Time-Activity Budgets of Waterfowl Wintering on Livestock Ponds in Northeast Texas

Mason, Corey D.; Whiting, R. Montague; Conway, Warren C.

doi:10.1656/058.012.0423

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“…Our studies observed significant differences between active and inactive behaviour proportions for Chilean Flamingo in Lagoa do Peixe, while studies on five different species of captive flamingos in England did not show a significant difference between these proportions in the flocks . Captivity environments are more stable than natural conditions, both in terms of climatic variables, population numbers and food availability, which can explain the differences between active patterns between captivity studies and ours (Mason et al 2013). Besides that, we also detected a significant variation among the months of the studies, with an increase in inactive displays during June and August, and an increase of more active behaviours during September and October.…”

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“…Captivity environments are more stable than natural conditions, both in terms of climatic variables, population numbers and food availability, which can explain the differences between active patterns between captivity studies and ours (Mason et al . 2013). Besides that, we also detected a significant variation among the months of the studies, with an increase in inactive displays during June and August, and an increase of more active behaviours during September and October.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Intra‐annual variation in activity budgets of a wild Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) population in Southern Brazil

Delfino

Carlos

2022

Austral Ecology

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Assessing animal behaviour is essential for understanding their relationship with the environment and assisting in the management and conservation of species in natural habitats, especially those that present large range distribution and occupy very dynamic environments. The Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis, Aves: Phoenicopteridae) breeds in the temperate regions of South America, going from Ecuador to the south of Argentina, but moves to regions on the southern coast of Brazil and Uruguay during the non-breeding season. To understand activity patterns and behavioural variations on wild Chilean Flamingos in Brazil, we carried out monthly field trips to the Lagoa do Peixe National Park, on the middle coast of Rio Grande do Sul state, between May and November 2019, totalling 99.8 total hours of observation. Forty-one different behaviours were detected, divided into six categories: Feeding, Locomotion, Resting, Preening, Social Agonist and Social Non-Agonist. A significant variation in frequency, total duration and mean duration was detected for the behavioural categories over the months, mainly in the social categories, possibly indicating a strong influence of climatic aspects, such as temperature, rainfall and wind, but also of population aspects, such as flock density and stage of the reproductive cycle, in the behaviours observed in the lagoon. We also detected a variation in behavioural richness and active behaviours among the months, indicating that contranuptial areas like Lagoa do Peixe can be used for more than only feeding and resting.

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Intra‐annual variation in activity budgets of a wild Chilean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus chilensis) population in Southern Brazil

Delfino

Carlos

2022

Austral Ecology

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“…Over the 2012 winter, we visited a WWTP in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and took numerous photographs of mallards on the WWTP ponds. From these, we scored behavior according to an ethogram, in which we determined time-budgets for locomotion, ingestion, vigilance (alertness), comfort (preening and bathing), resting, and aggression (Mason et al 2013). Despite a large number and density of mallards on the ponds (>1000 at a time), there were no obvious indicators that mallards were behaving any differently from those on more southern ponds.…”

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2017

Integr Environ Assess Manag

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“…Over the 2012 winter, we visited a WWTP in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and took numerous photographs of mallards on the WWTP ponds. From these, we scored behavior according to an ethogram, in which we determined time‐budgets for locomotion, ingestion, vigilance (alertness), comfort (preening and bathing), resting, and aggression (Mason et al ). Despite a large number and density of mallards on the ponds (>1000 at a time), there were no obvious indicators that mallards were behaving any differently from those on more southern ponds.…”

Section: Field Studymentioning

confidence: 99%