High Incubation Attendance and Nesting Site Constraints of the Sclater's Monal in an Alpine Environment in Southwestern China
Nehafta Bibi, Ge Gao, Dan Liang, Xu Luo · 2024
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Description
Nehafta Bibi and co-authors track how a rare alpine pheasant breeds where nesting spots are scarce. Their 2024 study deals with Sclater's monal, a threatened bird of high slopes from the East Himalayas to west Yunnan, China. Field seasons in the Gaoligong Mountains found six cliff nest sites, all high on the mountain. Some sites saw use in both years, and males clashed hard near them, a sign that good sites are few.
Females alone sat on the eggs, and they sat nearly all the time, in bouts far longer than other pheasants manage. Clutches held two or three eggs, and all eggs found hatched. Such heavy mother care fits the harsh alpine stakes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Nehafta Bibi, Ge Gao, Dan Liang, Xu Luo |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |