FIRST REPORT OF COWBIRD PARASITISM ON THE BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER IN WESTERN MEXICO

Jorge H. Vega Rivera; Fernando Alvarado; Taĺia Valdivia; John Rappole

doi:10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0277:FROCPO>2.0.CO;2

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Jorge H. Vega Rivera,^1,2 Fernando Alvarado,¹ Taĺia Valdivia,¹ John Rappole³

¹Estación Biología Chamela, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 21, San Patricio, Jalisco 48980, México
²Corrspondent: jhvega@ibiologia.unam.mx
³Conservation and Research Center, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 24060

Abstract

Information on cowbird parasitism in Mexico is rare. We report the successful fledging of a brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) nestling by black-capped gnatcatchers (Polioptila nigriceps) in the tropical deciduous forest of the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve, western Mexico, in June 2001. We observed 2 additional gnatcatcher pairs feeding a single brown-headed cowbird fledging. Opportunistic observations of nests of other species and few captures of brown-headed cowbirds during 18 months of intensive mistnetting suggested that cowbird abundance and parasitism was low in the reserve.

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Jorge H. Vega Rivera, Fernando Alvarado, Taĺia Valdivia, and John Rappole "FIRST REPORT OF COWBIRD PARASITISM ON THE BLACK-CAPPED GNATCATCHER IN WESTERN MEXICO," The Southwestern Naturalist 49(2), 277-278, (1 June 2004). https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0277:FROCPO>2.0.CO;2

Accepted: 16 June 2003; Published: 1 June 2004

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