Breeding Success and Timing of the Pied Flycatcher<i>Ficedula hypoleuca</i>Nesting in Natural Holes and Nest-Boxes in the Białowieża Forest, Poland

Czeszczewik, Dorota

doi:10.3161/068.039.0106

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“…As breeding parameters, especially clutch size and breeding success, differ between birds using tree holes and nestboxes (e.g. Kuitunen & Aleknonis 1992, Mitrus 2003, Czeszczewik 2004, it should be asked whether the problem of old nest presence also occurs in natural cavities.…”

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Effect of Old Nest Material on Nest Site Selection and Breeding Parameters in Secondary Hole Nesters — a Review

Mazgajski¹

2007

Acta Ornithologica

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Effect of Old Nest Material on Nest Site Selection and Breeding Parameters in Secondary Hole Nesters — a Review

Mazgajski¹

2007

Acta Ornithologica

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“…Predation rate in natural nests is higher than in nest-boxes and depends mainly on entrance hole size and height of the nest (Lundberg and Alatalo 1992). The majority of studies comparing passerine predation risk among nest types found higher nest predation rates in natural cavities versus nest boxes (Purcell et al 1997;Mitrus 2003; but see Czeszczewik 2004). Moreover, in this study, no nests in nest boxes with small entrance holes were predated (see "Results").…”

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Higher nest predation risk in association with a top predator: mesopredator attraction?

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Oecologia

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Breeding close to top predators is a widespread reproductive strategy. Breeding animals may gain indirect benefits if proximity to top predators results in a reduction of predation due to suppression of mesopredators. We tested if passerine birds gain protection from mesopredators by nesting within territories of a top predator, the Ural owl (Strix uralensis). We placed nest boxes for pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) in Ural owl nest sites and in control sites (currently unoccupied by owls). The nest boxes were designed so that nest predation risk could be altered (experimentally increased) after flycatcher settlement; we considered predation rate as a proxy of mesopredator abundance. Overall, we found higher nest predation rates in treatment than in control sites. Flycatcher laying date did not differ between sites, but smaller clutches were laid in treatment sites compared to controls, suggesting a response to perceived predation risk. Relative nest predation rate varied between years, being higher in owl nest sites in 2 years but similar in another; this variation might be indirectly influenced by vole abundance. Proximity to Ural owl nests might represent a risky habitat for passerines. High predation rates within owl territories could be because small mesopredators that do not directly threaten owl nests are attracted to owl nest sites. This could be explained if some mesopredators use owl territories to gain protection from their own predators, or if top predators and mesopredators independently seek similar habitats.

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“…The data were also collected in swampy deciduous forests (riverine stands and alder carrs, 22%) comprising mainly alder (Alnus glutinosa), ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and spruce, as well as-less intensely-in mixed coniferous forests (coverage 28%), which are dominated by spruce and scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). See Tomiałojć et al (1984), Faliński (1986), Tomiałojć and Wesołowski (1990, 2004 for more information and photos.…”

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Lessons from long-term hole-nester studies in a primeval temperate forest

2007

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Nonexcavators (secondary hole-nesters) are birds that critically depend on holes for nesting and roosting; the absence of holes renders habitat uninhabitable to them. In man-managed woods, their populations are known to increase with the provision of nest-boxes, suggesting that the birds are limited by shortage of holes and must compete for them. I use 30 years of observations in the last fragments of primeval temperate forest of lowland Europe (Białowie_ za National Park, eastern Poland) to test these assumptions. They show that, in primeval forest conditions, (1) birds do not face a shortage of holes, (2) competition for nest sites is of minor importance, (3) woodpeckers are not keystone hole providers, and (4) nonexcavated holes provide safer nest sites than excavated holes. The Białowie_ za results are compared with studies from primeval forests on other continents. I conclude that in primeval forest conditions, hole-nesting nonexcavator birds are not, as a rule, nest-site-limited.

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Breeding Success and Timing of the Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleucaNesting in Natural Holes and Nest-Boxes in the Białowieża Forest, Poland

Cited by 47 publications

References 18 publications

Effect of Old Nest Material on Nest Site Selection and Breeding Parameters in Secondary Hole Nesters — a Review

Effect of Old Nest Material on Nest Site Selection and Breeding Parameters in Secondary Hole Nesters — a Review

Higher nest predation risk in association with a top predator: mesopredator attraction?

Lessons from long-term hole-nester studies in a primeval temperate forest

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