Facultative interspecific brood parasitism in tits: a last resort to coping with nest-hole shortage

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• 作者：Rafael Barrientos ; Javier Bueno-Enciso…
• 关键词：Cyanistes caeruleus ; Forest fragmentation ; Last resort hypothesis ; Nest parasitism ; Parus major ; Sibling rivalry
• 刊名：Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：October 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：69
• 期：10
• 页码：1603-1615
• 全文大小：525 KB
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• 作者单位：Rafael Barrientos (1)
  Javier Bueno-Enciso (1)
  Eva Serrano-Davies (1)
  Juan José Sanz (2)
  
  1. área de Zoología, Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias del Medio Ambiente, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Avenida Carlos III, s/n, 45071, Toledo, Spain
  2. Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006, Madrid, Spain
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Behavioural Sciences
  Zoology
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-0762

文摘

We studied the occurrence of facultative interspecific brood parasitism (eggs from two species incubated by a single female) in two bird species, the blue (Cyanistes caeruleus) and the great tit (Parus major). These species are secondary cavity nesters. We monitored 38 forest plots of variable size over 3 years. We found a total of 39 mixed-species clutches in 1285 nests, representing a prevalence of 3.0 %, but it reached 7.2 % in small woodlands. Seventeen mixed-species clutches involved blue tit facultative interspecific brood parasitism, with the same number of great tits usurping and directly laying in blue tit clutches. The higher the nest-box occupation rate, the greater the prevalence of mixed-species clutches of any origin. However, the two tit species behaved differently when faced with nest-hole shortage, with blue tits dumping one or two eggs into clutches incubated by great tits and these taking over the entire blue tit clutch. Nest takeovers were more frequent at the end of the season. These differences in behaviour are likely mediated by differing dominance status, with great tits being larger. The difference in size could also explain why great tit chicks presented larger hatching and fledging rates than their blue tit broodmates. These rates were lower in blue tit chicks from mixed-species broods compared with pure ones, and no advantages were found in usurper great tit chicks compared to pure broods. Mixed-species clutches appear to be a response to nest-hole shortage, a concept that we have termed the ‘last resort hypothesis- Keywords Cyanistes caeruleus Forest fragmentation Last resort hypothesis Nest parasitism Parus major Sibling rivalry