Nest Box Use for Winter Roosting within a Flock of Tits

IF 0.4 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q4 ECOLOGY Polish Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2019-09-05 DOI:10.3161/15052249PJE2019.67.2.005
Jakub Typiak, M. Typiak, T. Mazgajski
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ABSTRACT Roosting in various shelters allows saving energy, especially in winter, thus hole nesting birds, like tits, search for places suitable to spend cold nights. Because the environment probably does not provide enough shelters for all birds from a winter flock to roost, a competition for best sites, as nest boxes, probably occurs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe the pattern of using the nest boxes by birds for roosting during three consecutive winter seasons and to determine the structure of a group of roosting birds in relation to the winter flock. Tits were captured and marked; daily controls of nest boxes were performed to find out which of them the tits used for roosting and subsequently, birds entering these boxes were caught at night. Great tits Parus major were the most abundant species roosting in the studied boxes with proportion of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus differed between years. Young individuals prevailed among the birds roosting in nest boxes. However the age and sex structure of great tits roosting in nest boxes was similar to that observed in winter flocks, which was in contrast to earlier studies that found that the males and older individuals, high in the social hierarchy of the flock, will take over these boxes. The size of winter flock differs strongly among winters, thus it is possible that the level of competition for these roosting sites also varies between the years.
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巢箱用于山雀群的冬季栖息
在各种各样的避难所栖息可以节省能源,特别是在冬天,因此洞巢鸟类,如山雀,寻找适合度过寒冷夜晚的地方。由于环境可能无法为冬季鸟群中的所有鸟类提供足够的栖息场所,因此可能会发生争夺最佳筑巢地点(如巢箱)的竞争。因此,本研究的目的是描述鸟类在连续三个冬季使用巢箱筑巢的模式,并确定一组筑巢鸟类与冬季鸟群的结构关系。山雀被捕获并标记;每天对巢箱进行控制,以找出山雀用来筑巢的巢箱,随后在夜间捕获进入这些巢箱的鸟。大山雀(Parus major)以蓝山雀(Cyanistes caeruleus)所占比例不同年份差异最大。在巢箱里栖息的鸟类中,幼鸟占多数。然而,在巢箱中栖息的大山雀的年龄和性别结构与在冬季鸟群中观察到的相似,这与早期的研究相反,研究发现,在鸟群中社会等级较高的雄性和年龄较大的个体将接管这些盒子。冬季鸟群的大小在不同的冬季有很大的不同,因此这些栖息地点的竞争程度也可能在不同的年份之间有所不同。
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Polish Journal of Ecology
Polish Journal of Ecology 环境科学-生态学
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18-36 weeks
期刊介绍: POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY (formerly Ekologia polska) publishes original scientific research papers dealing with all aspects of ecology: both fundamental and applied, physiological ecology, evolutionary ecology, ecology of population, community, ecosystem, landscape as well as global ecology. There is no bias regarding taxons, ecosystems or geographical regions.
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