Subject: [Tweeters] When Choosing Nest Sites,
Date: Jun 24 09:44:43 2008
From: Devorah Bennu - birdologist at yahoo.com


Hello Tweeties,

I ran across an interesting paper by a landscape ecologist at OSU that asks whether young birds who are breeding for the first time rely mostly on visual cues or social cues when choosing their nesting territory. Their findings have important implications for conservation and captive breeding programs for at least some species of birds;

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/06/social_cues_override_common_se.php

cheers,

GrrlScientist
Devorah
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/
Roosting high up a tree somewhere in Central Park, NYC