Nest Boxes for White-Throated Needletailed Swift Hirundapus caudacutus to Promote Conservation and Support Ecological Research

Noriyuki M. Yamaguchi; Sayaka Mori; Hiroshi Yonekawa; Daichi Waga; Hiroyoshi Higuchi

doi:10.2326/osj.19.217

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24 July 2020 Nest Boxes for White-Throated Needletailed Swift Hirundapus caudacutus to Promote Conservation and Support Ecological Research

Noriyuki M. Yamaguchi, Sayaka Mori, Hiroshi Yonekawa, Daichi Waga, Hiroyoshi Higuchi

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Ornithological Science, 19(2):217-221 (2020). https://doi.org/10.2326/osj.19.217

Abstract

The provision of nest boxes to supplement naturally available nest sites can be an effective means of conserving cavity nesters. The White-throated Needletailed Swift Hirundapus caudacutus is a large, cavity-nesting swift. With reference to their natural nesting cavities in trees, we developed nest boxes for the species. Fourteen out of 20 nest boxes were used by needletails in 2017 and 2018 and monitored using nest cameras inside the boxes. Nest boxes were as successful as natural tree cavities in terms of the number of young reared.

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Noriyuki M. Yamaguchi, Sayaka Mori, Hiroshi Yonekawa, Daichi Waga, and Hiroyoshi Higuchi "Nest Boxes for White-Throated Needletailed Swift Hirundapus caudacutus to Promote Conservation and Support Ecological Research," Ornithological Science 19(2), 217-221, (24 July 2020). https://doi.org/10.2326/osj.19.217

Received: 27 August 2019; Accepted: 27 February 2020; Published: 24 July 2020

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