Use of anthropogenic-related nest material and nest parasite prevalence have increased over the past two centuries in Australian birds

Potvin, Dominique A.; Opitz, Fabiola; Townsend, Kathy A.; Knutie, Sarah A.

doi:10.1007/s00442-021-04982-z

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“…Jagiello et al 54 and Blettler et al 55 ). Using anthropogenic-related nest material always leads to nest parasite prevalence (Hanmer et al 56 but Potvin et al 57 ), and it strongly influences avian reproduction (nest building 58 and nestling care 59 ) and survival, 60 and thereby population dynamic. 61 Moreover, the harm of plastic pollution to birds is regionally universal.…”

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Nest predation, brood parasitism and the reproductive success of the masked laughingthrush Garrulax perspicillatus in the rural habitat of central China

Guo

Lin

et al. 2022

Avian Biology Research

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Knowledge of nest site selection and reproductive ecology is fundamental to understanding the evolution of life history traits and developing species conservation strategies. However, life history traits of species in the genus Garrulax are poorly known. Particularly, research on the breeding biology of Garrulax perspicillatus in their natural habitat and comparison between populations in different environments (rural vs urban) are lacking. We presented data of nest site selection and breeding ecology of Masked Laughingthrush in central China during 2021, and made a detailed investigation on nest predation and interspecific brood parasitism. The breeding season began from March and ended in August. Most nests were built on Sulphur Bamboo (Phyllostachys sulphurea). First-egg laying occurred between late March and late July. Incubation period lasted 13.9 days (± 0.3 SE; 13 – 15) and nestling period of 13.1 days (± 0.2 SE; 12 – 15). Average clutch size was 3.8 eggs (± 0.1 SE; 3 – 7), and brood size at fledging was 2.7 young (± 0.2 SE; 1 – 4). Overall, 36.2% of nesting attempts successfully fledged at least one young. Nest predation (0% in March, 38.2% in April, 30.0% in May, 20.0% in June and 27.3% in July) and interspecific brood parasitism (13.3% in May, 40.0% in June and 36.4% in July) were two main reasons for nest failure. This is the first study that provided detailed information of breeding ecology of Masked Laughingthrush in rural habitat, and we discussed the difference of life history traits between urban and rural habitats.

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Nest predation, brood parasitism and the reproductive success of the masked laughingthrush Garrulax perspicillatus in the rural habitat of central China

Guo

Lin

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Avian Biology Research

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“…In addition to data compiled from online data sources, there has also been a recent shift to using nests held in museum collections [18,20,52]. Perez et al [52] use more than 700 nests from 55 passerine species held in museums to examine the link between nest design and behavioural flexibility, which is likely to be an important determinant of survival for species in a changing world.…”

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“…Meanwhile, an array of modern descriptive and analytical techniques, including computational approaches, enables the quantification of the shape of nests from digital images and other scans [15][16][17]. Studies of nests stored in museums also provide new possibilities to examine temporal and spatial variation in nest characteristics in a level of detail not previously possible [18][19][20]. This range of novel and updated approaches has vastly advanced our understanding of the evolutionary ecology of nests by enabling researchers to perform studies that were impossible just a few years ago.…”

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The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach

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Stoddard

Barber

et al. 2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Nests, including the enormous structures housing colonies of eusocial insects and the elaborately built nests of some fishes, have long fascinated scientists, yet our understanding of the evolutionary ecology of nests has lagged behind our understanding of subsequent reproductive stages. There has, however, been a burgeoning amount of interest in nests over the past decade, and this special issue on ‘The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach' outlines our understanding of the form and function of nests in diverse animal lineages. Papers in ‘The function of nests: mechanisms and adaptive benefits' theme examine the various functions of nests, while papers in ‘The evolution of nest characteristics' theme examine the evolution of nesting behaviours. Meanwhile, papers in the ‘Large communal nests in harsh environments' theme examine how the enormous structures constructed by eusocial insects and social birds enable them to inhabit harsh arid environments, whereas papers in the ‘Nests in the Anthropocene' theme examine how adaptive shifts in nest architecture allow animals to adapt to breed in the age of accelerating global human impacts. Finally, the synthesis outlines how the mixture of ideas and approaches from researchers studying different taxa will advance our understanding of this exciting field of research. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach’.

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“…[8] and references therein). However, this behaviour by birds was observed from as early as the 1830s [9] with first reports published in 1933 (e.g. [10]).…”

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“…Potvin et al . [9] examined 893 nests of 224 bird species held in Australian museums and found that while 4% of nests collected in 1832 contained ANM, this had increased to nearly 30% by 2018. They put this temporal increase in ANMs down to the increased incorporation of more persistent synthetic material compared to more biodegradable nest constituents.…”

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Why do some bird species incorporate more anthropogenic materials into their nests than others?

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Reynolds

Nagy

et al. 2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Many bird species incorporate anthropogenic materials (e.g. sweet wrappers, cigarette butts and plastic strings) into their nests. Anthropogenic materials have become widely available as nesting materials in marine and terrestrial environments globally. These human-made objects can provide important benefits to birds such as serving as reliable signals to conspecifics or protecting against ectoparasites, but they can also incur fundamental survival and energetic costs via offspring entanglement and reduced insulative properties, respectively. From an ecological perspective, several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the use of anthropogenic nest materials (ANMs) by birds but no previous interspecific study has tried to identify the underlying mechanisms of this behaviour. In this study, we performed a systematic literature search and ran phylogenetically controlled comparative analyses to examine interspecific variation in the use of ANM and to examine the influence of several ecological and life-history traits. We found that sexual dimorphism and nest type significantly influenced the use of ANMs by birds providing support for the ‘signalling hypothesis’ that implies that ANMs reflect the quality of the nest builder. However, we found no support for the ‘age’ and ‘new location’ hypotheses, nor for a phylogenetic pattern in this behaviour, suggesting that it is widespread throughout birds. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach’.

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Use of anthropogenic-related nest material and nest parasite prevalence have increased over the past two centuries in Australian birds

Cited by 22 publications

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Nest predation, brood parasitism and the reproductive success of the masked laughingthrush Garrulax perspicillatus in the rural habitat of central China

Nest predation, brood parasitism and the reproductive success of the masked laughingthrush Garrulax perspicillatus in the rural habitat of central China

The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach

Why do some bird species incorporate more anthropogenic materials into their nests than others?

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