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Titre :	Dynamics in numbers of group-roosting individuals in relation to pair-sleeping occurrence and onset of egg-laying in European Bee-eaters Merops apiaster (2017)
Auteurs :	Liviu G. Pârâu, Auteur ; Sjouke A. Kingma, Auteur ; Simon E. Weigl, Auteur ; Hannah L. Dugdale, Auteur ; Catherine M. Lessells, Auteur ; Julia Schroeder, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Journal of Ornithology (158(4) 2017/10/01)
Article en page(s) :	1119-1122
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Sleeping in the nest at the beginning of the breeding season is common for birds nesting in cavities. Here, we report evidence that European Bee-eaters Merops apiaster sleep in pairs in the nesting burrow. In 3.2% of the nest checks, we found two individuals sleeping together. This behaviour ceased once hatching started. A decrease in the number of birds at a communal roost coincided with the incidences of pair-sleeping and initiation of egg-laying. Thus, checking the burrows of European Bee-eaters at the beginning of the breeding season increases the chance of observing pair-sleeping.
En ligne :	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10336-017-1468-1

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