Nest box use and productivity of great crested flycatchers in prescribed-burned longleaf pine forests
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Published source details
White D.H. & Seginak J.T. (2000) Nest box use and productivity of great crested flycatchers in prescribed-burned longleaf pine forests. Journal of Field Ornithology, 71, 147-152.
Published source details White D.H. & Seginak J.T. (2000) Nest box use and productivity of great crested flycatchers in prescribed-burned longleaf pine forests. Journal of Field Ornithology, 71, 147-152.
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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.
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Use prescribed burning on pine forests Action Link |
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Provide artificial nesting sites for songbirds Action Link |
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Use prescribed burning on pine forests
A replicated study in 1996-1998 in a longleaf pine forest in South Carolina, USA (White & Seginak 2000), found that great crested flycatchers Myiarchus crinitus had larger clutches and slightly higher productivity in nest boxes in plots burned during the warm season (April-June: 4.9 eggs/clutch and 2.7 fledglings/clutch for 24 clutches) compared to those burned during the cool season (December-March: 4.5 eggs/clutch and 2.5 fledglings/clutch for 14 clutches). There were no differences in overall occupancy rates or hatching rates (21% occupancy and 61% hatching success for 210 boxes in plots burned in the warm season vs. 19% and 61% for 120 boxes in those burned in the cool season). This study is also discussed in ‘Provide artificial nest sites’
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Provide artificial nesting sites for songbirds
A replicated study in 1996-8 in a longleaf pine forest in South Carolina, USA (White & Seginak 2000), found that great crested flycatchers Myiarchus crinitus nested in 20% of 330 nest boxes provided, laying eggs in 88% of these (59 boxes in total). Differences in occupation and reproduction between areas burned in different seasons are described in ‘Use prescribed burning’.
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