All birds construct nests in which to lay eggs and/or raise offspring. Traditionally, it was
thought that natural selection and the requirement to minimize the risk of predation …

ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that breeding birds have a significant capacity
to assess and respond, over ecological time, to changes in the risk of predation to both …

Almost all organisms live in environments that have been altered, to some degree, by
human activities. Because behaviour mediates interactions between an individual and its …

Nest predation is a key source of selection for birds that has attracted increasing attention
from ornithologists. The inclusion of new concepts applicable to nest predation that stem …

590—PERSPECTIVES IN ORNITHOLOGY— AUK, VOL. 129 of young fledged) metrics. We
focused on papers that assessed nest success with respect to nest predation and/or …

Incubating new ideas about avian reproduction/SJ Reynolds & DC Deeming--The fossil
record and evolution of avian egg nesting and incubation/DC Deeming--Nest construction …

In order to explain the huge variation in parental behaviour, evolutionary biologists have
traditionally used a cost–benefit approach, which enables them to analyse behavioural traits …

Predation can be an important agent of natural selection shaping parental care behaviours,
and can also favour behavioural plasticity. Parent birds often decrease the rate that they visit …

Predation on dependent offspring (ie, offspring that depend on parents for care) forms a
critical source of natural selection that may shape a diversity of life history traits. Selection …

Nest visit synchrony, whereby adults coordinate their visits to the nest, has been
documented in several species of cooperative breeders. Visit synchrony may reduce nest …