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The cost of extra-pair fertilizations to female red-winged blackbirds

1994; Royal Society; Volume: 258; Issue: 1353 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1994.0179

1471-2954

Robert Montgomerie, H. Lisle Gibbs, Peter T. Boag,

Plant and animal studies

Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Weatherhead Patrick J. , Montgomerie Robert , Gibbs H. Lisle and Boag Peter T. 1994The cost of extra-pair fertilizations to female red-winged blackbirdsProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.258315–320http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1994.0179SectionRestricted accessArticleThe cost of extra-pair fertilizations to female red-winged blackbirds Patrick J. Weatherhead Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , Robert Montgomerie Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author , H. Lisle Gibbs Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Peter T. Boag Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Patrick J. Weatherhead Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed , Robert Montgomerie Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed , H. Lisle Gibbs Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Peter T. Boag Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 December 1994https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1994.0179AbstractIt has recently become apparent that females of many species of birds often copulate with, and produce young sired by, males other than their social mates. Understanding the adaptive significance of this behaviour requires knowing whether extra-pair matings entail any cost to females. We investigated nest success relative to paternity in red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) over 5 years and found that nest success declined as the proportion of nestlings that was sired by extra-pair males increased. Nest defence against potential predators is the principal form of paternal care in this population. Males defended nests less vigorously when they contained nestlings sired by other males, suggesting that the lower success of those nests was a consequence of reduced paternal care. Nests with extra-pair young were more successful when the true father was a local resident, suggesting that resident males may defend other males' nests if they have sired some of the young. Our results indicate that females must realize substantial improvement in offspring fitness if they are to compensate for the cost of extra-pair fertilizations.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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