Visible marking of wader nests to avoid damage by farmers does not increase nest predation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F18%3AN0000060" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/18:N0000060 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/18:10391800

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international/article/div-classtitlevisible-marking-of-wader-nests-to-avoid-damage-by-farmers-does-not-increase-nest-predationdiv/C97448E9F16835DA9C3AE581A6DCB7F9" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international/article/div-classtitlevisible-marking-of-wader-nests-to-avoid-damage-by-farmers-does-not-increase-nest-predationdiv/C97448E9F16835DA9C3AE581A6DCB7F9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959270916000617" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0959270916000617</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Visible marking of wader nests to avoid damage by farmers does not increase nest predation

Original language description

Only a few studies have assessed the predation risk on artificially marked nests, or have examined ways of marking nests to avoid destruction by machinery. Until now, however, neither type of study has directly addressed this apparent trade-off experimentally. The impact of marking the nests of Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus with thin 2 m-long conspicuous bamboo poles with the top end highlighted with reflective red or orange spray has been tested for three years in two breeding areas of waders in the Czech Republic. A total of 52 pairs of nests on agricultural land, with each pair consisting of one marked nest and one unmarked reference counterpart nest, were monitored for 2004 nest-days until hatching, agricultural operations or failure. The results proved that marking itself does not result in increased nest predation. The nests found in the early incubation stage were under higher threat of depredation, irrespective of the presence of marking. Our results show that it is possible to find a finely-tuned trade-off in nest marking of ground-nesting birds between risk of damage by agricultural machinery and risk of increased nest predation. Our positive experience with Northern Lapwing, and episodically with three other wader species in the Czech Republic, suggests that this direct nest protection could be used effectively for a wider variety of ground-nesting birds.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Bird Conservation International

ISSN

0959-2709

e-ISSN

1474-0001

Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

293-301

UT code for WoS article

000452085300010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85013031406