Faculty Opinions recommendation of Odour-based natal nest recognition in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), a colony-breeding songbird.

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan D Neff ◽  
Tim Hain
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finch ◽  
Taeniopygia Guttata ◽  
Natal Nest ◽  
Nest Recognition

scholarly journals Odour-based natal nest recognition in the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia guttata ), a colony-breeding songbird

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Caspers ◽  
E. Tobias Krause
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finch ◽  
Olfactory Cues ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Passerine Birds ◽  
Natal Nest ◽  
Nest Recognition ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Olfactory Receptor Genes ◽  
Nest Odour ◽  
First Time

Passerine birds have an extensive repertoire of olfactory receptor genes. However, the circumstances in which passerine birds use olfactory signals are poorly understood. The aim of this study is to investigate whether olfactory cues play a role in natal nest recognition in fledged juvenile passerines. The natal nest provides fledglings with a safe place for sleeping and parental food provisioning. There is a particular demand in colony-breeding birds for fledglings to be able to identify their nests because many pairs breed close to each other. Olfactory orientation might thus be of special importance for the fledglings, because they do not have a visual representation of the nest site and its position in the colony when leaving the nest for the first time. We investigated the role of olfaction in nest recognition in zebra finches, which breed in dense colonies of up to 50 pairs. We performed odour preference tests, in which we offered zebra finch fledglings their own natal nest odour versus foreign nest odour. Zebra finch fledglings significantly preferred their own natal nest odour, indicating that fledglings of a colony breeding songbird may use olfactory cues for nest recognition.

scholarly journals Differences in Depredation by Small Predators Limit the Use of Plasticine and Zebra Finch Eggs in Artificial-Nest Studies

The Condor ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Maier ◽  
Richard M. Degraaf
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammals ◽  
Zebra Finch ◽  
House Sparrow ◽  
Peromyscus Leucopus ◽  
Passer Domesticus ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Taeniopygia Guttata ◽  
Artificial Nest ◽  
Neotropical Migrant ◽  
Passerine Species

Abstract Small mammals, such as mice and voles, have been implicated as major egg predators of Neotropical migrant passerines by field studies using soft plasticine eggs or the very small eggs of Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Nevertheless, the effort required to depredate these commonly used egg surrogates may be less than that required to depredate the larger, thicker-shelled eggs of most passerine species. To compare the depredation of these surrogates to that of the eggs of a mid-sized passerine by a ubiquitous small predator, we exposed dissimilar pairs of plasticine, Zebra Finch, and House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) eggs to captive white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus). Plasticine eggs were marked by mice more than either kind of real egg, and Zebra Finch eggs were breached more often than House Sparrow eggs. We conclude that the use of either plasticine or Zebra Finch eggs may lead to overestimation of the ability or proclivity of small mammals to actually depredate the eggs of most passerines.

scholarly journals A comparison of SNPs and microsatellites as linkage mapping markers: lessons from the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)

BMC Genomics ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander D Ball ◽  
Jessica Stapley ◽  
Deborah A Dawson ◽  
Tim R Birkhead ◽  
Terry Burke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finch ◽  
Linkage Mapping ◽  
Taeniopygia Guttata

scholarly journals Identification and characterization of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) sperm proteome

2019 ◽  
Vol 193 ◽  
pp. 192-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissah Rowe ◽  
Sheri Skerget ◽  
Matthew A. Rosenow ◽  
Timothy L. Karr
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finch ◽  
Taeniopygia Guttata ◽  
Identification And Characterization
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