Coastal Marsh Bird Habitat Selection and Responses to Hurricane Sandy

Benscoter, Allison M.; Beerens, James M.; Romañach, Stephanie S.

doi:10.1007/s13157-019-01230-2

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“…Previous studies have revealed large‐scale movements during the winter by many other migratory species, including waterfowl (Oppel et al 2008), raptors (Kochert et al 2011), passerines (Heckscher et al 2011, Renfrew et al 2013), and nightjars (Ng et al 2018, Tonra et al 2019). Similar to other wading birds, the winter relocations we observed may result from changes in water levels, prey availability, or be in response to hurricane impacts (Shepherd et al 1991, Bancroft et al 2002, Leberg et al 2007, Wunderle 2017, Bencoster et al 2019). Climate change is predicted to impact each of these three environmental factors in both the Caribbean (Biasutti et al 2012, Culp et al 2017) and Florida Everglades (Pearlstine et al 2010, Catano et al 2015), which could reduce the amount or quality of non‐breeding habitat for birds from the populations we studied.…”

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Full annual cycle tracking of Black‐crowned Night‐Herons suggests wintering areas do not explain differences in colony population trends

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An understanding of the full annual cycle distributions of bird populations is a prerequisite to elucidating the drivers of differing trends among breeding populations. In the United States, Black‐crowned Night‐Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) are listed as threatened or endangered in some states where they breed, but populations are stable in others. Outside of the breeding season, little is known about the species, including migratory routes and wintering areas. We used transmitters to track 28 Black‐crowned Night‐Herons from breeding colonies with stable (Washington, D.C.) and declining (Ohio) populations. For breeding populations across North America, we used band encounter data to estimate the movement of populations between breeding and wintering latitudes and the strength of migratory connectivity metric among latitudes. The first full annual cycle tracking of Black‐crowned Night‐Herons revealed diverse wintering strategies, including broad geographic distributions, within‐winter movements, and between‐year site fidelity. We found that over 80% of tracked individuals from the two breeding populations shared similar wintering areas, including the southern United States, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Black‐crowned Night‐Herons exhibited weak breeding to wintering migratory connectivity (MC = 0.001 ± 0.03) across the latitudinal extent of their North American breeding range, including some degree of partial migration. High overlap in the winter distributions and within‐winter relocations of Black‐crowned Night‐Herons tracked from breeding populations in the two regions, as well as weak migratory connectivity across their range, suggest that localized conditions during the winter period may not be driving different trends in breeding populations.

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Full annual cycle tracking of Black‐crowned Night‐Herons suggests wintering areas do not explain differences in colony population trends

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“…In this regard, Hispaniolan Parrots ( Amazona ventralis ) were found to move into inland broadleaf forest habitats at higher elevation when coastal scrub forests were heavily damaged by cyclone Georges 12 . Flexibility in habitat use in the face of ECEs has been observed in a range of taxa such as wetland birds, island bats, and sharks 13 – 15 . Finally, Mexican spider monkeys ( Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus ) have been observed to adjust patterns of social cohesion and grouping in response to the aftermath of ECEs.…”

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A conceptual framework for assessing behavioral flexibility of species in response to extreme climatic events

Ameca,

Chamart,

Garber

2023

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Inherent differences in the adaptive capacity of species to flexibly respond to extreme climatic events (ECEs) represent a key factor in their survivorship. We introduce and apply a conceptual framework linking knowledge about species’ current ecology and biology with variation in behavioral flexibility to ECEs. We applied it to 199 non-human primate species currently exposed to cyclones across the global tropics. Our findings suggest that species characterized by an increased ability to exploit a broad range of food types, social systems that permit subgrouping, and habitat types that span a range of environmental conditions may have greater success in coping with cyclones than more narrowly constrained or less adaptable primates. Overall, 15% of species, predominantly of the families Atelidae and Cercopithecidae, were assessed as having high or very high flexibility. In contrast, ~ 60% of primates were assessed with low or very low flexibility. These were species mainly belonging to the Cheirogaleidae, Lemuridae, Lepilemuridae, and Indriidae. While much work remains to better understand mechanisms driving differences in behavioral flexibility of species exposed to extreme climate across vertebrate lineages, our framework provides a workable approach that can improve estimates of current vulnerability to these phenomena and better inform conservation and management strategies.

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“…The spatial distributions are likely to overlap with those of other trophically similar species and cause competition for habitat, food and other resources (Mansor and Ramli 2017). While waterbirds serve as bio-indicators for seasonal, land use and climate changes (Benscoter et al 2020), an increase in the number of waterbirds in urban areas could pose several threats to both humans and other animals due to the transmission of pathogens and viruses through their feces or nose secretions (Kuchipudi et al 2022).…”

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Brood care behavior of the painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) in Peninsular Malaysia

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Abstract. Zakaria MA, Daud UNS, Mansor MS, Md. Nor S. 2022. Brood care behavior of the painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) in Peninsular Malaysia. Biodiversitas 23: 5406-5411. Waterbirds can serve as bio-indicators for their surrounding environments, indicating issues such as habitat degradation and climate change. One factor that contributes to successful reproduction for many bird species is parental behavior during the brood care stage. The painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a waterbird species that provide biparental care throughout the breeding season. Although many studies have focused on populations of this species, information about their behavior, particularly during nestling rearing, remains lacking. Hence, this study was conducted to examine the parental behavior of painted storks between the early and late stages of brood care in two different colonies located in Peninsular Malaysia: Tasik Shah Alam (TSA) in Selangor and Upper Bisa Putrajaya Wetland (UBPW) in Putrajaya from May to September 2016. Three pairs of painted storks were monitored in every site, and seven behaviors were identified: roosting, preening, nest repair, wing opening, flying, feeding and brooding. Of all the behaviors recorded, flying, roosting and wing-opening behavior were the most frequently observed behaviors in both study areas during the early stage of brood care. However, painted storks were found to spend most of their time flying when the chicks had grown up by the late stage. This may be due to the food demand for the parents and their chicks. As the nestlings grow bigger, more food is required before the nestling can fledge independently. This is supported by increased feeding frequency observed from the early to late stages. Males were found to have a higher frequency of all behaviors than females. This data facilitates a greater understanding of painted stork behavior, which can help in their conservation and management processes.

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Coastal Marsh Bird Habitat Selection and Responses to Hurricane Sandy

Cited by 5 publications

References 64 publications

Full annual cycle tracking of Black‐crowned Night‐Herons suggests wintering areas do not explain differences in colony population trends

Full annual cycle tracking of Black‐crowned Night‐Herons suggests wintering areas do not explain differences in colony population trends

A conceptual framework for assessing behavioral flexibility of species in response to extreme climatic events

Brood care behavior of the painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) in Peninsular Malaysia

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