A method to estimate the volume of gull nests

Marcin Przymencki; Klaudia Litwiniak; Natalia Atamas; Mateusz Krukowski

doi:10.34080/os.v32.23442

Authors

Marcin Przymencki Ornithological Society of Silesia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7554-6070
Klaudia Litwiniak Ornithological Society of Silesia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6077-8792
Natalia Atamas Department of Animal Monitoring and Conservation, Laboratory of Population Ecology, I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Science of Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1072-8826
Mateusz Krukowski Institute of Mathematics, Łódź University of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34080/os.v32.23442

Keywords:

Laridae, Larinae, breeding ecology, equation, nest size , field measurements

Abstract

Measuring nest size is an important aspect of studying the breeding biology of birds. Although some simple equations for estimating the volume of passerine nests are available, no methods to estimate nest size for gulls have been described. This paper offers an equation for calculating the volume of gull nests, based on the truncated cone. It requires only four measurements of the nest: outer diameter, inner diameter, height, and cup depth. We also present a way of estimating the volume of nest material.

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