Factors Related to Body Condition of Nestling Burrowing Owls in Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota

Randall L. Griebel; Julie A. Savidge

doi:10.1676/02-094

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Randall L. Griebel,^*,**,*** Julie A. Savidge^****

^*School of Natural Resource Sciences, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0819, USA
^**Current address: Hell Canyon Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest, 330 Mount Rushmore Rd., Custer, SD 57730-1928, USA
^***Corresponding author; rgriebel@fs.fed.us
^****Dept. of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO 80523-1474, USA

Abstract

We analyzed the body condition of nestling Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) at Buffalo Gap National Grassland during the summers of 1999 and 2000. In 1999, which had a wet spring, body condition was negatively related to brood size and distance from nest to colony edge. There was no relationship between body condition and brood size during 2000, which had normal precipitation. In 2000, nestlings of early arriving pairs were in better body condition than those that arrived later. The variance in body condition within a brood was not related to brood size.

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Randall L. Griebel and Julie A. Savidge "Factors Related to Body Condition of Nestling Burrowing Owls in Buffalo Gap National Grassland, South Dakota," The Wilson Bulletin 115(4), 477-480, (1 December 2003). https://doi.org/10.1676/02-094

Received: 29 August 2002; Accepted: 1 February 2003; Published: 1 December 2003

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