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["Paul Bedell" <pbedell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is also an article about these same two species nest sharing.

American Robins hatch from Northern Cardinal Nest. Oriole 64 (3-4) Sept.
1999 N.T. Ivey

I believe this is the journal of the Georgia Ornith. Soc.

Paul Bedell


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From: "Spahr MD, John" <Jspahr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [va-bird] Nest sharing


> Mary Reid Barrow's note on interspecies nest sharing is intriguing.  Ya
> wonder what sort of reproductive pressures drive such a phenomenon.  I've
> never heard of this although I have heard of same species sharing nests.
> This Cardinal-Robin nest sharing might deserves photographic documentation
> and publication in a scientific journal, if someone has the time and
> interest. Intrigued by the matter I did a quick Google search and located
a
> few anecdotal records...
>
> 1) Fournier, M. A., and J. E. Hines.  1996.  Nest sharing by a lesser
scaup
> and a greater scaup.  Wilson Bull. 108:380-381.
>
> 2) ..."Some owls recycle abandoned nests of hawks or crows, and there's
even
> a record of nest sharing by a Red-shouldered Hawk that sat on a mixed
clutch
> of eggs at night while a Barred Owl incubated the same nest by day."  in
> http://www.hiltonpond.org/ArticleOwlsSCMain.html
>
> 3)  Arctic Tern - on a 2-egg nest, sharing incubation duties with a
> Forster's. http://folkbird.net/ebb/archive/a0006e.html
>
>
> John Spahr
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