Nest decoration: birds exploit a fear of feathers to guard their nest from usurpation.
birds
deception
feathers
hole-nesting
nest usurping
predator avoidance
Journal
Royal Society open science
ISSN: 2054-5703
Titre abrégé: R Soc Open Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101647528
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
Historique:
received:
04
10
2021
accepted:
15
10
2021
entrez:
22
11
2021
pubmed:
23
11
2021
medline:
23
11
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Many species of birds incorporate feathers into their nest as structural support and to insulate the eggs or offspring. Here, we investigated the novel idea that birds reduce the risk of nest usurpation by decorating it with feathers to trigger a fear response in their rivals. We let prospecting birds choose between a dyad of nest-boxes in the wild, both containing some nest materials, but where one had a few white feathers and the other had none. All three species of cavity-nesting birds studied, the pied flycatcher
Identifiants
pubmed: 34804584
doi: 10.1098/rsos.211579
pii: rsos211579
pmc: PMC8596015
doi:
Banques de données
figshare
['10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5701970']
Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.41ns1rnf9']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
211579Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors.
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