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(TOP) Total bobcat visits to parrot nests by month during the 2018 and 2019 breeding seasons. (BOTTOM) Mean time of day (blue wedges) with confidence intervals (black bar) that bobcats were detected by camera traps at the nest sites.
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We report on what appear to be increasing predation events on nesting Thick-billed Parrots Rhychopsitta pachyrhyncha. Thick-billed Parrots are classified as 'Endangered' and their seasonal breeding range is restricted to increasingly fragmented and degraded high elevation mixed conifer forest habitat within the Sierra Madre Occidental region of nor...
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... visited parrot nests a total of 68 times during the night and 54 times during the day during 2019. Mean time of detection at the nests across both years was 06h16 AE 3:35 hours (Figure 3). We confirmed bobcat predation events only on parrots that were nesting within tree cavities, although we also observed bobcats attempting to pull out birds by reaching within the artificial nest boxes (Figure 4). ...
