April Harding-Scurr's scientific contributions

Publication (1)

Article
We present details on parental care and foraging behavior of Olive-sided Flycatchers (Contopus cooperi) in central Alaska. We document the first evidence of fecal sac consumption in this species. Both sexes exhibited this behavior while tending chicks less than one week old. Adults with older nestlings (1.5–2 weeks) removed fecal sacs only. The gen...

Citations

... Cut stumps are nowadays by far the most common form of coarse woody debris (Dahlberg et al., 2011) and may locally constitute up to 90 % of all woody debris (Rouvinen et al., 2002). Initially, cut stumps are often somewhat taller than the herbaceous layer, and it is well known that passerines often associate with low coarse woody debris in natural forests for example to perch on while foraging for insects (Skutck, 1971;Laven and MacNally, 1998;Hagelin et al., 2015), whereas this remains, to our knowledge, not documented for cut stumps in intensive forestry systems. ...