All birds construct nests in which to lay eggs and/or raise offspring. Traditionally, it was
thought that natural selection and the requirement to minimize the risk of predation …

ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that breeding birds have a significant capacity
to assess and respond, over ecological time, to changes in the risk of predation to both …

It has been suggested that increased predation rates may rival habitat alteration as a causal
agent in farmland bird population declines. Such a view may be over‐simplistic, however, as …

Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

Urban areas contain high densities of non‐native species, which in the UK include the
domestic cat F elis catus (L innaeus 1758) and the grey squirrel S ciurus carolinensis (G …

Population declines are often attributed to either habitat change or increased predation
rates, without a full consideration of the potential for these two factors to interact. This may …

Summary 1 A simple model of relative effects of parental behaviour (parents present vs.
absent) and nest concealment on probability of nest predation was evaluated by measuring …

Innovations in nest design are thought to be one potential factor in the evolutionary success
of passerine birds (order: Passeriformes), which colonized new ecological niches as they …

In areas of human settlement, greenways and open-space land are often intended to serve
recreational purposes as well as provide wildlife habitat, but the compatibility of these goals …

Abstract In environments such as arctic tundra, where bird densities are low and habitats are
comparatively homogeneous, suitable nest sites likely are not limited. Under these …