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Use of evergreen and deciduous plants by nocturnal-roosting birds: A case study in Beijing 夜间栖息鸟类对常绿和落叶植物的利用:北京案例研究
IF 1.8 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100177
Yexi Zhao, Jiayu Zhang, Zihan Li, Qinmijia Xie, Xin Deng, Chenxi Zhang, Nan Wang
{"title":"Use of evergreen and deciduous plants by nocturnal-roosting birds: A case study in Beijing","authors":"Yexi Zhao,&nbsp;Jiayu Zhang,&nbsp;Zihan Li,&nbsp;Qinmijia Xie,&nbsp;Xin Deng,&nbsp;Chenxi Zhang,&nbsp;Nan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With continually increasing urbanization, the land cover in urban areas continues to change, resulting in the loss of biodiversity. Birds are highly sensitive to changes in habitat. Most forest birds perch on plants that provide increased safety to reduce the risk of predation, and small birds may also consider insulation when using roosting plants in winter because of cold weather. Landscaping plants thus shape the nocturnal roosting environment of urban birds, and proper planting is essential for the survival of birds at night. The use of roosting plants by urban birds should therefore be studied to provide a reference for landscaping. In the current study, we observed 1865 nocturnal roosting birds in Beijing from 2021 to 2022, with 23 species of birds from 12 families and 45 species of plants from 22 families recorded. <em>Juniperus chinensis</em> exhibited the highest bird rarity-weighted richness, followed by <em>Fraxinus pennsylvanica</em>, <em>Phyllostachys propinqua</em>, <em>Pinus tabuliformis</em>, and <em>Ulmus pumila</em>. The diameter at breast height, tree height, and crown width of plants used by birds was largest in summer and smallest in winter, and the perch height of birds was the highest in spring and summer and the lowest in winter. Birds used the highest proportion of deciduous plants in summer and the highest proportion of evergreen plants in winter. A significant seasonal difference in the use of evergreen and deciduous plants by small birds was noted, with a preference for deciduous plants in summer and evergreen plants in winter, while this preference was not found in large birds. These findings indicate that evergreen plants provide a vital nocturnal roosting environment for small birds in winter. To provide a better nocturnal roosting habitat for urban birds, we recommend paying attention to the combination of evergreen and deciduous plants when carrying out landscape construction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100177"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716624000203/pdfft?md5=c9b4a532e1b09d07a6ce8e6083fb5e9b&pid=1-s2.0-S2053716624000203-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140924515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Annual variation of adult survival of a south-temperate House Wren population in Argentina 阿根廷南温带鹪鹩种群成年存活率的年度变化
IF 1.8 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100180
Gustavo J. Fernández , Mariana E. Carro , Paulo E. Llambías
{"title":"Annual variation of adult survival of a south-temperate House Wren population in Argentina","authors":"Gustavo J. Fernández ,&nbsp;Mariana E. Carro ,&nbsp;Paulo E. Llambías","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Identifying factors affecting the survival of individuals is essential for understanding the evolution of life-history traits and population dynamics. Despite numerous studies on this subject in north-temperate environments, there is a lack of equivalent studies at similar latitudes in the south. Here, we used a 14-year dataset of capture, banding, and resighting to estimate the annual variation in the apparent adult survival probability of a south-temperate population of House Wrens (<em>Troglodytes aedon bonariae</em>). We evaluated temporal variation in survival and the effect of environmental (climatic) and demographic variables (adult abundance, total number of fledglings produced during each breeding season) on survival estimators. We found that the probability of adult survival decreased as the abundance of breeding adults increased. This density-dependent effect could be related to the resident lifestyle of southern House Wrens, which could determine an intense competition for territories and resources that ultimately would affect their survival.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716624000239/pdfft?md5=7f8e7cd623a93485d45351e60cd89de5&pid=1-s2.0-S2053716624000239-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140901821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Most bird species remain poorly studied but threated status promotes research effort 大多数鸟类物种的研究仍很薄弱,但三类鸟的地位促进了研究工作的开展
IF 1.6 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100215
Hanchen Shuai, Juntao Hu, Shilu Zheng, Zhijun Ma, Jiajia Liu
