Unplanned restoration: Pallid swifts recover twenty years after rat removal from a Mediterranean island

Authors

  • Jean-Louis Martin Université de Montpellier - Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, France
  • Jean-Claude Thibault Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Paris, France

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30456/avo.2022101

Keywords:

islands, unexpected restauration, nest sites, nest site selection, nest predation

Abstract

Results from an experimental study from 1994 suggested that Black Rats, introduced on small Mediterranean islands, restricted Pallid Swift nesting to a small number of sites inaccessible to rats. We report here that the removal of rats in 2000 to restore a seabird population was followed by an unplanned increase of nesting Pallid Swifts through an increase in the number and variety of nest sites used, including low and easily reachable sites.

Author Biographies

  • Jean-Louis Martin, Université de Montpellier - Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, France

    CNRS

    EPHE

    IRD

    Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France

  • Jean-Claude Thibault, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Paris, France

    CNRS

    SU

    EPHE, Paris, France

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Published

2022-01-31

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 1 (2022)

Section

Short communications

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How to Cite

Unplanned restoration: Pallid swifts recover twenty years after rat removal from a Mediterranean island. (2022). Avocetta, 46(1). https://doi.org/10.30456/avo.2022101