Kausale und funktionale Aspekte der Verteilung von Uferschwalbenbruten (Riparia riparia L.)

Sieber, Otto J.

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.1980.tb00702.x

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“…First, in banks with low penetrability resistance, birds prefer soil strata with higher penetrability resistance and compactness to avoid hole collapse, which frequently occurs in loose soils with low penetrability resistance. Second, soil strata with high penetrability resistance are often used as resistant platforms during the digging period, later forming the bottom of holes (Sieber 1980). Thus there was a significant (chi-square test P < 0.05) preference for hard soil below holes when available (Fig.…”

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Soil penetrability as a key factor affecting the nesting of burrowing birds

Heneberg

2008

Ecological Research

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Soil penetrability resistance was found to be crucial for nest site selection of all three Central European burrowing bird species-Sand Martins (Riparia riparia), European Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster), and Eurasian Kingfishers (Alcedo atthis). Soil penetrability resistance measurements were used to find out whether increased hardness of unexcavated banks is the key factor affecting the presence of burrowing birds. All three species avoided banks composed of too compact or too loose soils. Birds discriminated not only between high-and low-quality breeding banks, but also between different soil strata within banks. In banks with generally low penetrability resistance, Sand Martins preferred soil strata with the highest available penetrability resistance and compactness to avoid hole collapses. There was a preference for hard soil below holes to serve as a resistant platform when birds begin to dig their holes. In Sand Martins, the penetrability resistance level affected physical characteristics of holes such as tunnel length and dimensions of the orifices. Excessive compactness-and probably not high talus presence-was a major cause of abandonment of Sand Martin localities. A high penetrability resistance is the crucial factor for site selection in Sand Martins.

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Soil penetrability as a key factor affecting the nesting of burrowing birds

Heneberg

2008

Ecological Research

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“…2013a). While the predation risk arising from beech martens ( Martes foina ) and European badgers ( Meles meles ) is indeed higher when burrows are located in closer proximity to the ground (Sieber 1980; Persson 1987), red foxes ( Vulpes vulpes ) excavate burrows from the top (Heneberg 2005). Besides the risk of predation, especially at the margins of the wall, physical properties such as substrate composition (Smalley et al.…”

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“…Still, the first burrows in newly established breeding walls of burrowing birds are usually built along the upper margin, whereas lower burrows follow only later (Ursprung 1984;Smalley et al 2013a). While the predation risk arising from beech martens (Martes foina) and European badgers (Meles meles) is indeed higher when burrows are located in closer proximity to the ground (Sieber 1980;Persson 1987), red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) excavate burrows from the top (Heneberg 2005). Besides the risk of predation, especially at the margins of the wall, physical properties such as substrate composition (Smalley et al 2013b) or rainwater permeability (Smalley et al 2013a) should play a role in burrow positioning within the wall, too.…”

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Determinants of between‐year burrow re‐occupation in a colony of the European bee‐eater Merops apiaster

Brust

Bastian²,

Bastian³

et al. 2015

Ecology and Evolution

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Re-occupation of existing nesting burrows in the European bee-eater Merops apiaster has only rarely – and if so mostly anecdotically – been documented in the literature record, although such behavior would substantially save time and energy. In this study, we quantify burrow re-occupation in a German colony over a period of eleven years and identify ecological variables determining reuse probability. Of 179 recorded broods, 54% took place in a reused burrow and the overall probability that one of 75 individually recognized burrows would be reused in a given subsequent year was estimated as 26.4%. This indicates that between-year burrow reuse is a common behavior in the study colony which contrasts with findings from studies in other colonies. Furthermore, burrow re-occupation probability declined highly significantly with increasing age of the breeding wall. Statistical separation of within- and between-burrow effects of the age of the breeding wall revealed that a decline in re-occupation probability with individual burrow age was responsible for this and not a selective disappearance of burrows with high re-occupation probability over time. Limited duty cycles of individual burrows may be caused by accumulating detritus or decreasing stability with increasing burrow age. Alternatively, burrow fidelity may presuppose pair fidelity which may also explain the observed restricted burrow reuse duty cycles. A consequent next step would be to extend our within-colony approach to other colonies and compare the ecological circumstances under which bee-eaters reuse breeding burrows.

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“…(1) No pronounced dawn or dusk chorus should occur in species in which the male and the female of a pair spend the night together (e.g. long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus [16]; sand martin Riparia riparia [92]; goldcrest Regulus regulus [93]), at least if they enter and exit the roost together as well. (2) Species in which a male's vocal output is unrelated to the presence of the female, or is higher when the female is present, should not have a pronounced dawn chorus.…”

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A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate

Schlicht,

Santema

et al. 2023

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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The spring dawn and dusk chorus of birds is a widespread phenomenon, yet its origin remains puzzling. We propose that a dawn and dusk chorus will inevitably arise if two criteria are met: (1) females leave their roost later in the morning and go to roost earlier in the evening than their mate, and (2) males sing more when separated from their mate. Previous studies on blue tits ( Cyanistes caeruleus ) support the first criterion. We here report that males sing at a higher rate whenever they are separated from their mate and that song rate increases with the duration of female absence. These findings can explain the existence of the dawn and dusk chorus in blue tits, and they can explain why the dawn chorus is more pronounced than the dusk chorus, as is typically observed. An exhaustive literature search provides support for both criteria of the ‘absent mate’ hypothesis in several passerine birds. We found no evidence contradicting the hypothesis. The new hypothesis is not inconsistent with many of the existing hypotheses about dawn singing, but may be a more general explanation for the occurrence of a dawn and dusk chorus. We describe how the ‘absent mate’ hypothesis leads to testable predictions about daily and seasonal variation in song output.

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Kausale und funktionale Aspekte der Verteilung von Uferschwalbenbruten (Riparia riparia L.)

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Soil penetrability as a key factor affecting the nesting of burrowing birds

Soil penetrability as a key factor affecting the nesting of burrowing birds

Determinants of between‐year burrow re‐occupation in a colony of the European bee‐eater Merops apiaster

A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate

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