Wind turbine noise limits propagation of greater prairie‐chicken boom chorus, but does it matter?

Ethology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 125 (12) ◽  
pp. 863-875
Author(s):  
Cara E. Whalen ◽  
Mary Bomberger Brown ◽  
JoAnn McGee ◽  
Larkin A. Powell ◽  
Edward J. Walsh
2019 ◽  
Vol 153 ◽  
pp. 132-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cara E. Whalen ◽  
Mary Bomberger Brown ◽  
Joann McGee ◽  
Larkin A. Powell ◽  
Edward J. Walsh

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 3414-3414
Author(s):  
Cara Whalen ◽  
Mary B. Brown ◽  
JoAnn McGee ◽  
Larkin Powell ◽  
Edward J. Walsh

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff A. Johnson ◽  
Michael A. Schroeder ◽  
Leslie A. Robb

2013 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 1202-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ty W. Matthews ◽  
Andrew J. Tyre ◽  
J. Scott Taylor ◽  
Jeffrey J. Lusk ◽  
Larkin A. Powell

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99
Author(s):  
Ian R. Hoppe ◽  
Jocelyn O. Harrison ◽  
Edward J. Raynor IV ◽  
Mary Bomberger Brown ◽  
Larkin A. Powell ◽  
...  

Avian incubation involves behavioral decisions that must balance trade-offs between the incubating bird’s survival and current and future reproductive success. We evaluated variation in incubation off-bout duration and frequency among Greater Prairie-Chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus (Brewster, 1885)) in the Nebraska Sandhills, USA. Greater Prairie-Chicken life history favors incubation behaviors that prioritize success of the current breeding attempt over adult survival. Previous observations suggest incubating females make these behavioral decisions based on ambient temperature conditions, their own body condition, and predation risk. We monitored nest attendance by females at 30 Greater Prairie-Chicken nests to identify proximate cues used to make behavioral decisions regarding incubation. We recorded 930 incubation off-bouts. Females took 1.9 ± 0.7 off-bouts/day (mean ± SD), each with a mean (±SD) duration of 43.3 ± 24.1 min. Off-bouts were shorter in duration at higher wind speeds, at lower ambient temperatures, at nests with less cover, and at nests closer to roads. Females were most likely to leave the nest during mid-morning and evening, as are most gallinaceous birds, and incubation off-bouts became less frequent later in the season. We did not observe differences in incubation behavior between nests that failed and those that successfully hatched one or more chicks.


Measurement ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaofeng Liu ◽  
Lin Bo ◽  
Martin Veidt

2012 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance B. McNew ◽  
William J. White

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan D. Pierce ◽  
Evangelia Kotsaros

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