Low frequencies of supernormal clutches in the Southern Dunlin and the Temminck’s Stint |
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Author: | Pakanen, Veli-Matti1; Blomqvist, Donald2; Breiehagen, Torgrim3; |
Organizations: |
1Department of Ecology and Genetics, P.O. Box 3000, 90014 University of Oulu, Finland 2Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, Gothenburg, 405 30, Sweden 3Breievegen 201, 3570 Ål, Norway
4Rannevägen 12, Varberg, 432 95, Sweden
5Deceased 6Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 7Ljungvägen 3, Väröbacka, 430 22, Sweden 8University Museum of Bergen, Dept. of Natural History, University of Bergen, PO Box 7800, N-5020 Bergen, Norway 9Environmental Agency, Valtakatu 11, 28100 Pori, Finland 10Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC), Ekologihuset, Sölvegatan 37, Lund, Sweden 11Department of Animal Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 1212Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, Tartu 51014, Estonia 13Biology Department, FI-20014 Turku University, Finland 14FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa 15Zoological Museum, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Str. 6, Moscow 125009, Russia 16PO Box 82227, Fairbanks, Alaska 99708, USA |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 1 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020042322282 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
BioOne,
2019
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Publish Date: | 2020-04-23 |
Description: |
AbstractSupernormal clutches are found across bird species. Such clutches often result from more than one female laying eggs in the same nest and can reflect different behaviours from parasitism to laying mistakes. Enlarged clutches are readily visible among waders due to a maximum maternal clutch size of four eggs, yet surprisingly little is known about this phenomenon. Since supernormal clutches are rare, large sample sizes are required to reliably quantify their natural frequencies. We used a large dataset to estimate the frequency of supernormal clutches in the polygamous Temminck’s Stint Calidris temminckii and the monogamous Southern Dunlin C. alpina schinzii, and examine the timing of supernormal clutches in relation to the general distribution of nest initiation dates. While supernormal clutches were very rare, they were over four times more common in the Temminck’s Stint (0.50%, n = 1594) than in the Southern Dunlin (0.11%, n = 2766). Dunlin show among the lowest frequency of supernormal clutches reported for waders. In the Temminck’s Stint, supernormal clutches were found in the middle of the season, while in the Southern Dunlin such clutches occurred in late season replacement nests. The higher rate and timing of enlarged clutches in Temminck’s Stints probably relates to the lspecies’ breeding system, which can include simultaneous courtship of multiple partners, but more work is needed to assess the relative influence of different factors. We argue that intraspecific nest parasitism is unlikely to be a primary reproductive tactic in small sandpipers. see all
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Series: |
Ardea |
ISSN: | 0373-2266 |
ISSN-E: | 2213-1175 |
ISSN-L: | 0373-2266 |
Volume: | 107 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 61 - 74 |
DOI: | 10.5253/arde.v107i1.a |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.5253/arde.v107i1.a |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology |
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Copyright information: |
© Netherlands Ornithologists' Union. The final authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v107i1.a9. |