Colonizers on the road: European bee-eaters shift nest-site selection to roadside habitats
2025
Román, Jacinto | Blas, Julio | Bastianelli, Giulia | Suárez-Couselo, Miguel A. | Revilla, Eloy | D'Amico, Marcello | Junta de Andalucía | SEO/BirdLife | Fundación Jaime González-Gordon | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España) | Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España) | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España) | European Commission | Román, Jacinto [0000-0003-0675-9432] | D'Amico, Marcello [0000-0002-0573-9184]
Nest-site selection in birds results from a compromise among nest-predation risk, food availability, and microclimatic requirements (Martin, 1993, 1995). The European bee-eater Merops apiaster, an aerial-foraging insectivorous bird, breeds gregariously by digging tunnel nests at a sufficient depth underground to mitigate the impact of surface temperature (Casas-Crivillé & Valera, 2005; White et al., 1978). Additionally, substrate quality is crucial, requiring soils that are soft enough to be excavated yet firm enough to prevent nest collapse (Heneberg & Šimeček, 2004; White et al., 1978). [...]
Afficher plus [+] Moins [-]The fieldwork of the present study has been funded by the Andalusian Ministry of Environment of the Regional Government of Andalusia (Project 2008X0963) and SEO/Birdlife (2016 Grants for Early-Career Researchers). Land-Rover España S.A. kindly lent a vehicle. ICTS-Doñana provided logistic support for the fieldwork and access to the Field notebooks of Doñana's ornithologists. Miguel A. Suárez-Couselo has been supported by the Jaime González Gordon Foundation (2022 Grants for MSc theses in Doñana), Marcello D'Amico by the JAE-PRE fellowship by CSIC, the Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Program (IJC2019-039662-I) by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (IJC2019-039662-I), and the project “Plan Complementario de I+D+i en el área de Biodiversidad (PCBIO)” funded by the European Union (BIOD22_00033_6_PPCB) within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan - NextGenerationEU and by the Regional Government of Andalusia (BIOD22_00033_6_PPCB).
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