The First Record of Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) Nesting in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia with a Description of Nest Attendance Behavior
The First Record of Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) Nesting in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia with a Description of Nest Attendance Behavior
Monif AlRashidi1*, Sami Saeed M. Hassan2 and Mohammed Shobrak3
Fig. 1.
Ambient temperature about 1 m from the nest (red line), the temperature under the egg directly (blue line), (mean ± SE for each two-h-time period).
Fig. 2.
Nest attendance (%), the percentage when the incubating parent sat on the nest, and its belly feathers touched the egg (blue color), the percentage when the incubating parent stood on the nest, and its belly feathers did not touch the egg (red color).
Fig. 3.
Incubating adult orientation (%), West (green color), East (red color), North (blue color) and South (yellow color).
February 2022
Vol. 54, Iss. 1, Pages 1-501
