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Titre :	Additional data on a pair of European Roller Coracias garrulus breeding in nestbox. (2016)
Auteurs :	Jerome Guillaumot, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Alauda (84(4) 2016)
Article en page(s) :	241-252
Résumé :	After the detailed survey in 2015 of a nestbox breeding pair of Roller in Mediterranean France (GUILLAUMOT, 2016), another survey was carried out in 2016. A few new facts have been found in that year. The onset of the breeding season was marked by the early arrival (13 April) of the adults on the site (Gard, France), 10 days earlier than the average date for the last 8 years. A case of infanticide has occured. The first five eggs have been laid between 5 and 20 May and then destroyed by an adult Roller in the following hours or days. Six new eggs were laid between 21 and 31 May and normally incubated. The incubation duration has been again markedly longer as usually known in this species (17 to 20 days):

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