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Environmental Correlates Of Nesting Success In Red-Shouldered Hawks, Joan L. Morrison, Michael Mcmillian, Jonathan B. Cohen, Daniel H. Catlin
Environmental Correlates Of Nesting Success In Red-Shouldered Hawks, Joan L. Morrison, Michael Mcmillian, Jonathan B. Cohen, Daniel H. Catlin
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We evaluated the influence of weather on reproduction of the Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) in an agricultural landscape in south-central Florida where we found relatively high densities of successfully nesting hawks. We used a generalized linear modeling approach within an information-theoretic framework to examine the influence of total rainfall, rainfall frequency, and temperature on the timing of nesting, nesting success, and productivity of hawks during 1995-2000. The best models indicated an influence of rainfall frequency and laying period on hawk reproduction. During years with less frequent rainfall in the summer and fall months prior to the beginning of the breeding …