Benefits of begging for yellow-headed blackbird nestlings

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 571-577

  Price, Karen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEGGING BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; INGESTION RATE; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE;

GALLUS GALLUS; PASSERIFORMES; TURDUS MERULA; XANTHOCEPHALUS; XANTHOCEPHALUS XANTHOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0032168883     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0832     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Bengtsson H., Ryden O. Parental feeding rate in relation to begging behavior in asynchronously hatched broods of the great titParus major. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 12:1983;243-251.
2. Burford J. E., Friedrich T. J., Yasukawa K. Response to playback of nestling begging in the red-winged blackbird,Agelaius phoeniceus. Animal Behaviour. 56:1998;555-561.
3. Clark A. B., Lee W.-H. Red-winged blackbird females fail to increase feeding in response to begging call playbacks. Animal Behaviour. 56:1998;563-570.
4. Clark A. B., Wilson D. S. Avian breeding adaptations: hatching asynchrony, brood reduction, and nest failure. Quarterly Review of Biology. 56:1981;253-277.
5. Gori D. F. Adjustment of parental investment with mate quality by male yellow-headed blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. Auk. 105:1988;672-680.
6. Green, D. J. 1993, The relationship between male courtship feeding, male provisioning, and reproductive decisions in the osprey (Pandion haliaetus). Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
7. Harper A. B. The evolution of begging: sibling compe-tition and parent-offspring conflict. American Naturalist. 128:1986;99-114.
8. Harris M. P. Parent-young communication in the puffinFratercula arctica. Ibis. 125:1983;109-114.
9. Haskell D. Experimental evidence that nestling begging behaviour incurs a cost due to nest predation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. 257:1994;161-164.
10. Henderson B. A. Role of the chick's begging behavior in the regulation of parental feeding behavior ofLarus glaucescens. Condor. 77:1975;488-492.
11. Hussell D. J. T. Supply and demand in tree swallow broods: a model of parent-offspring food-provisioning interactions in birds. American Naturalist. 131:1988;175-202.
12. Khayutin S. N., Dmitrieva L. P. Sensory organization of nest behaviour inParus major. Zoologische Zhurnal. 58:1979;1835-1847.
13. Lifjeld J. T. Prey choice and nestling hunger: an experiment with pied flycatchers,Ficedula hypoleuca. Animal Behaviour. 36:1988;134-139.
14. Litovich E., Power H. W. Parent-offspring conflict and its resolution in the European starling. Ornithological Monographs. 47:1992;1-71.
15. Martins T. L. F., Wright J. Cost of reproduction and allocation of food between parent and young in the swift (Apus apus. Behavioral Ecology. 4:1993;213-223.
16. Masman D., Dijkstra C., Daan S., Bult A. Energetic limitation of avian parental effort: field experiments in the kestrel (Falco tinnunculus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2:1989;435-455.
17. Miller D. E., Conover M. R. Differential effects of chick vocalizations and bill-pecking on parental behavior in the ring-billed bull. Auk. 96:1979;284-295.
18. Muller R. E., Smith D. G. Parent-offspring interactions in zebra finches. Auk. 95:1978;485-495.
19. Nottebohm F., Nottebohm M. E. Vocalizations and breeding behaviour of surgically deafened ring doves,Streptopelia risoria. Animal Behaviour. 19:1971;313-327.
20. Nur N. The consequences of brood size for breeding blue tits. II. Nestling weight, offspring survival and optimal brood size. Journal of Animal Ecology. 53:1984;497-517.
21. Orians G. H. Food of nestling yellow-headed blackbirds, Cariboo Parklands, British Columbia. Condor. 68:1966;321-337.
22. Orians G. H. Some Adaptations of Marsh-nesting Blackbirds. 1980;Princeton University Press. Princeton.
23. Patterson D. B., Erckmann W. J., Orians G. H. An experimental study of parental investment and polygyny in male blackbirds. American Naturalist. 116:1980;757-769.
24. Price, K. 1994, The behavioural ecology of begging by yellow-headed blackbirds. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
25. Price K., Ydenberg R. Begging and provisioning in broods of asynchronously hatched yellow-headed blackbird nestlings. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 37:1995;201-208.
26. Richter W. Balanced sex ratios in dimorphic altricial birds: the contribution of sex-specific growth dynamics. American Naturalist. 121:1983;158-171.
27. Richter W. Nestling survival and growth in the yellow-headed blackbird,Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. Ecology. 65:1984;597-608.
28. Ricklefs R. E. An analysis of nesting mortality in birds. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 9:1969;1-48.
29. Royama T. Factors governing feeding rate, food requirement and brood size of nestling great tits,Parus major. Ibis. 108:1966;313-347.
30. Stamps J., Clark A., Arrowood P., Kus B. Begging behavior in budgerigars. Ethology. 81:1989;177-192.
31. Tinbergen J. M. Foraging decisions in starlings (Sturnus vulgaris. Ardea. 69:1981;1-67.
32. Welham, C. V. J. 1993, Provisioning strategies of parent black terns. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
33. Whittingham L. A., Robertson R. J. Nestling hunger and parental care in red-winged blackbirds. Auk. 110:1993;240-246.
34. Wilkinson L. SYSTAT: The System for Statistics. 1988;SYSTAT. Evanston.
35. Willson M. F. Breeding ecology of the yellow-headed blackbird. Ecological Monographs. 36:1966;51-77.
36. Young H. Age-specific mortality in the eggs and nestlings of blackbirds. Auk. 80:1963;145-155.
37. Zahavi A. Reliability in communication systems and the evolution of altruism. Evolutionary Ecology. 1977;University Park Press. Baltimore. p. 253-259.