{"title":"Most bird species remain poorly studied but threated status promotes research effort","authors":"Hanchen Shuai,&nbsp;Juntao Hu,&nbsp;Shilu Zheng,&nbsp;Zhijun Ma,&nbsp;Jiajia Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100215","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100215","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To halt biodiversity loss, threatened species are often selected as targets for conservation actions. However, whether most threatened species receive sufficient research effort remains unknown. Low research and public attention of threatened species would hinder the implementation of effective conservation actions. Therefore, it is urgent to assess both research effort and species extinction risk simultaneously to provide critical information for targeted conservation practices. Here, we evaluated research effort of extant bird species worldwide (<em>n</em> = 10,904) by searching the number of all publications and those focused on conservation in Scopus database for each species, and investigated key determinants of research effort. We found that although the median value of publications of threatened species was significantly higher than that of non-threatened species, 47.4% of threatened species had less than 3 publications, and 73.8% had less than 10 publications, indicating low research effort of most threatened species. Although research effort was positively related to extinction risk, research effort was mainly associated with human-related variables, with birds described earlier and occurred in developed regions receiving higher research effort. In comparison, extinction risk was mainly associated with biological attributes, with large-sized and narrow-distributed species being more likely to be threatened. Our finding suggests that research effort of species can provide complementary information for current conservation strategies designed for threatened species, and we urge that many recently discovered and narrowly distributed species in less developed regions require more research and conservation attention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bird specimen number linked with species trait and climate niche breadth 鸟类标本数量与物种特征和气候生态位广度有关
IF 1.8 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100162
Xiaoyu Duan , Xiongwei Huang , Jingya Zhang , Shuo Lv , Gang Song , Yanping Wang , Gang Feng
{"title":"Bird specimen number linked with species trait and climate niche breadth","authors":"Xiaoyu Duan ,&nbsp;Xiongwei Huang ,&nbsp;Jingya Zhang ,&nbsp;Shuo Lv ,&nbsp;Gang Song ,&nbsp;Yanping Wang ,&nbsp;Gang Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Biological specimens are fundamental for taxonomy and flora/fauna research. More importantly, they also play crucial roles in recording environmental impacts on morphology and behavior, which is vital for biodiversity research and conservation. However, there are few systematic studies on the patterns and drivers of bird specimen number at regional scales. This study is the first attempt to examine the relationships between bird specimen number and species traits as well as climate niche breadth in China, aiming to answer two questions: 1) how do species’ temperature niche breadth and precipitation niche breadth influence specimen number? 2) which trait is most associated with bird specimen number? The associations between bird specimen number and explanatory variables were examined using ordinary least squares, generalized linear models, phylogenetic generalized linear mixed models, and multiple comparisons. The results showed that Muscicapidae was the family with the highest specimen number, and Passeriformes was the order with the highest specimen number. Bird specimen number significantly increased with larger temperature niche breadth and precipitation niche breadth. Specimen number was also positively associated with geographic range size, habitat specificity, hunting vulnerability and clutch size, but negatively associated with body size. These findings suggest that future bird specimen collection should pay more attention to birds with limited ecological niches, large body sizes, and small clutch sizes. This research enhances the use of bird specimen data to study and preserve biodiversity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100162"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716624000057/pdfft?md5=c9b2cfef767c5c2c24a49d9a889e5414&pid=1-s2.0-S2053716624000057-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139955391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Differential colour-ring loss among Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) colonies and its consequence on survival estimates 达尔马提亚鹈鹕(Pelecanus crispus)群落的色环损失差异及其对存活率估计的影响
IF 1.8 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100166
Anastasios Bounas , Giorgos Catsadorakis , Dionyssia Hatzilacou , Theodoros Naziridis , Jocelyn Champagnon , Alain J. Crivelli
