Can nest design hinder brood parasitism success?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61988987:17310/25:A2603BD0

Result on the web

<a href="https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jav.03300" target="_blank" >https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jav.03300</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jav.03300" target="_blank" >10.1111/jav.03300</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Can nest design hinder brood parasitism success?

Original language description

Avian nest design varies depending on environmental factors but may also be influenced by between-species interactions. In the brood parasitism context, hosts may evolve nest architectures that may limit parasite access to the nest cup, reduce parasite laying success or hinder parasite chick success. Therefore, nest characteristics may reduce the likelihood or minimise the costs of being parasitised. The common redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus is a regular host of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus, for which cuckoo eggs are often laid outside the nest cup, resulting in low effective parasitism rates. This allowed us to evaluate variation in host nest design and test whether nest design characteristics correlate with brood parasitism likelihood and cuckoo laying success (i.e. cuckoo egg laid in the nest cup versus outside the nest cup). While recording brood parasitism events in two distant redstart populations, we documented nest cup characteristics, such as internal dimensions, materials used and nest cup position, along with the nest-box dimensions. Cuckoo parasitism likelihood was lower for redstart nests in cavities with smaller entrances, for redstart nests with smaller nest cups and with nest cups that were built level to the rim material. For parasitised nests, cuckoo laying success was lower at redstart nests with nest cups placed further from the cavity entrance. Our results suggest a conditional process, where the cavity entrance size first prevents brood parasites access, then the cup size and the cup level in reference to the rim material affect the cuckoo choice, and finally, the nest cup position hinders cuckoo's laying success. The use of multiple nest design strategies may explain the current low effective parasitism rates in this system. Host nest design may serve as a frontline defence that could shape parasite's preferences, and consequently host nest characteristics.

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

10615 - Ornithology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-26812S" target="_blank" >GA22-26812S: Coevolutionary struggle between a highly virulent brood parasite and its major host</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Avian Biology

ISSN

0908-8857

e-ISSN

1600-048X

Volume of the periodical

2025

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

e03300

UT code for WoS article

001291381500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85201142050