{"title":"Early parental nest initiation carries over to the departure date and quality of fledglings from the breeding grounds in the Purple Martin","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10336-024-02147-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> <p>The mortality rate of long-distance migrants is known to peak in the period between fledging and completing the first year of life. Our understanding of this sensitive life stage, however, lags behind our understanding of determinants of nestling success (at least for temperate breeding birds). Here we collect diverse data (morphometrics, phenology, nest videos, radio tracking detections) on two generations of a long-distance migrant (the Purple Martin, <em>Progne subis</em>). We examine multiple life stages, to understand how in-nest conditions may carry over to the post-fledge period. Our data show that an earlier first-egg date is associated with higher parental quality as determined by their tracked movements and provisioning effort. Despite high variability in first-egg date, the duration of the nestling phase was approximately consistent between nests, with fledge-date and date of fledgling departure from the breeding grounds highly constrained by a relatively fixed duration of nestling development. Offspring of early-nesting parents fledged in better body condition, as evidenced by their larger wing chord measurements. Given the fixed nesting duration, this higher parental quality in early nesters led to early-season nestlings having the dual advantage of elevated body condition and early departure dates—two known predictors of first migration survival in this species and many others. Our work illustrates a potential carry-over effect from the nestling phase to fall-migration, and provides a useful example of linking diverse data sets across multiple life stages to extend our knowledge of breeding success to the less-understood post-breeding phase.</p>","PeriodicalId":54895,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ornithology","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Ornithology","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-024-02147-2","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The mortality rate of long-distance migrants is known to peak in the period between fledging and completing the first year of life. Our understanding of this sensitive life stage, however, lags behind our understanding of determinants of nestling success (at least for temperate breeding birds). Here we collect diverse data (morphometrics, phenology, nest videos, radio tracking detections) on two generations of a long-distance migrant (the Purple Martin, Progne subis). We examine multiple life stages, to understand how in-nest conditions may carry over to the post-fledge period. Our data show that an earlier first-egg date is associated with higher parental quality as determined by their tracked movements and provisioning effort. Despite high variability in first-egg date, the duration of the nestling phase was approximately consistent between nests, with fledge-date and date of fledgling departure from the breeding grounds highly constrained by a relatively fixed duration of nestling development. Offspring of early-nesting parents fledged in better body condition, as evidenced by their larger wing chord measurements. Given the fixed nesting duration, this higher parental quality in early nesters led to early-season nestlings having the dual advantage of elevated body condition and early departure dates—two known predictors of first migration survival in this species and many others. Our work illustrates a potential carry-over effect from the nestling phase to fall-migration, and provides a useful example of linking diverse data sets across multiple life stages to extend our knowledge of breeding success to the less-understood post-breeding phase.
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The Journal of Ornithology (formerly Journal für Ornithologie) is the official journal of the German Ornithologists'' Society (http://www.do-g.de/ ) and has been the Society´s periodical since 1853, making it the oldest still existing ornithological journal worldwide.
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