{"title":"Differential colour-ring loss among Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) colonies and its consequence on survival estimates","authors":"Anastasios Bounas ,&nbsp;Giorgos Catsadorakis ,&nbsp;Dionyssia Hatzilacou ,&nbsp;Theodoros Naziridis ,&nbsp;Jocelyn Champagnon ,&nbsp;Alain J. Crivelli","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100166","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The analysis of bird ringing data often comes with some potential sources of error and bias, as ring wear and/or loss could affect mark-recapture analyses and produce erroneous estimates of survival. Furthermore, ring wear and loss rates may differ between and within species based on the habitat they use or the species' life-history traits and behaviour as well as the type of the ring. In this study we use resighting data from a long-term double marking experiment to directly estimate the rate of colour-ring loss among different Dalmatian Pelican colonies over time, evaluate any possible factors that could contribute to differential ring loss and assess how it may bias the results of mark-resighting analyses. Based on 14,849 resightings from 1275 individuals and using multi-state continuous-time hidden Markov models (HMMs) we showed that probability of ring loss was markedly different among colonies, ranging from 0.10 to 0.42 within the first year of marking, whereas the cumulative probability of losing a ring after ten years ranged 0.64 to 0.99. These rates are among the highest estimated when compared to previous studies in waterbirds. Our approach assessing the intra-specific variance in ring loss provided several factors potentially involved, such as the use of glue and the fledgling age accuracy and we could further hypothesise the effect of environmental factors. Finally, our results showed that ring loss can be a significant challenge for the assessment of the species' population dynamics using mark-recapture methods as survival was consistently underestimated when not accounting for ring loss and varied significantly among different colonies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716624000094/pdfft?md5=308da6f5c3492dce60ba4fa6c9b87397&pid=1-s2.0-S2053716624000094-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140004616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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From partial to complete: Wing- and tail-feather moult sequence and intensity depend on species, life-cycle stage, and moult completeness in passerines 从部分到完全雀形目鸟类翅膀和尾羽的蜕皮顺序和强度取决于物种、生命周期阶段和蜕皮的完整性
IF 1.8 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100163
Santi Guallar
{"title":"From partial to complete: Wing- and tail-feather moult sequence and intensity depend on species, life-cycle stage, and moult completeness in passerines","authors":"Santi Guallar","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100163","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100163","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Passerines moult during various life-cycle stages. Some of these moults involve the retention of a variable quantity of wing and tail feathers. This prompts the question whether these partial moults are just arrested complete moults or follow different processes. To address it, I investigated whether three relevant features remain constant across partial and complete moults: 1) moult sequence (order of activation) within feather tracts (e.g., consecutive outward moult of primaries) and among tracts (e.g., starting with marginal coverts, followed by greater coverts second, tertials, etc.); 2) dynamics of moult intensity (amount of feathers growing along the moult progress); and 3) protection of wing quills by overlapping fully grown feathers. To study the effect of moult completeness on these three features, I classified moults of 435 individuals from 61 species in 3 groups: i) complete and partial, ii) without and iii) with retention of feathers within tracts. To study the effect of life-cycle stage, I used postbreeding, postjuvenile, and prebreeding moults. I calculated phylogenetically corrected means to establish feather-moult sequence within tracts. I applied linear regression to analyse moult sequence among tracts, and polynomial regression to study the dynamics of moult intensity as moult progresses. Sequence and intensity dynamics of partial moults tended resemble those of the complete moult as moult completeness increased. Sequence within and among feather tracts tended to shift as moult intensity within tracts and number of tracts increased. Activation of primaries advanced in relation to the other feather tracts as number of moulted primaries increased. Tertial quills were protected by the innermost greater covert regardless of moult completeness. These findings suggest that moult is a self-organised process that adjusts to the degree of completeness of plumage renewal. However, protection of quills and differences among species and between postjuvenile- and prebreeding-moult sequences also suggest an active control linked to feather function, including protection and signalling.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716624000069/pdfft?md5=337806f3c50a21bcc4b2f3d00e9fd9a0&pid=1-s2.0-S2053716624000069-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140004621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Detecting the distribution of and public attitudes to charismatic alien species based on media coverage 根据媒体报道检测外来魅力物种的分布情况和公众态度
