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Parent-offspring recognition in bank swallows (Riparia riparia): I. Natural history
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1981 |
Authors: | Beecher, MD, Beecher, IM, Lumpkin, S |
Journal: | Animal Behaviour |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 1 |
Date Published: | 1981 |
ISBN Number: | 0003-3472 |
Keywords: | Hirundinidae, Hirundo, Hirundo rustica, Riparia, Riparia riparia |
Abstract: | A field study of the highly colonial bank swallow (Riparia riparia) revealed several contexts in which parent-offspring recognition occurs. Parents find their young away from the bank when the young make spontaneous flights from the burrow, and also when the young, after such flights, have returned to incorrect burrows. The resident adult in the latter situation also shows recognition, by [`]evicting' alien chicks. Resident adults also make mistakes, however, and feed alien chicks. An analysis of these mistakes revealed that (a) the majority of mistakes are made by the male parent, and (b) mistakes generally do not exceed 0.5% of the parent's total feeding bouts. Parents also feed young in a cr |
URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347281801558 |
Short Title: | Animal Behaviour |
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