Prospecting during egg laying informs incubation recess movements of eastern wild turkeys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Central place foragers must acquire resources and return to a central location after foraging bouts. During the egg laying (hereafter laying) period, females are constrained to a nest location, thus they must familiarize themselves with resources available within their incubation ranges after nest site selection. Use of prospecting behaviors by individuals to obtain knowledge and identify profitable (e.g., resource rich) locations on the landscape can impact demographic outcomes. As such, prospecting has been used to evaluate nest site quality both before and during the reproductive period for a variety of species.

Methods

Using GPS data collected from female eastern wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) across the southeastern United States, we evaluated

SUBMITTER: Bakner NW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10792941 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature