Stick supply to nests by cliff-nesting raptors as an evolutionary load of past tree-nesting
The supply of sticks to cliff nests by many European raptors has been explained only as a functional means of decreasing ectoparasite loads in nests and for signalling nest occupancy. We provide here a historical explanation of this behaviour as we consider it represents an evolutionary load of form...
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| Language: | English |
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Queen's University
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Ideas in Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/article/view/13337 |