ArticleScientific reports2017
The importance of illumination in nest site choice and nest characteristics of cavity nesting birds.
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- The ecological importance of natural dark nights for circadian organization, metabolism and reproduction in birds.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Laying Hens: Why Smothering and Not Surviving?-A Literature Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Mother knows best: nest-site choice homogenizes embryo thermal environments among populations in a widespread ectotherm.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Effect of light intensity in the nest site on eggshell pigmentation in a hole-nesting passerine.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Fast visual adaptation to dim light in a cavity-nesting bird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Factors affecting space use by laying hens in a cage-free aviary system: effect of nest lighting at pullet housing and of curtain nest color during laying.Poultry science · 2023Article
- Welfare of broilers on farm.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2023Article
- The use of trail cameras to monitor species inhabiting artificial nest boxes.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Discriminant Canonical Tool for Differential Biometric Characterization of Multivariety Endangered Hen Breeds.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Light at night reduces digestive efficiency of developing birds: an experiment with king quail.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2021Article
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Abstract
Light has a significant impact on many aspects of avian biology, physiology and behaviour. An increasing number of studies show that illumination may positively influences birds' offspring fitness by e.g. acceleration of embryo development, stimulation of skeleton growth or regulation of circadian rhythm. Because nest cavities have especially low illumination, suitable light levels may be especially important for species which nest there. We may therefore expect that birds breeding in relatively dim conditions should prefer brighter nest sites and/or evolve behavioral mechanisms to secure sufficient light levels in the nest. Using nest boxes with modified internal illumination, we experimentally tested whether light regime is a cue for nest site selection of secondary cavity-nesting species. Additionally, we investigated whether nest building strategies are tuned to internal illumination. Our results demonstrate that, nest boxes with elevated illumination were chosen twice as often as dark nest boxes. Moreover, birds built higher nests in dark nest boxes than birds in boxes with elevated illumination, which suggests a mechanism of compensating for low light conditions. Our results provide the first experimental support for the idea that nest site choice and nest building behaviour in cavity-nesting birds are influenced by ambient illumination.
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