| Text | 456895 2021 10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.07.014 Scopus 2 s2.0 85113967425 CAVITY NESTING CONSPECIFIC ATTRACTION DOUBLE BOX FALCO NAUMANNI INFORMED DECISION LESSER KESTREL NEST REUSE NEST SUBSTRATE NESTBOX CHOICE EXPERIEMENT OLD NEST MATERIAL Combining social information use and comfort seeking for nest site selection in a cavity nesting raptor Morinay J.; De Pascalis F.; Dominoni D.M.; Morganti M.; Pezzo F.; Pirrello S.; Visceglia M.; De Capua E.L.; Cecere J.G.; Rubolini D. Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per La Protezione e La Ricerca Ambientale ISPRA , Ozzano Emilia, BO , Area Avifauna Migratrice, Istituto Superiore per La Protezione e La Ricerca Ambientale ISPRA , Ozzano Emilia BO , Italy, , Italy; Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Universita Degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Universita Degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, , Italy; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., , , United Kingdom; Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., , , United Kingdom; Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque CNR IRSA , Brugherio, MB , Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque CNR IRSA , Brugherio, MB , Italy, , , Italy; Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque CNR IRSA , Brugherio, MB , Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque CNR IRSA , Brugherio, MB , Italy, , , Italy; Area Epidemiologia, Ecologia e Gestione Della Fauna Stanziale e Degli Habitat, Istituto Superiore per La Protezione e La Ricerca Ambientale ISPRA , Ozzano Emilia, BO , Area Epidemiologia, Ecologia e Gestione Della Fauna Stanziale e Degli Habitat, Istituto Superiore per La Protezione e La Ricerca Ambientale ISPRA , Ozzano Emilia BO , Italy, , Italy; De Rerum Natura, Montescaglioso, MT , De Rerum Natura, Montescaglioso MT , Italy, , Italy; Provincia di Matera Parco Della Murgia Materana, Provincia di Matera Parco Della Murgia Materana, Italy, , Italy When selecting a breeding site, individuals can use social information to reduce the uncertainty regarding habitat quality. Individuals of several bird species tend to reuse nests previously occupied by conspecific or heterospecific competitors but the proximate mechanisms underlying this behaviour remain unclear. Reoccupying nests previously used by competitors could result from individuals copying competitors choices the social information hypothesis . Alternatively, it could allow individuals to fulfil their need for a soft nest substrate e.g. by improving thermal insulation or reducing egg breakage risks at low costs, regardless of previous occupancy the comfort hypothesis . Here, we aimed to determine which of these nonmutually exclusive mechanisms triggered the preference for old conspecific nest material in a secondary cavity nesting raptor that does not add lining material to its nests, the lesser kestrel, Falco naumanni. Using an experimental design forcing settling lesser kestrels to choose between two adjacent nestboxes containing different substrates, we detected a strong preference for soft substrates peat moss or old conspecific or European roller, Coracias garrulus, nest material over coarse mineral substrate, especially when the soft substrate also provided social information about previous nest use by a competitor. Despite the apparent absence of preference when directly comparing settlement patterns in soft substrates with and without social information, early settling individuals favoured the substrate with social information, while late settling ones favoured the substrate without social information. This could reflect intraspecific competition avoidance by late arriving individuals that may be competitively inferior to early arriving ones. This hypothesis is supported by a later laying date of young breeders in our population. Our findings suggest that both comfort seeking and social information use explain the preference for previously used nest cavities, and that nest site choices may depend on individual competitive abilities and experience. 180 Published version http //www.scopus.com/record/display.url eid=2 s2.0 85113967425 origin=inward Combining social information use and comfort seeking for nest site selection in a cavity nesting raptor PDF OF THE PAPER 23_Morinay et al 2021 Social Information use nest selection AnimBehav.pdf Articolo in rivista Baillie`re Tindall etc. 0003 3472 Animal behaviour Print Animal behaviour Print Anim. behav. Print Animal behaviour. Print Animal behavior Print RUBOLINI DIEGO michelangelo.morganti MORGANTI MICHELANGELO |
