Use of nest boxes by Vaux's Swifts

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 394-400

  Bull, Evelyn L ^a  

^a Pacific Northwest Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaetura vauxi; Nest box; Nest success; Oregon; Vaux's Swift

Indexed keywords

ABIES GRANDIS; APUS APUS; CHAETURA VAUXI; PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 0344441726     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1648/0273-8570-74.4.394     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. BETTS, B. J. 1998. Roosts used by maternity colonies of silver-haired bats in northeastern Oregon. Journal of Mammalogy 79: 643-650.
2. BULL, E. L., AND C. T. COLLINS. 1993. Vaux's Swift (Chaetura vauxi). In: The birds of North America (A. Poole, and F. Gill, eds.), no. 77. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.
3. _, AND J. E. HOHMANN. 1993. The association between Vaux's Swifts and old growth forests in northeastern Oregon. Western Birds 24: 38-42.
4. _, C. G. PARKS, AND T. R. TORGERSEN. 1997. Trees and logs important to wildlife in the interior Columbia river basin. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-391, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
5. DRENT, R. 1973. The natural history of incubation. In: Breeding biology of birds (D. S. Farner, ed.), pp. 262-311. National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C.
6. _. 1975. Incubation. In: Avian biology, vol. 5 (D. S. Farner, J. R. King, and K. C. Parkes, eds.), pp. 333-420. Academic Press, New York.
7. FINCH, D. M. 1989. Relationships of surrounding riparian habitat to nest-box use and reproductive outcome in House Wrens. Condor 91: 848-859.
8. FISCHER, R. B. 1958. The breeding biology of the Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica (Linnaeus). New York State Museum and Science Service Bulletin Number 368.
9. GRANT, G. L. 1982. Avian incubation: egg temperature, nest humidity, and behavioral thermoregulation in a hot environment. Ornithological Monographs 30: 1-75.
10. HANN, W. J., J. L. JONES, M. G. KARL, P. F. HESSBURG, R. E. KEANE, D. G. LONG, J. P. MENAKIS, C. H. MCNICOLL, S. G. LEONARD, R. A. GRAVENMIER, AND B. G. SMITH. 1997. Landscape dynamics of the basin. In: An assessment of ecosystem components in the interior Columbia Basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins (T. M. Quigley, and S. I. Arbelbide, eds.), pp. 337-1055. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-405, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
11. HUGGINS, R. A. 1941. Egg temperatures of wild birds under natural conditions. Ecology 22: 148-157.
12. JOHNSON, L. S., AND L. H. KERMOTT. 1994. Nesting success of cavity-nesting birds using natural tree cavities. Journal of Field Ornithology 65: 36-51.
13. LUNDY, H. 1969. A review of the effects of temperature, humidity, turning and gaseous environment in the incubator on the hatchability of the hen's egg. In: The fertility and hatchability of the hen's egg (T. C. Carter, and B. M. Freeman, eds.), pp. 243-276. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, Scotland.
14. MARTIN, T. E., AND P. LI. 1992. Life history traits of open-vs. cavity-nesting birds. Ecology 73: 579-592.
15. PURCELL, K. L., J. VERNER, AND L. W. ORING. 1997. A comparison of the breeding ecology of birds nesting in boxes and tree cavities. Auk 114: 646-656.