… was likely due to a compromise between thermal protection and camouflage because they
… of nest materials improved egg camouflage in terms of luminance, although the materials …

… We found that the nesting material was a near-perfect color match to the eggs, irrespective
of whether they were composed of dried vegetation or stones (median = 1.9 JNDs, see Figure …

… -off in nest material choices by a ground-nester, the Kentish plover Charadrius alexandrinus,
between the need for egg camouflage and to avoid egg overheating. This species nests in …

… Predation of eggs is a major threat to birds' reproductive success… materials of a color to
camouflage their nests, in the field they may choose materials that aid in camouflaging their nests …

… avian egg camouflage, achieved through the gradual adherence of substrate material to the
… placed four soiled eggs and four clean eggs in eight artificial nests separated approximately …

… nest-predation strategies involve visual concealment of the nest by way of parental camouflage
and egg camouflage… Although testing unnatural nesting materials against an equally …

… covering behaviour in plovers, and shown it to be one of the best predictors of nest material
… To do so, we compared egg camouflage for the conspecific comparisons and comparisons …

… camouflage should be more important than egg camouflage for … The images or other third
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… This was done in I959 with the special aim of investigating how the gulls distinguished
between egg shells and nest material. The immediate impetus to this was given by BEER'S …

… We might speculate that egg camouflage could be directly assessed visually, predicting
that escape behavior should respond to experimentally manipulated background matching. …