https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2020.478
Copying nesting attempts in a new site may be the wrong choice. A case in the European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
Submitted: 10 September 2020
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Published: 27 January 2021
Accepted: 18 January 2021
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Insistent nesting attempts by a group of European Beeeaters in a new site, a pebbly bank of the middle course of Trebbia River, northern Italy, mostly failed because of the unmovable pebbles encountered during tunnel excavation. The birds later nested in an artificial sand heap, with full success that time. Various considerations suggest that birds insisted in the unsuitable site because they copied the nesting activity of model conspecifics. Finding social attraction and “public information” from conspecifics in a place where no breeding attempt was previously made would allow disentangling social philopatry from spatial philopatry.
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Londei, T. (2021). Copying nesting attempts in a new site may be the wrong choice. A case in the European Bee-eater (<em>Merops apiaster</em>). Rivista Italiana Di Ornitologia, 90(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/rio.2020.478
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