IF 1.6 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100201
Yuexuan Liu , Ruichang Sun , Bo Li , Zhijun Ma
{"title":"Detecting the distribution of and public attitudes to charismatic alien species based on media coverage","authors":"Yuexuan Liu ,&nbsp;Ruichang Sun ,&nbsp;Bo Li ,&nbsp;Zhijun Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Charismatic species are often reported by the media, providing information for detecting population status and public perception. To identify the number and distribution of free-living Black Swan (<em>Cygnus atratus</em>), a charismatic alien species in Chinese mainland and to detect the public and the media attitudes to the species, we analyzed the reports and emotional tendency from media coverage in 2000–2022 using manual reading, crawler extraction and latent Dirichlet allocation. A total of 6654 Black Swans were reported at 711 sites, including 147 individuals at 30 nature reserves. Successful breeding was reported at one-fourth of the total sites, including five nature reserves. The proportion of positive emotional tendency to Black Swans was overwhelming in the reports and was higher than that to alien species in general, suggesting that the public and the media are unaware of the risk of biological invasion. Effective management of invasive species requires the media clarifies the invasion risk of charismatic alien species. Promoting the unity between the harmfulness of abstract concept of alien species and the charisma of a specific alien species among the public help effective management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716624000446/pdfft?md5=f784a91b83fe9f26701fdf0e4a4f555f&pid=1-s2.0-S2053716624000446-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142002369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Recognition and rejection of foreign eggs of different colors in Barn Swallows 谷仓燕识别和排斥不同颜色的异卵
IF 1.6 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100202
Kui Yan, Wei Liang
{"title":"Recognition and rejection of foreign eggs of different colors in Barn Swallows","authors":"Kui Yan,&nbsp;Wei Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100202","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100202","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Brood parasitic birds lay eggs in the nests of other birds, and the parasitized hosts can reduce the cost of raising unrelated offspring through the recognition of parasitic eggs. Hosts can adopt vision-based cognitive mechanisms to recognize foreign eggs by comparing the colors of foreign and host eggs. However, there is currently no uniform conclusion as to whether this comparison involves the single or multiple threshold decision rules. In this study, we tested both hypotheses by adding model eggs of different colors to the nests of Barn Swallows (<em>Hirundo rustica</em>) of two geographical populations breeding in Hainan and Heilongjiang Provinces in China. Results showed that Barn Swallows rejected more white model eggs (moderate mimetic to their own eggs) and blue model eggs (highly non-mimetic eggs with shorter reflectance spectrum) than red model eggs (highly non-mimetic eggs with longer reflectance spectrum). There was no difference in the rejection rate of model eggs between the two populations of Barn Swallows, and clutch size was not a factor affecting egg recognition. Our results are consistent with the single rejection threshold model. This study provides strong experimental evidence that the color of model eggs can has an important effect on egg recognition in Barn Swallows, opening up new avenues to uncover the evolution of cuckoo egg mimicry and explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying the visual recognition of foreign eggs by hosts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100202"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716624000458/pdfft?md5=3a47a5e7c02098f5c20eea7542891310&pid=1-s2.0-S2053716624000458-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142013129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Variation of parental and chick diet in opportunistic insectivorous European Bee-eaters 机会性食虫性欧洲食蜂的亲鸟和雏鸟食物变化
IF 1.6 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100211
Joana S. Costa , Steffen Hahn , José A. Alves
