Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Is multiple nest building an adequate strategy to cope with inter-species nest usurpation?

BMC evolutionary biology - 6 May 2016

Sumasgutner Petra, Millán Juan, Curtis Odette, Koelsag Ann, Amar Arjun

Abstract excerpt

BACKGROUND: Black sparrowhawks (Accipiter melanoleucus) recently colonised the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, where the species faces competition for their nest sites from Egyptian geese (Alopochen aegyptiaca) which frequently usurp black sparrowhawk nests. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that multiple nest building by black sparrowhawks is a strategy to cope with this competitor, based on a 14-year long...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Breeding
Share to Competitive Behavior
Share to Geese

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Nesting Behavior

Share to Phenotype

Share to Reproduction

Share to Seasons

Share to South Africa

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 27150363
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-016-0671-7
PMCID: PMC4858914

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Is multiple nest building an adequate strategy to cope with inter-species nest usurpation?PMID 27150363Read ↗

Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Stable social relationships between unrelated females increase individual fitness in a cooperative bird.Semantic proximity Read ↗

The role of human-related risk in breeding site selection by wolvesSemantic proximity Read ↗

Bird-window collisions in the summer breeding seasonSemantic proximity Read ↗

Social phenotype extended to communities: expanded multilevel social selection analysis reveals fitness consequences of interspecific interactions.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Landscape change shifts competitive dynamics between declining at-risk wolverines and range-expanding coyotes, compelling a new conservation focusSemantic proximity Read ↗

Breeding dispersal of Baltic dunlins is not an adaptive response to unpredictable nest floodingSemantic proximity Read ↗

Brood size manipulations in a spatially and temporally varying environment: male Tengmalm's owls pass increased reproductive costs to offspring.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?Semantic proximity Read ↗

Higher reproductive success of small males and greater recruitment of large females may explain strong reversed sexual dimorphism (RSD) in the northern goshawk.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Sex-specific associative learning cues and inclusive fitness benefits in the Seychelles warbler.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Local adaptation and matching habitat choice in female barn owls with respect to melanic coloration.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.