Bats and Swifts as food of the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in a small town in Slovakia ...
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bats (Chiroptera) and Common Swifts (Apus apus) are excellent fliers that use buildings as roosts and breeding sites in urban areas. Some predators have recently become adapted to hunting formerly unavailable prey. One such urban predator is the Eur...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.13441054 2024-09-15T17:49:29+00:00 Bats and Swifts as food of the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in a small town in Slovakia ... Mikula, Peter Hromada, Martin Tryjanowski, Piotr 2013 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13441054 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13441054 unknown Zenodo hash://md5/8b5fb7f9c6aea1caae46640208b6bd05 hash://sha256/b03aca98f2785b62b41550bd4f85d93221e85ef06fef36d729228bf180434978 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/5N7IT68K https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/5N7IT68K https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/7df90f65a0b4df2513e0c62b556a5e09!/b203748-206211 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 hash://md5/8b5fb7f9c6aea1caae46640208b6bd05 hash://sha256/b03aca98f2785b62b41550bd4f85d93221e85ef06fef36d729228bf180434978 zotero://select/groups/5435545/items/5N7IT68K https://zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/5N7IT68K https://linker.bio/cut:hash://md5/7df90f65a0b4df2513e0c62b556a5e09!/b203748-206211 hash://md5/26f7ce5dd404e33c6570edd4ba250d20 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1410543 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13441055 Biodiversity Mammalia Chiroptera Chordata Animalia bats bat JournalArticle ScholarlyArticle article-journal 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1344105410.5281/zenodo.141054310.5281/zenodo.13441055 2024-09-02T10:14:17Z (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bats (Chiroptera) and Common Swifts (Apus apus) are excellent fliers that use buildings as roosts and breeding sites in urban areas. Some predators have recently become adapted to hunting formerly unavailable prey. One such urban predator is the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). We analyzed the diet and foraging behaviour of this species in Bardejov, North-Eastern Slovakia. In several observed breeding pairs, some bird began to hunt bats using novel foraging behaviour: sit-and-wait above ventilation channels of building facades where bats roosted, using ambush and perching tactics. Kestrel pairs that specialised in hunting bats also hunted Swifts. We did not find significant differences between Kestrel sexes in hunting bats and Swifts, but Kestrels preying on bats and Swifts had significantly higher breeding success than those that did not. Recently, Kestrels and their novel prey, bats and Swifts, have become endangered by rapidly-improved insulation of ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Apus apus DataCite |
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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Bats (Chiroptera) and Common Swifts (Apus apus) are excellent fliers that use buildings as roosts and breeding sites in urban areas. Some predators have recently become adapted to hunting formerly unavailable prey. One such urban predator is the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). We analyzed the diet and foraging behaviour of this species in Bardejov, North-Eastern Slovakia. In several observed breeding pairs, some bird began to hunt bats using novel foraging behaviour: sit-and-wait above ventilation channels of building facades where bats roosted, using ambush and perching tactics. Kestrel pairs that specialised in hunting bats also hunted Swifts. We did not find significant differences between Kestrel sexes in hunting bats and Swifts, but Kestrels preying on bats and Swifts had significantly higher breeding success than those that did not. Recently, Kestrels and their novel prey, bats and Swifts, have become endangered by rapidly-improved insulation of ... |
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Bats and Swifts as food of the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in a small town in Slovakia ... |
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Bats and Swifts as food of the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in a small town in Slovakia ... |
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Bats and Swifts as food of the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in a small town in Slovakia ... |
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Bats and Swifts as food of the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in a small town in Slovakia ... |
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Bats and Swifts as food of the European Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) in a small town in Slovakia ... |
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bats and swifts as food of the european kestrel (falco tinnunculus) in a small town in slovakia ... |
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