Age, brood fate, and territory quality affect nest-site fidelity in white stork Ciconia ciconia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A particular type of site fidelity is faithfulness to the nest site, where birds are not only reoccupying breeding territories but also reusing nests built in previous breeding seasons. Staying faithful to the nest site is believed to be an adaptive strategy, and based on the ability to predict an individual's own breeding success, a hypothesis of "win-stay:loose-switch" was proposed. In this study, we aimed to resolve which factors affect the nest-site fidelity of white stork Ciconia ciconia, species known for reusing nests available in the breeding sites. Basing on ring recoveries from 31 years of studies in Western and Southern Poland, we analysed the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on nest-site fidelity.

Results

We found that increasing age and breed

SUBMITTER: Bialas JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10512545 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature