Birds of a Feather Help Together

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Title
Birds of a Feather Help Together
Source
ZOOL 567, Fall 2021
Rights
CC-BY
Contributor
Piktochart
Pexels
Savchuck, Alexander
Ungaro, Francesco
42 North
Snapwire
Plenio, Johannes
Visser, Phillip
Creator
Teves, Maria
Description
An infographic describing cooperative breeding as it occurs in corvids. It focuses on the methodologies for the study of the behaviour, influencers and their impacts, and the benefits that this behavior confers on these birds.
References
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Baglione, V., Marcos, J. M., Canestrari, D., Griesser, M., Andreotti, G., Bardini, C., & Bogliani, G. (2005). Does year-round territoriality rather than habitat saturation explain delayed natal dispersal and cooperative breeding in the carrion crow? The Journal of Animal Ecology, 74(5), 842–851. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00983.x
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Ekman, J., & Ericson, P. G. (2006). Out of Gondwanaland; the evolutionary history of cooperative breeding and social behaviour among crows, magpies, jays and allies. Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences, 273(1590), 1117–1125. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2005.3431
Innes, K. E., & Johnston, R. E. (1996). Cooperative breeding in the white-throated magpie-jay. How do auxiliaries influence nesting success? Animal Behaviour, 51(3), 519–533. https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1996.0057
Ren, Q.-M., Luo, S., Du, X.-J., Chen, G.-L., & Du, B. (2016). Helper effects in the azure-winged magpie Cyanopica cyana in relation to highly-clumped nesting pattern and high frequency of conspecific nest raiding. Journal of Avian Biology, 47(4), 449-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00783
Valencia, J., Solis, E., Sorci, G., & de la Cruz, C. (2006). Positive correlation between helpers at nest and nestling immune response in a cooperative breeding bird. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 60(3), 399–404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-006-0179-z
Wascher, C. A. F., Canestrari, D., & Baglione, V. (2019). Affiliative social relationship and coccidian oocyst excretion in a cooperatively breeding bird species. Animal Behaviour, 158, 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.10.009
Date
12/01/2021
Category
Parental Care/Social Behaviour
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