Assessing the causes of breeding failure among the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) during the nestling period
When food becomes scarce, the youngest nestlings in facultatively siblicidal raptor species typically die and such events are usually attributed to siblicide. Here we present results from an investigation in the Arctic tundra, in which rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) breeding success was monito...
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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/2608 2024-09-09T19:23:36+00:00 Assessing the causes of breeding failure among the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) during the nestling period Pokrovsky, Ivan Ehrich, Dorothee Ims, Rolf A. Kulikova, Olga Lecomte, Nicolas Yoccoz, Nigel G. 2012-03-12 application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip text/xml https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2608 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.17294 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2608/pdf_1 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2608/html https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2608/5944 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2608/xml https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2608 doi:10.3402/polar.v31i0.17294 Polar Research; Vol 31 (2012) 1751-8369 Buteo lagopus nestling mortality rough-legged buzzard camera monitoring siblicide heat wave info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2012 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v31i0.17294 2024-06-20T23:33:17Z When food becomes scarce, the youngest nestlings in facultatively siblicidal raptor species typically die and such events are usually attributed to siblicide. Here we present results from an investigation in the Arctic tundra, in which rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) breeding success was monitored with regular visits to nests and time-lapse cameras that continuously recorded the activity of chicks and their parents. The study took place in the Nenetsky Nature Reserve (68°20´N, 53°18´E) in the Russian Arctic, in 2007-10. It included 26 cases of chick mortality in 19 nests. The camera monitoring led us to discover instances of scavenging of chicks that had died due to starvation or bad weather in two nests. Camera monitoring also led us to discover how a sequence of abrupt weather shifts, between hot and sunny conditions and heavy rain, probably caused the death of nestlings in two nests. Detailed nest monitoring is required to avoid the mistaken attribution of such deaths to siblicide. Such extreme weather events may become more common with climate change and represent a new potential factor affecting roughlegged buzzards breeding success in the southern Arctic.Keywords: Buteo lagopus; nestling mortality; rough-legged buzzard; camera monitoring; siblicide; heat wave(Published: 12 March 2012)Citation: Polar Research 2012, 31, 17294, DOI:10.3402/polar.v31i0.17294 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Polar Research Tundra Polar Research Arctic Polar Research 31 1 17294 |
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When food becomes scarce, the youngest nestlings in facultatively siblicidal raptor species typically die and such events are usually attributed to siblicide. Here we present results from an investigation in the Arctic tundra, in which rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) breeding success was monitored with regular visits to nests and time-lapse cameras that continuously recorded the activity of chicks and their parents. The study took place in the Nenetsky Nature Reserve (68°20´N, 53°18´E) in the Russian Arctic, in 2007-10. It included 26 cases of chick mortality in 19 nests. The camera monitoring led us to discover instances of scavenging of chicks that had died due to starvation or bad weather in two nests. Camera monitoring also led us to discover how a sequence of abrupt weather shifts, between hot and sunny conditions and heavy rain, probably caused the death of nestlings in two nests. Detailed nest monitoring is required to avoid the mistaken attribution of such deaths to siblicide. Such extreme weather events may become more common with climate change and represent a new potential factor affecting roughlegged buzzards breeding success in the southern Arctic.Keywords: Buteo lagopus; nestling mortality; rough-legged buzzard; camera monitoring; siblicide; heat wave(Published: 12 March 2012)Citation: Polar Research 2012, 31, 17294, DOI:10.3402/polar.v31i0.17294 |
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Assessing the causes of breeding failure among the rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus) during the nestling period |
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