{"title":"Variation of parental and chick diet in opportunistic insectivorous European Bee-eaters","authors":"Joana S. Costa ,&nbsp;Steffen Hahn ,&nbsp;José A. Alves","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100211","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100211","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Insectivorous Palaearctic bird species associated with open habitats rely on high prey abundances, which are currently declining due to habitat loss and intensive agricultural practices. The European Bee-eater (<em>Merops apiaster</em>) is an opportunistic insectivore of open habitats, preying mainly on medium to large-sized flying insects. Its diet composition received some attention in the past, but the current variation in diet composition of birds breeding across different habitats, and between adults and chicks remains poorly known. In this study, we determine variation in bee-eaters’ diet in colonies located in five common habitats at the Iberian Peninsula. We also assess differences in the diet composition of chicks and adults and investigate seasonal diet selectivity of adults. Finally, we explore the variability in the size of prey provided to chicks throughout their growth period. Hymenoptera and Coleoptera were the most important groups for bee-eaters, with adults and chicks consuming 58.8% and 64.1% of hymenopterans and 37.6% and 28.6% of coleopterans, respectively. The proportion of Hymenoptera (42.3–55.7%) and Coleoptera (43.3–53.5%) in the diet was similar in colonies in pasture and oak habitats, but Hymenoptera dominated (83.8% and 95.7%) in meadow and mixed forest colonies. Despite being a generally opportunistic predator, adult bee-eaters provide their progeny with an increasing proportion of larger insects through chick development. Moreover, they equally take Hymenoptera and Coleoptera for themselves and their chicks, even when the abundance of these insects decreases seasonally. Overall, these results suggest that local prey availability associated with specific habitats influences diet composition and that regional declines in certain groups may, therefore, affect insectivore species differently according to their dietary and habitat preferences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Tri-axial accelerometry allows to determine parental food provisioning behaviour in a marine bird 三轴加速度测量法可确定海洋鸟类的亲鸟食物供给行为
IF 1.6 2区 生物学
Avian Research Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100194
Monserrat Del Caño , Flavio Quintana , Giacomo Dell’Omo , Agustina Gómez-Laich
{"title":"Tri-axial accelerometry allows to determine parental food provisioning behaviour in a marine bird","authors":"Monserrat Del Caño ,&nbsp;Flavio Quintana ,&nbsp;Giacomo Dell’Omo ,&nbsp;Agustina Gómez-Laich","doi":"10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The study of parental food provisioning is essential for understanding the breeding ecology of birds. We conducted the first study using accelerometry to detect food provisioning in birds, using Support Vector Machine (SVM) models to identify when adults feed chicks of three different age classes. Accelerometers were attached to the head of adult female Imperial Shags (<em>Leucocarbo atriceps</em>), and various attributes derived from the acceleration signals were used to train SVM models for each chick age class. Model performance improved with chick age class, with SVM models achieving high overall accuracy (&gt;88%) and highest sensitivity in older chick categories (&gt;91%). However, precision values, especially for younger chicks, remained relatively low (between 26% and 45%). The application of a time filter based on the minimum duration of the observed food provisioning behaviours for each chick age category, improved model performance by reducing false provisioning behaviours, particularly in the model for older chicks, which showed the highest precision (72.4%). This study highlights the effectiveness of accelerometry and machine learning in studying parental food provisioning in birds, providing a rapid and accurate data collection method to complement traditional techniques. The described methodology can be applied to any bird species that exhibits distinctive movements while feeding its offspring and has suitable characteristics for attaching an accelerometer to the body part that best captures this movement. Finally, it is hoped that the results of this study will contribute to future research on key questions in parental investment theory and reproductive strategies in birds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":51311,"journal":{"name":"Avian Research","volume":"15 ","pages":"Article 100194"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2053716624000379/pdfft?md5=520019a2a9e5180acb08b9934564476d&pid=1-s2.0-S2053716624000379-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141605507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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