nest survival
Landscape features and weather influence nest survival of a ground-nesting bird of conservation concern, the greater sage-grouse, in human-altered environments
... daily survival rate [DSR] of nests because birds can select habitat structure that aids or inhibits predator search behavior or that provides physical impediments and nest conceal- ment ...about nest ...
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Wild Turkey Nesting Ecology and Nest Survival in the Presence of Frequent Growing-season Fire.
... of nest survival using the Nest Survival model in Program MARK ...the nest survival rate given the nest reaches incubation, we exponentiated the daily survival rate ...
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Using artificial nests to predict nest survival at reintroduction sites
... Nine sites encompassed the original geographic range of the North Island robin (Table 1). Robins had naturally persisted at two of the sites, Waimanoa and Waipapa, which are near the centre of the North Island, and had ...
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Drivers of nest survival rate in a southern Tunisian population of Laughing Doves (Spilopelia senegalensis)
... affecting nest survival in a southern Tunisian popu- lation of Laughing ...of nest age, laying date, nest height and vegetation structure around the nest tree as possible predictors of ...
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Nest survival of birds in an urban environment in New Zealand
... compared nest survival of three urban bird species over two seasons in Dunedin City: silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis), a recent self-introduced native that is very abundant; blackbirds (Turdus merula), an ...
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Sources of Nest Failure in Mississippi Sandhill Cranes, Grus canadensis pulla: Nest Survival Modeling and Predator Occupancy
... Raccoons are probably the most common and widely distributed mammal in the Southeast (Choate et.al. 1994). They are usually ubiquitous across the landscape matrix, occurring at high densities along habitat edges and in ...
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A review of nest survival models
... Nests which succeed are used to estimate the proportions of nests being found (encountered) in each time interval. Assuming that these encounter probabilities also apply to the nests whi[r] ...
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Predator control improves nesting success in Waikato forest fragments
... each nest until it either fledged young or was ...the nest tree. We visited nest areas twice per week to check nest survival; to change the 12-volt batteries that powered the camera and ...
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Summer Vital Rates and Movement of Northern Bobwhite in Response to Habitat Management on Working Farms.
... to nest or nested in notably poorer sites such as a cornfield void of ground cover, a densely forested pine stand, logging slash within a pine stand clearcut during the previous year, or a hay ...did nest, ...
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Hard times in the city – attractive nest sites but insufficient food supply lead to low reproduction rates in a bird of prey
... of nest failure. Our models of nest survival showed that the percentage of sealed soil and the laying date are the main variables connected to nest failure (Table ...
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Do ducks and songbirds initiate more nests when the probability of survival is greater?
... the nest and nest ini- tiation date in both grassland passerines and upland- nesting ducks, although time-specific patterns in sur- vival rates are reportedly inconsistent among regions and species (emery ...
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Effects of Predator Control and Habitat Type on American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) Reproductive Success.
... while nest survival was correlated on the two islands prior to the removal event, we did not find a correlation between overall oystercatcher productivity on the two ...
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Seasonal increase of nest height of the Silver-throated Tit (Aegithalos glaucogularis): can it reduce predation risk?
... on nest survival, we also calculated daily nest sur- vival rate for each nest and investigated whether it var- ied with season in a GLMM with binomial errors and a logit link (following ...
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Effects of land use at a landscape scale on bumblebee nest density and survival
... We chose to consider all land cover types as predictor variables in order to avoid potential issues associated with biased variable selec- tion (Whittingham et al. 2006). We used hierarchical partitioning (HP) (Chevan ...
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Behavioural plasticity of life history traits in the New Zealand avifauna
... influences nest survival and changes in life history strategies of ...poisoned. Nest survival rates of introduced and native species were compared between the two sites by locating and ...
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Can stoat (Mustela erminea) trapping increase bellbird (Anthornis melanura) populations and benefit mistletoe (Peraxilla tetrapetala) pollination?
... Abstract: There are currently many attempts in New Zealand to restore native ecosystem functioning through the intensive control of introduced mammalian predators. One system that is faltering is bird pollination of ...
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Behavioral Ecology and Population Status of Wood Thrush and Ovenbird in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
... and nest predation rates in the southern ...Daily nest survival rates were significantly higher in treatment than in control ...hatched nest) than control ...the nest increases, ...
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Reproductive success and productivity of the Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca, a migratory, island endemic
... 2011. Nest survival did not vary with year, nesting attempt, or clutch initiation date, but was significantly higher in the chick ...successful nest varied with nest type—with first nests and ...
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Effects of breeding habitat and field margins on the reproductive performance of Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) on intensive farmland
... per nest in grassland was only ...the nest, while they can only fly short distances and escape from cutting machinery after several more ...silage, nest sur- vival and productivity were the highest ...
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Behaviour and nesting ecology of Appalachian Ruffed Grouse ( Bonasa umbellus )
... identifying nest predators for a variety of galliforms (marini and melo 1998; Rader et ...the nest/minutes recorded) and nest survival through incu- bation, (2) determine whether incubation ...
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