Interspecific Broods at Two Heronries in Iran

Abbas Ashoori; Mauro Fasola

doi:10.1675/063.041.0208

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Abbas Ashoori,^1,* Mauro Fasola²

¹1Gilan Provincial Office of the Department of the Environment, P.O. Box 1433, Rasht, Iran
²2Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 9, Pavia, Italy

^*Corresponding author; E-mail: abbasashoori67@gmail.com

Abstract

Four cases of interspecific mixed broods between Little Egrets (Egretta garzetta; n = 175), Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis; n = 125), Squacco Herons (Ardeola ralloides; n = 25) and Black-crowned Night-Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax; n = 199) were recorded from 7 April to 16 August 2016 at two colonies in Iran. The rare occurrence of mixed broods and the low survival of the parasite chicks suggest that brood parasitism is not adaptive in the Ardeidae.

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Abbas Ashoori and Mauro Fasola "Interspecific Broods at Two Heronries in Iran," Waterbirds 41(2), 171-173, (1 June 2018). https://doi.org/10.1675/063.041.0208

Received: 9 October 2017; Accepted: 9 December 2017; Published: 1 June 2018

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