ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018
'Green incubation': avian offspring benefit from aromatic nest herbs through improved parental incubation behaviour.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Nest secondary plants and their associations with haemosporidian blood parasites in blue tit females.Parasitology · 2024Article
- Experimental light at night explains differences in activity onset between urban and forest great tits.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Nest construction in mammals: a review of the patterns of construction and functional roles.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Functions of Snake Sloughs in Bird Nests Vary with Habitats: A Test of the Anti-Predation Hypothesis.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- 'Green incubation': avian offspring benefit from aromatic nest herbs through improved parental incubation behaviour.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Effects of experimental nest treatment with herbs on ectoparasites and body condition of nestlings.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Development of avian embryos requires thermal energy, usually from parents. Parents may, however, trade off catering for embryonic requirements against their own need to forage through intermittent incubation. This dynamically adjusted behaviour can be affected by properties of the nest. Here, we experimentally show a novel mechanism by which parents, through incorporation of aromatic herbs into nests, effectively modify their incubation behaviour to the benefit of their offspring. Our study species, the European starling, includes in its nest aromatic herbs which promote offspring fitness. We provided wild starlings with artificial nests including or excluding the typically selected fresh herbs and found strong support for our prediction of facilitated incubation. Herb effects were not explained by thermal changes of the nests
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