Formal comment to Soler et al.: Great spotted cuckoo nestlings have no antipredatory effect on magpie or carrion crow host nests in southern Spain

Daniela Canestrari; Diana Bolopo; Ted C J Turlings; Gregory Röder; José M Marcos; Vittorio Baglione

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184446

Formal comment to Soler et al.: Great spotted cuckoo nestlings have no antipredatory effect on magpie or carrion crow host nests in southern Spain

PLoS One. 2017 Sep 18;12(9):e0184446. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184446. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Daniela Canestrari^{1

2}, Diana Bolopo³, Ted C J Turlings⁴, Gregory Röder⁴, José M Marcos⁵, Vittorio Baglione^{5

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems (BOS), University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.
² Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, CSIC, UO), Mieres, Spain.
³ FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
⁵ Dep. of Agro-forestry, University of Valladolid, Palencia, Spain.
⁶ Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute, Palencia, Spain.
⁷ Departamento de Biodiversidad y Gestión Ambiental, Universidad de León, León, Spain.

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Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Birds*
Crows
Nesting Behavior
Passeriformes*
Spain

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Projects CGL2016-77636-P. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.