Translocation of red-cockaded woodpeckers by reciprocal fostering of nestlings
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Published source details
Wallace M.T. & Buchholz R. (2001) Translocation of red-cockaded woodpeckers by reciprocal fostering of nestlings. Journal of Wildlife Management, 65, 327-333.
Published source details Wallace M.T. & Buchholz R. (2001) Translocation of red-cockaded woodpeckers by reciprocal fostering of nestlings. Journal of Wildlife Management, 65, 327-333.
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This study is summarised as evidence for the following.
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Foster eggs or chicks of woodpeckers with wild conspecifics
A replicated, paired site study from April-July in 1997-1998 in 20 experimental and 18 control (containing 22 nestlings) red-cockaded woodpecker Picoides borealis nests in 5 forest sites in Louisiana, USA (Wallace & Buchholz 2001), found that fostered nestlings exhibited similar fledging rates to native nestlings in the same nests (85% of 20 fostered and 86% of 22 native nestlings fledged) and nestlings in control nests (68% of 22 control nestlings fledging). On average, fostered nests produced more fledglings than control nests (1.8 compared to 1.3 fledglings / nest). Feeding rates for fostered and native nestlings were similar. Cross-fostered nestlings were matched by age. Native and control nestlings were handled and returned to their native nests.
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Translocate woodpeckers
A study in 1997-8 in Louisiana, USA (Wallace & Buchholz 2001), found that red-cockaded woodpeckers Picoides borealis translocated through fostering had similar fledging rates to native nestlings. This study is discussed in ‘Foster eggs or chicks with wild conspecifics’.
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