Artificially induced group display and nesting behaviour in a reintroduced population of Caribbean flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber ruber
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O'Connell-Rodwell C.E., Rojek N., Rodwell T.C. & Shannon P.W. (2004) Artificially induced group display and nesting behaviour in a reintroduced population of Caribbean flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber ruber. Bird Conservation International, 14, 55-62.
Published source details O'Connell-Rodwell C.E., Rojek N., Rodwell T.C. & Shannon P.W. (2004) Artificially induced group display and nesting behaviour in a reintroduced population of Caribbean flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber ruber. Bird Conservation International, 14, 55-62.
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Use artificial visual and auditory stimuli to induce breeding in wild populations Action Link |
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Use artificial visual and auditory stimuli to induce breeding in wild populations
A small before-and-after study in the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean in 1992 (O'Connell-Rodwell et al. 2004) found there was an increase in group display and nest-building behaviour in a population of six (two females, four males) Caribbean flamingos Phoenicopterus ruber, following the introduction of ten life-sized flamingo decoys, eight artificially constructed mud nests (some with artificial eggs) and the playback of recordings of display vocalisations (3.6% of behavioural records in the two weeks after stimuli introduction were related to group display vs. no records in 12 hours before stimuli introduction).
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