Abundance and prevalence of plastic twine in nests of Neotropical farmland birds

摘要: ABSTRACT The materials used for nesting have important structural and nonstructural functions in bird nests. A number of species incorporate anthropogenic debris their nests, but there are few systematic studies about such use by terrestrial birds. Here, we test whether the prevalence amount plastic twine differs among nests Neotropical birds an orange orchard. We found 78 which 21 (27%) contained plastic. with belonged to 5 (Columbina talpacoti, Thamnophilus doliatus, Turdus amaurochalinus, Coryphospingus cucullatus, Zonotrichia capensis), differed both was higher T. doliatus than Z. capensis greater those C. cucullatus capensis. Our results suggest that material nest construction may depend on suitability its properties specific n...