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It is a drop compared with 2017 when 1,314 stork couples were recorded.In 1934, there were 2,219 couples nesting in Slovakia but only 1,018 white stork couples nested in Slovakia back in 1984.This was caused not only by a lack of food and suitable nesting spots in Slovakia over the years but also by the fact that not all white storks make it to Africa and die on their way there.
Mean daily survival was generally lower for the four early successional, shrub-nesting species (0.919-0.952), than the four woodland generalist and forest interior species that nested in trees (0.955 to 0.981; Table 3).
(1991) reported that of 43 nests in total of brown-eared pheasants in Shanxi Province, 29 (67.43%, n=43) nested under a roof of dead sticks from trees logged by local people, whereas 2 (4.65%, n=43) besides larger stones.
In this study, we assessed killdeer reproductive success in a landscape of oil and gas drilling by comparing daily nest survival between birds that nested on oil pads and those that nested on traditional substrates of short grass cover.
The Green Turtle, which is nested in large numbers on most Omani beaches, estimated to number more than 20,000 turtles per year.
A mockingbird, an owl, a sparrow, and a woodpecker each nested in a different tree.
At our study site, western wood-pewees nested in two habitats: riparian habitat and Gambel oak-dominated woodland.
Starlings nested in 40 percent of boxes and 24 percent of tubes, whereas Eastern Bluebirds and Tree Swallows combined nested in 52 percent of boxes and 76 percent of tubes.
Or to the birds which nested in a butt box outside Guhring Tool Makers in Castle Bromwich Business Park several years ago.
These finding are in agreement to the studies done by Vijayan (1980) who reported that red-vented bulbul preferred to build nest in thorny trees and bushes and mostly nested in central position.
We predicted that owls would switch nests more frequently if they nested unsuccessfully in the previous nesting attempt or if there was a turnover in one of the resident owls.
Blackbirds have been found nesting on car wheels, blue tits have set up home in communal ashtrays and mistle thrushes have nested on a set of traffic lights.