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中杜鹃捕食比氏鹟莺的卵

粟通萍1,2,邵玲2,霍娟2,杨灿朝2,梁伟2*#br#   

  1. (1北京林业大学自然保护区学院, 北京 100083; 2热带动植物生态学省部共建教育部重点实验室, 海南师范大学生命科学
    学院, 海口 571158)
  • 出版日期:2017-01-10 发布日期:2017-01-10

Himalayan Cuckoo fed on eggs of Bianchi’s Warbler.

SU Tong-ping1,2, SHAO Ling2, HUO Juan2, YANG Can-chao2, LIANG Wei2*#br#   

  1. (1 College of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China; 2 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China).
  • Online:2017-01-10 Published:2017-01-10

摘要: 许多杜鹃在产下寄生卵之前通常会先叼走或吃掉宿主的1~2枚卵,这说明杜鹃不仅是寄生性繁殖的鸟类,同时可能也是潜在的捕食者。关于杜鹃对其宿主巢捕食的动机,一般认为一是由于杜鹃发现宿主巢时,已不适合寄生,将其捕食或毁坏可迫使宿主重新筑巢,从而杜鹃会获得寄生机会;二则可能由于宿主识别并拒绝了寄生卵,一些杜鹃会通过捕食或破坏宿主的巢,作为对宿主的一种惩罚性报复。2015年6月,在贵州宽阔水自然保护区,通过录像首次记录到中杜鹃(Cuculus saturatus)捕食整巢比氏鹟莺(Seicercus latouchei)卵的行为,表明中杜鹃不仅是许多宿主鸟类的巢寄生者,同时也可能是其巢捕食者。

Abstract: Some avian parasites (i.e., cuckoos) usually remove or eat one or two host eggs before laying their own eggs on host nest. This behavior indicates that parasitic cuckoos could also be nest predators. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain the cuckoo predation behavior: (1) cuckoos may depredate host nests that are unsuitable for parasitism and force the host to renest, then cuckoo would get more chance for parasitism (nest farming); (2) cuckoo may depredate host nests as a retaliatory behavior if the host rejected cuckoo’s eggs. In Kuankuoshui National Nature Reserve, Guizhou, southwest China, we found one case of the Himalayan Cuckoo (Cuculus saturatus) fed on eggs of the Bianchi’s Warbler (Seicercus latouchei) by using a video record in June 2015. To our knowledge, this is the first report on predation of the Himalayan Cuckoo on its warbler host. This study shows that the Himalayan Cuckoo is not only a brood parasite but also a nest predator. The motivation of cuckoo predation on warbler nest of this record seemed to meet with the first hypothesis, namely nest farming.