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Survival and dispersal of the Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca, an endemic migrant

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Date
07/2016
Author
Xenophontos, Marina
Cresswell, Will
Keywords
Palearctic migrants
Site fidelity
Oeananthe cypriaca
Migration
Mortality
QH301 Biology
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Many populations of European migrant bird species are declining and this may be driven by survival rates but there are few studies that can estimate true survival rates. Cyprus Wheatears Oenanthe cypriaca are an endemic migrant that winter in East Africa: populations are probably not declining but are annually variable. We measured their apparent survival by recording territory occupation and reoccupation in a colour-ringed population of 45 - 69 pairs over a 4 year period (2010-2013) from April – August, to determine how it varied with sex, age and year. We then estimated true survival by correcting apparent survival for dispersal by recording territory shifts and how this also varied by sex, age and year. Apparent annual survival rate varied significantly by sex, age and year (males 2011,2012, 2013 : 0.70, 0.50, 0.62; females: 0.56, 0.34, 0.47; chicks: 0.35, 0.19, 0.28) but was not affected by the productivity of territory. An average of 1.1% of males and 8.2% of females were lost during breeding, where 5/7 lost females were found depredated during incubation. Adults did not usually change territories between years (87% resident and 99% moved less than 4 territories between years) regardless of sex, productivity or year; chicks, independent of their sex, moved on average three territories away from their natal territory. After correcting apparent survival for the probability of dispersal, males had the highest true minimum annual survival compared to females which were very similar to chicks (males 2011, 2012, 2013: 0.77, 0.50, 0.65; females: 0.65, 0.35, 0.50; chicks: 0.64, 0.34, 0.49). The results indicate a very high survival rate for a small passerine migrant, although they are probably sufficiently annually variable to profoundly affect annual population dynamics. If females have lower survival, sex ratio at birth may be female biased to compensate; alternatively females may have longer range dispersal than we could measure, particularly if they respond to their mates not returning by moving territories, leading to an underestimate of their true survival. High survival may be due to the rarity of sparrowhawks on Cyprus and the wheatears relatively short distance migration.
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Xenophontos , M & Cresswell , W 2016 , ' Survival and dispersal of the Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca , an endemic migrant ' , Journal of Ornithology , vol. 157 , no. 3 , pp. 707-719 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-015-1315-1
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Journal of Ornithology
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-015-1315-1
ISSN
2193-7192
Type
Journal article
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This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://crea tivecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8204

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