Selection of nest sites by a hole‐nesting duck, the Goldeneye <i>Bucephala clangula</i>

Dow, Hilary; Fredga, Sven

doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1985.tb05034.x

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“…Goldeneyes Bucephala clangula prospect for nest sites (Eadie & Gauthier 1985, Zicus & Hennes 1989. and birds which nested in sites used previously, and especially those sites which were previously successful, had high nesting success (Dow & Fredga 1985). Cavity-nesting species tend to be nest site limited at some level: therefore, searching for successful sites the year before could save valuable time.…”

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Factors affecting nest site selection and nesting success in the Common Eider Somateria mollissima

Robertson

1995

Ibis

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Nesting site selection and nesting success in Common Eiders Somateria mollissima were studied over a 3‐year period (1991–1993) in the Mast River delta (58o24'N, 94o24'W), 40 km east of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Eiders preferentially nested on islands that had incubating Lesser Snow Geese Anser caerulescens caerulescens on them; this effect was also seen between years on the same islands. Eiders which nested on islands with geese had a reduced chance of having eggs taken by predators during egg‐laying and had a greater chance of hatching once incubation had begun, independent of the number of other eiders nesting on the island. The distance to a goose nest was less in nests which did not lose eggs prior to incubation than in those which did, but there was no difference in the distance to a goose nest in eider clutches which did or did not hatch. Artificial eider eggs placed closer to goose nests had a lower probability of being predated than those placed farther away. Nests on islands farther up the river and farther from the mainland had higher nesting success, presumably because these nesting islands were inaccessible to Arctic Foxes Alopex lagopus.

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Factors affecting nest site selection and nesting success in the Common Eider Somateria mollissima

Robertson

1995

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“…Common goldeneye females usually nest for several successive years in the same nest site if the previous nesting attempt has been successful but change the nest site after a failed attempt (Dow andFredga 1983, 1985;H. Pöysä, P. Runko, and A. Paasivaara, unpublished data).…”

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“…Data for R (i.e., predation vulnerability of nest sites) are difficult to gather, even in a long-term study, because a given nest site usually is not occupied every year and, in particular, because a given nest site usually remains unoccupied for one or more years after a depredated nesting attempt (Dow and Fredga 1983;H. Pöysä, unpublished data).…”

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Nest Predation and the Evolution of Conspecific Brood Parasitism: From Risk Spreading to Risk Assessment

Pöysä¹,

Pesonen²

2007

The American Naturalist

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Conspecific brood parasitism (CBP) is a taxonomically widespread reproductive tactic. One of the earliest hypotheses put forward to explain the evolution of CBP was "risk spreading"; that is, by laying eggs in more than one nest, parasites may increase the likelihood that at least one offspring will survive to independence. However, the risk spreading hypothesis, based on the assumptions of random nest predation and random selection of target nests by parasites, was theoretically refuted soon after its appearance. New results from the common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) have revealed that nests are not predated at random and that parasites preferentially lay in safe nests. By taking into account these findings and by modifying accordingly the basic assumptions of the earlier model that refuted the risk spreading hypothesis, we built a model to address the role of nest predation in the evolution of CBP. Model simulations revealed that the selective advantage of parasitic laying, related to nest predation, is much higher than previously thought. Furthermore, the invasion probability of parasitic tactic when initially rare was reasonably high within our model framework. We show that the use of risk assessing, instead of random risk spreading, makes parasitic laying evolutionarily advantageous.

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“…Pöysä (2006) found that successful nest sites were prospected more frequently by goldeneye females than unsuccessful nest sites, a pattern also found by Zicus and Hennes (1989). Previous studies have shown that nesting goldeneye females favour nests that have been successful in the previous breeding season (Eriksson 1979, Dow and Fredga 1983, 1985), resulting in long periods of years in which there are consecutive nesting attempts in a given nest site (Dow and Fredga 1985; see also Paasivaara and Pöysä 2008). Our present findings add to this pattern by showing that frequently occupied (and successful) nest sites are favoured by parasites year after year, while other, less frequently occupied nest sites do not attract parasites.…”

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Do parasitic common goldeneyeBucephala clangulafemales choose nests on the basis of host traits or nest site traits?

Paasivaara¹,

Rutila²,

Pöysä³

et al. 2010

Journal of Avian Biology

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Conspecific brood parasitism (CBP) is an important alternative breeding strategy for gaining reproductive output in birds. While interactions between hosts and parasites and consequences of CBP to breeding success of both parties have been studied a lot, the roles of host characteristics and nest site characteristics in CBP have received less attention. We studied the relative importance of host‐related traits, such as female condition and breeding experience, and nest‐site‐related factors, such as overall nest site preference and occupation rate, in explaining the occurrence of CBP in a common goldeneye Bucephala clangula population. We used spatially and temporally extensive data sets, analysed the data with generalized linear mixed models that allowed us to account for the non‐independency of individual nesting attempts across females and nesting sites, and used an information theoretic approach in model selection and inference. About half of the nests were parasitized annually during the seven year study period. The occurrence of CBP decreased with advancement of the breeding season but late nests were also frequently parasitized. We found that the occurrence of CBP was better explained by nest‐site characteristics than host traits, implying that parasitic females target a given nest based on factors related to the nest site itself rather than on the host. Our results suggest that more attention should be paid to factors associated with nest site attractiveness and quality when studying laying decisions of parasites and the occurrence of CBP in general.

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Selection of nest sites by a hole‐nesting duck, the Goldeneye Bucephala clangula

Cited by 52 publications

References 9 publications

Factors affecting nest site selection and nesting success in the Common Eider Somateria mollissima

Factors affecting nest site selection and nesting success in the Common Eider Somateria mollissima

Nest Predation and the Evolution of Conspecific Brood Parasitism: From Risk Spreading to Risk Assessment

Do parasitic common goldeneyeBucephala clangulafemales choose nests on the basis of host traits or nest site traits?

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