| Titre : | Nest-site selection of the Iberian Green Woodpecker (Picus sharpei) in three biogeographical regions (2023) |
| Auteurs : | Diego Villanua, Auteur ; Alberto Lizarraga, Auteur ; David Campión, Auteur ; Alfonso Senosiain, Auteur ; Gorka Gorospe, Auteur ; Xabier Cabodevilla, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Journal of Ornithology (164(1) January, 2023) |
| Article en page(s) : | 115-123 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés: | Agrosystems ; Cavity nesters ; Decaying trees ; Forest management |
| Résumé : | The Iberian Green Woodpecker is an endemic species of the Iberian Peninsula that has been little studied. We describe the nesting habitat selection of this species in the three biogeographic regions where the species is located. The characteristics of 78 trees with occupied nests and 312 other randomly chosen trees in the vicinity of the nests were compared, as well as the proportion of open and forest habitat in two buffers (100 and 1000 m) around the nest. Nesting was confirmed in 19 different species of trees, with a mean diameter at breast height of 41.10 cm (range 30–60 cm) and a mean height of 12.43 m (range 3–20 m). Differences were found between the three biogeographic regions regarding the use of open and forest habitats and the selection of the type of tree to nest. Even so, it can be concluded that this woodpecker prefers to nest in Populus and Fagus trees, dead or at least decaying, with the presence of fungi and with a DBH greater than that of the surrounding trees. These results show not only the great plasticity of this species, but also its dependence on the existence of decaying trees and of certain dimensions in which to build the nest. |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-022-02024-w |



