A surveillance camera reveals season-long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis)
This study employed a high-resolution camera to capture a visual record of an active Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) nest throughout an entire breeding season to document nesting activities and behaviors which are incompletely known in this species. The camera captured footage 24 h...
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| description | This study employed a high-resolution camera to capture a visual record of an active Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) nest throughout an entire breeding season to document nesting activities and behaviors which are incompletely known in this species. The camera captured footage 24 hours a day from arrival of the adults at Box Canyon Falls, Ouray, Colorado, to fledging. Nest repairs began a week after arrival and were conducted 83% of the time by the female. Egg-laying occurred three weeks after arrival. The adults nearly equally shared incubation, brooding, and chick provisioning duties; the male performed 49% of effective incubation, 47% of brooding, and 51% of provisioning while the female contributed 51%, 53%, and 49%, respectively. Adults fed the nestling intermittently both day and night until age 15 days, at which time brooding ended, the nestling spent days alone, and provisioning occurred primarily at night. The nestling started wing exercises at age 13 days and they continued in increasing frequency and duration until the day prior to fledging at 51 days of age. The nesting pair exhibited cathemeral behavior, active night and day to conduct activities necessary for survival and to successfully raise their offspring. Although only one nest was observed, the surveillance camera was an effective tool for recording otherwise difficult-to-observe activities, especially those occurring at night, and revealed many previously unknown breeding activities and behaviors for this species. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-52e5ce644d74424e810ac20dc2e642e62023-01-02T14:44:56ZengResilience AllianceJournal of Field Ornithology1557-92632022-12-0193410187A surveillance camera reveals season-long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis)Carolyn GunnThis study employed a high-resolution camera to capture a visual record of an active Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) nest throughout an entire breeding season to document nesting activities and behaviors which are incompletely known in this species. The camera captured footage 24 hours a day from arrival of the adults at Box Canyon Falls, Ouray, Colorado, to fledging. Nest repairs began a week after arrival and were conducted 83% of the time by the female. Egg-laying occurred three weeks after arrival. The adults nearly equally shared incubation, brooding, and chick provisioning duties; the male performed 49% of effective incubation, 47% of brooding, and 51% of provisioning while the female contributed 51%, 53%, and 49%, respectively. Adults fed the nestling intermittently both day and night until age 15 days, at which time brooding ended, the nestling spent days alone, and provisioning occurred primarily at night. The nestling started wing exercises at age 13 days and they continued in increasing frequency and duration until the day prior to fledging at 51 days of age. The nesting pair exhibited cathemeral behavior, active night and day to conduct activities necessary for survival and to successfully raise their offspring. Although only one nest was observed, the surveillance camera was an effective tool for recording otherwise difficult-to-observe activities, especially those occurring at night, and revealed many previously unknown breeding activities and behaviors for this species.https://journal.afonet.org/vol93/iss4/art10/black swiftbreeding<span style="font-style: normal">cypseloides niger borealis</span>nesting behaviorsurveillance camera |
| spellingShingle | Carolyn Gunn A surveillance camera reveals season-long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) Journal of Field Ornithology black swift breeding <span style="font-style: normal">cypseloides niger borealis</span> nesting behavior surveillance camera |
| title | A surveillance camera reveals season-long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) |
| title_full | A surveillance camera reveals season-long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) |
| title_fullStr | A surveillance camera reveals season-long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) |
| title_full_unstemmed | A surveillance camera reveals season-long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) |
| title_short | A surveillance camera reveals season-long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the Northern Black Swift (Cypseloides niger borealis) |
| title_sort | surveillance camera reveals season long nesting activities and behaviors at a nest of the northern black swift cypseloides niger borealis |
| topic | black swift breeding <span style="font-style: normal">cypseloides niger borealis</span> nesting behavior surveillance camera |
| url | https://journal.afonet.org/vol93/iss4/art10/ |
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