Predators of bird nests in the Neotropics: a review

JCT Menezes, MÂ Marini - Journal of Field Ornithology, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Predation is the main cause of nest failure among birds and, therefore, a strong selective
agent. To fully understand patterns of nest predation, determining the identities of nest …

Hatching asynchrony as a parental reproductive strategy in birds: a review of causes and consequences

E Węgrzyn, W Węgrzyn, K Leniowski - Journal of Ornithology, 2023‏ - Springer
Bird parents may choose among various breeding strategies. From an evolutionary point of
view the outcome of their choice is believed to provide the highest reproductive success in a …

Contact calls are used for individual mate recognition in free-ranging green-rumped parrotlets, Forpus passerinus

KS Berg, S Delgado, R Okawa, SR Beissinger… - Animal Behaviour, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Contact calls function to coordinate movements in a wide variety of social animals. Where
population density is high, visibility is low and repeated interactions occur between known …

Eviction-driven infanticide and sexually selected adoption and infanticide in a neotropical parrot

SR Beissinger, KS Berg - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Infanticide and adoption have been attributed to sexual selection, where an individual later
reproduces with the parent whose offspring it killed or adopted. While sexually selected …

Adaptive influence of extrinsic and intrinsic factors on variation of incubation periods among tropical and temperate passerines

TE Martin, R Ton, JC Oteyza - The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Understanding intrinsic (physiological) and extrinsic (eg, temperature) causes of variation in
embryonic development time (incubation period) is important because they can have …

The effects of exposure and microbes on hatchability of eggs in open‐cup and cavity nests

RD Godard, C Morgan Wilson, JW Frick… - Journal of Avian …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
Many avian species initiate incubation before clutch completion, resulting in an
asynchronous hatch of their eggs. Several studies suggest that early laid eggs in birds that …

Hatching failure is greater in altricial bird species with cavity nests and large clutches

AJ Di Giovanni, MJ Miller, TM Jones, TJ Benson… - …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Mortality rates are high for most avian species during early life stages, forming a critical
source of natural selection that helps shape the diversity of avian life-history traits. We …

Estimating rates of population change for a neotropical parrot with ratio, mark-recapture and matrix methods

BK Sandercock, SR Beissinger - Journal of Applied Statistics, 2002‏ - Taylor & Francis
Robust methods for estimating rates of population change (u) are necessary for applied and
theoretical goals in conservation and evolutionary biology. Traditionally, u has been …

Division of Labor: Incubation and Biparental Care in House Sparrows (Passer Domesticus)

TL Bartlett, DW Mock, PL Schwagmeyer - The Auk, 2005‏ - academic.oup.com
In the great majority of animal taxa, males do not participate in parental care, but substantial
paternal care is common across avian species. We examined male and female incubation …

Against the odds? Nestling sex ratio variation in green-rumped parrotlets

AE Budden, SR Beissinger - Behavioral Ecology, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
We investigated nestling sex ratio variation in the green-rumped parrotlet (Forpus
passerinus), a small neotropical parrot breeding in central Venezuela. There are strong …