Agricultural habitat use and selection by a sedentary bird over its annual life cycle in a crop-depredation context.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Modern agriculture has undoubtedly led to increasing wildlife-human conflicts, notably concerning bird damage in productive and attractive crops during some parts of the annual cycle. This issue requires utmost attention for sedentary birds that may impact agricultural crops at any stage of their annual life cycle. Reducing bird-human conflicts requires a better understanding of the relationship between bird foraging activity and the characteristics of agricultural areas, notably with respect to changes in food-resource availability and crop sensitivity across the year.

Methods

We explored how GPS-tagged adult male western jackdaws- sedentary corvids- utilize agricultural areas throughout their annual cycle, in a context of crop depredation. More precisely, we des

SUBMITTER: Chambon R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10981352 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature