A record of communal nesting in the barn owl (Tyto alba)

Ezra Hadad; Alexandre Roulin; Motti Charter

doi:10.1676/13-180.1

A record of communal nesting in the barn owl (Tyto alba)

Ezra Hadad, Alexandre Roulin, Motti Charter

School of Environmental Sciences

University of Haifa

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Abstract

We report a unique case of two female Barn Owls laying eggs and incubating together in a single nest cup in a communal nest. A trio of two females and one male bred in an abandoned water tower in 2013 in Israel. Both females incubated/brooded together in the communal nest, and all three individuals brought food to the communal family. The two females laid 20 eggs, of which 19 hatched and 16 fledged.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	114-119
Number of pages	6
Journal	Wilson Journal of Ornithology
Volume	127
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1676/13-180.1
State	Published - 1 Mar 2015

Keywords

Barn Owl
Israel
Tyto alba
communal nesting
cooperative breeding
polygamy

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Ecology
Animal Science and Zoology

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