps and other approaches developed for the study of cavity‐nesting species (Braga, Shibuya, Cerboncini, & Roper, 2014; Stanback & Koenig, 1994; te Marvelde, Webber, van den Burg, & Visser, 2011).…”

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Noisy neighbours and myna problems: Interaction webs and aggression around tree hollows in urban habitats

Rogers

Griffin

Rensburg

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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1. Interaction networks among native and invasive species in a community can inform both invasion impacts and applied management of invasive species. The intensity of aggressive interactions may be related to the overlap in species' ecological niche and functional traits, especially in cavity-breeding species, that often compete for limited nesting sites. Australia is home to over 100 native and introduced cavity-nesting species, including several invasive species that are widespread globally, such as the common myna Acridotheres tristis. Here, we aimed to test the extent to which shared functional traits inform the intensity of aggression between cavity-nesting birds. 2. We quantified the outcomes of aggressive interactions between birds in large hollow-bearing trees in SE Queensland, Australia. We examined whether more similarly sized birds interacted more frequently, whether larger species won aggressive interactions more often, and whether cavity-breeding species with similar preferences for nesting sites (breeding-niche space) interacted more frequently. 3. We recorded a total of 410 aggressive interactions and 48 interacting bird species around tree hollows, including 20 cavity-nesting bird species. These interactions were dominated by the invasive common myna, the native noisy miner (a non-cavity-breeder) and the native rainbow lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus, but the common myna won the largest total number of interspecific interactions. On average, larger birds won aggressive interactions more frequently, yet there were some important exceptions to this finding; the common myna (113 ± 30 g) won 26 of the 29 interactions against the larger native rainbow lorikeet (126 ± 44 g). Importantly, species with more similar nest-site preferences were observed aggressively interacting more frequently. 4. Synthesis and applications. The impact of the invasive common myna was highersite preferences. Control efforts for the myna should focus on birds that nest in natural tree hollows. An analysis of shared traits by managers could be used to help identify how many local species would benefit from common myna control in a given area and test if further behavioural studies of common myna are warranted.

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A new method for catching cavity-nesting birds during egg laying and incubation

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Songbird parents coordinate offspring provisioning at fine spatio‐temporal scales

Songbird parents coordinate offspring provisioning at fine spatio‐temporal scales

Avian ecologists and physiologists have different sexual preferences

Noisy neighbours and myna problems: Interaction webs and aggression around tree hollows in urban habitats

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