Nest building in titmice Paridae: Selectivity in bryophyte use.

ABSTRACT: In many bird species, reproductive success is dependent on nest quality. However, detailed data on nest composition are scarce, and quantitative analyses have generally used only rough categories, without species identification. Bryophytes dominate the nests of many passerine bird species, but little is known about whether birds have preferences for certain species. In this study, we determined the bryophyte species composition in nests of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus and great tits Parus major in a forest near Oslo, Norway. We also sampled the abundance of the bryophyte species in plots on the forest floor surrounding a subset of the great tit nests. Blue tits and great tits both used 15 bryophyte species as nest materials, mainly the same pleurocarpous species but in diffe

SUBMITTER: Rydgren K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9994477 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature