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Article: Observation of a Northern Cardinal nest reused by a Gray Catbird in the same season.(Short Communications)(Report)
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- The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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Reuse of the same nest is well documented among colonial breeders (Shields 1984), cavity nesters (Harvey et al. 1979, Newton 1994), and species nesting on natural ledges and artificial structures (Bent 1942). Presumably, these birds reuse nests due to scarcity of suitable nest sites. A few non-colonial nesting passerines have been documented reusing nests from 1 year to the next (Marshall et al. 2001). There have been few records of a passerine reusing the nest of a different passerine in the same breeding season. One instance involved a Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) usurping a Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) nest in its territory (Nickell 1965). A non-passerine, ...
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...Did You Know? In winter, people can help northern cardinals by putting out food, even for a short time. Experts used to say that people should not feed birds unless they can keep putting out food all the time. The experts were worried that birds would begin to depend on one feeder. Then if the food
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