Imperial College London
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DrJuliaSchroeder

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 9086julia.schroeder

 
 
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2.13MunroSilwood Park

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Parau:2017:10.1007/s10336-017-1468-1,
author = {Parau, LG and Kingma, SA and Weigl, SE and Dugdale, HL and Lessells, CM and Schroeder, J},
doi = {10.1007/s10336-017-1468-1},
journal = {Journal of Ornithology},
pages = {1119--1122},
title = {Dynamics in numbers of group-roosting individuals in relation to pair-sleeping occurrence and onset of egg-laying in European Bee-eaters Merops apiaster},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-017-1468-1},
volume = {158},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Sleeping in the nest at the beginning of the breeding season is common for birds nesting in cavities. Here, we report evidence that European Bee-eaters Merops apiaster sleep in pairs in the nesting burrow. In 3.2% of the nest checks, we found two individuals sleeping together. This behaviour ceased once hatching started. A decrease in the number of birds at a communal roost coincided with the incidences of pair-sleeping and initiation of egg-laying. Thus, checking the burrows of European Bee-eaters at the beginning of the breeding season increases the chance of observing pair-sleeping.
AU  - Parau,LG
AU  - Kingma,SA
AU  - Weigl,SE
AU  - Dugdale,HL
AU  - Lessells,CM
AU  - Schroeder,J
DO  - 10.1007/s10336-017-1468-1
EP  - 1122
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 0021-8375
SP  - 1119
TI  - Dynamics in numbers of group-roosting individuals in relation to pair-sleeping occurrence and onset of egg-laying in European Bee-eaters Merops apiaster
T2  - Journal of Ornithology
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10336-017-1468-1
VL  - 158
ER  -
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