Reproductive success and nestling diet in the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Picoides minor): the early bird gets the caterpillar

Rossmanith, Eva; Höntsch, Kerstin; Blaum, Niels; Jeltsch, Florian

doi:10.1007/s10336-007-0134-4

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“…Rossmanith et al 2007). Since wood-boring larvae were the main food, and these are thought to be equally available year-round (Vergara and Schlatter 2004;Ojeda and Chazarreta 2006), homogeneity in the nestlings' main diet is not surprising.…”

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Division of labour in parental care in the Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus

2010

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Detailed studies of parental care of woodpeckers are restricted to a handful of species in the northern hemisphere. The Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus is the largest Neotropical picid and the southernmost distributed woodpecker worldwide. We investigated sexspecific parental care behaviour of Magellanic Woodpeckers at 11 nests by dawn to dusk monitoring, once a week throughout the nesting season. Behavioural observations were complemented with frequent inspections of all nests and video recordings at 3 nests. One or two hatchlings were produced; when two, the second-born was soon left to die from starvation, so a single young was reared at any nest.

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Division of labour in parental care in the Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus

2010

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“…Various aspects of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker’s breeding ecology have been studied in Europe, such as reproductive success (Rossmanith et al. 2007), parental care and social mating (Wiktander et al.…”

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“…2007), parental care and social mating (Wiktander et al. 2000), nestling diet (Rossmanith et al. 2007), foraging routines (Olsson et al.…”

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Characteristics of woods used recently and historically by Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers Dendrocopos minor in England

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Smith

Gruar

et al. 2010

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Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos minor numbers have declined greatly in England since the early 1980s for reasons that are not yet fully understood. It has been suggested that the species’ decline may be linked to the increase in Great Spotted Woodpeckers Dendrocopos major, changes in woodland habitat quality (such as deadwood abundance) and landscape‐scale changes in tree abundance. We tested some of these hypotheses by comparing the characteristics of woods in southern England where the species is still relatively numerous with those of woods used in the 1980s before the major decline. In each time period, habitat, predator and landscape information from woods known to be occupied by Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers was compared with those found to be unoccupied during surveys. Before the main period of decline, Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers used oak‐dominated, mature, open woods with a large amount of standing deadwood. Habitat use assessed from recent data was very similar, the species being present in mature, open, oak‐dominated woodlands. There was a strong relationship between wood use probability and the extent of woodland within a 3‐km radius, suggesting selection for more heavily wooded landscapes. In recent surveys, there was no difference in deadwood abundance or potential predator densities between occupied and unoccupied woods. Habitat management should focus on creating and maintaining networks of connected woodlands in areas of mature, open woods. Finer‐scale habitat selection by Lesser Spotted Woodpecker within woodlands should be assessed to aid development of beneficial management actions.

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“…Similarly, in a population of Great Tits, in which desertion was provoked in a subset of nests by an experimental clutch reduction on day 8 of incubation, the probability of desertion did not differ between early and late breeders (Verboven 1998). Either negative or positive association between laying date and the desertion probability is expected based on the assumption of a seasonal decline in re-laying opportunities and seasonal deterioration of the offspring quality (Bauchau and Seinen 1997;Fernandez and Reboreda 2000;Rossmanith et al 2007). Such an association, in most cases with latelaid clutches being more often deserted than early-laid ones, have been found for example in the Collared Flycatcher, the Fan-tailed Warbler (Cisticola juncidis), the Greater Rhea (Rhea americana), the Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) and the Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) (Cavalcanti 1981;Newton and Marquiss 1984;Ueda 1987;Wiggins et al 1994;Fernandez and Reboreda 2000).…”

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“…Based on the model of Webb et al (2002), it was predicted that body condition and laying date interact to affect the propensity for desertion in response to human disturbance: as the season progresses, the body condition threshold for deserting females would increase. Given that body condition and laying date affect the desertion probability independently of each other, it was predicted that: (1) birds in worse condition are either more (because of low expected reproductive value of the clutch) or less (because of very limited future breeding opportunities in this species) prone to desert the clutch, and (2) the probability of clutch desertion decreases with the advancement of the season because the chances of laying and successful rearing of the replacement clutch late in the season are constrained by food availability and time (Bauchau and Seinen 1997;Fernandez and Reboreda 2000), or alternatively (3) the probability of clutch desertion increases with the advancement of the season because the value of the offspring, measured as, e.g., body mass and immune function, declines with the progress of the season Rossmanith et al 2007). …”

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Condition-dependent clutch desertion in Great Tit (Parus major) females subjected to human disturbance

Dubiec

2011

J Ornithol

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Nest desertion behaviour in relation to body condition and timing of breeding was studied in Great Tit (Parus major) females during two breeding seasons. Desertion, most likely unintentionally provoked by catching females during the incubation period, occurred at a very high rate with 41.2 and 25.6% of deserted first clutches in the two study years. The association between desertion probability, body condition (index calculated as residuals from the regression of body mass on tarsus length) and timing of breeding differed between the seasons with the highest probability of desertion among females in low condition laying early in the season in one year and females in low condition laying late in the season in the other year. Desertion probability was best predicted by body condition with females in low condition deserting at much higher rate than females in good condition. These results suggest that nest desertion by females subjected to disturbance during the early stage of the nesting cycle may be associated with the level of their body reserves, and that patterns of desertion in relation to body condition and timing of breeding may differ between years.Zusammenfassung Während zweier Brutperioden wurde bei weiblichen Kohlmeisen das Verlassen der Gelege im Zusammenhang mit ihrer körperlichen Verfassung und dem Zeitpunkt des Brütens untersucht. Das Verlassen, höchstwahrscheinlich unabsichtlich vom Fang der Weibchen während des Brütens ausgelöst, trat in den beiden Untersuchungsjahren mit hoher Rate auf: 41,2 und 25,6% Erstgelege wurden verlassen. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Verlassens-Wahrscheinlichkeit, körperlicher Verfassung (Index berechnet als Residuen einer Regression von Körpermasse und Tarsus-Länge) und Zeitpunkt des Brütens variierte zwischen den Jahreszeiten; die höchste VerlassensWahrscheinlichkeit gab es bei Weibchen in weniger guter Verfassung und früher Brutzeit in dem einen Jahr und Weibchen in nicht guter Verfassung und später Brutzeit in dem anderen Jahr. Die körperliche Verfassung als Prädiktor der Verlassens-Wahrscheinlichkeit stimmte am besten für Weibchen in nicht guter Verfassung, bei denen die Verlassens-Rate viel höher lag als bei Weibchen in gutem physischen Zustand. Diese Ergebnisse legen die Annahme nahe, dass das Verlassen der Gelege von im frühen Niststadium gestörten Weibchen mit dem Stand ihrer Körperreserven zusammenhängt und das Verlassen in Abhängigkeit von der körperlichen Verfassung und der Zeit des Brütens von Jahr zu Jahr unterschiedlich sein könnte.

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Reproductive success and nestling diet in the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Picoides minor): the early bird gets the caterpillar

Cited by 38 publications

References 39 publications

Division of labour in parental care in the Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus

Division of labour in parental care in the Magellanic Woodpecker Campephilus magellanicus

Characteristics of woods used recently and historically by Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers Dendrocopos minor in England

Condition-dependent clutch desertion in Great Tit (Parus major) females subjected to human disturbance

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