Demographic and behavioral responses of the White-winged Dove to human disturbances during winter in northwestern Mexico

Rubén Ortega-Álvarez; Jovani León-Aguilar; Antonio Isain Contreras-Rodríguez; Gustavo Castañeda de los Santos

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Avian Research 2022, 13(4): 100064 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2022.100064

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Demographic and behavioral responses of the White-winged Dove to human disturbances during winter in northwestern Mexico

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Rubén Ortega-Álvarez^{^a}(

), Jovani León-Aguilar^{^b}, Antonio Isain Contreras-Rodríguez^{^c}, Gustavo Castañeda de los Santos^{^d}

Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (IIES) - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia, Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8711, Col. San José de la Huerta, Morelia, Michoacán, 58190, Mexico

Programa de Aves Urbanas (PAU), Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico

Quirino Mendoza #320, Colonia del Carmen, Xochimilco, Ciudad de México, 16720, Mexico

Departamento de Educación Ambiental, Jardín Botánico Benjamin Francis Johnston, Sinaloa, Mexico

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Density, Agriculture, Urbanization, Perch, Sinaloa, Zenaida asiatica

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Ortega-Álvarez R, León-Aguilar J, Contreras-Rodríguez AI, et al. Demographic and behavioral responses of the White-winged Dove to human disturbances during winter in northwestern Mexico. Avian Research, 2022, 13(4): 100064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2022.100064

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The simultaneous study of demography and behavior might provide a more comprehensive understanding about animal responses to anthropogenic disturbances. The White-winged Dove (Zenaida asiatica) is a frequent dweller of urban and agricultural habitats in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Still, research on the species is heavily biased to the USA. We analyzed the response of the species to human disturbances during winter across an urban-agricultural landscape in northwestern Mexico through a demographic and behavioral approach. We modeled the effect of disturbance types (pedestrians, cars, pavement and building cover) on the density of the species. Also, we investigated if surveillance behavior varied across the landscape by estimating and comparing perching proportion among land uses (urban grey areas, urban green areas, cropfields, shrublands). We did not detect the species within cropfields, possibly because food resources were not available for the dove during winter in this land use. Pavement cover limited species' density, as it might reduce the surface of the preferred feeding substrates of the dove. Pedestrians and building cover increased the density of the species, as they might provide food and shelter for the dove, respectively. Surveillance behavior peaked in urban grey areas, whereas it dropped in urban green areas. Differences on threat levels, threat type, and protective cover among land uses might influence such behavioral pattern. Our approach contributes to the knowledge of the species and demonstrates that both demographic and behavioral cues provide complementary evidence for analyzing the impact of human disturbances on animals.

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Demographic and behavioral responses of the White-winged Dove to human disturbances during winter in northwestern Mexico

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Rubén Ortega-Álvarez^{^a}(

), Jovani León-Aguilar^{^b}, Antonio Isain Contreras-Rodríguez^{^c}, Gustavo Castañeda de los Santos^{^d}

Programa de Aves Urbanas (PAU), Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico

Quirino Mendoza #320, Colonia del Carmen, Xochimilco, Ciudad de México, 16720, Mexico

Departamento de Educación Ambiental, Jardín Botánico Benjamin Francis Johnston, Sinaloa, Mexico

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Keywords: Density, Agriculture, Urbanization, Perch, Sinaloa, Zenaida asiatica

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Received: 11 August 2022

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We are grateful to the Jardín Botánico Benjamin Francis Johnston for the logistical and financial support provided for the development of this study, which is associated to the project "Importancia del JB Benjamin Francis Johnston y otras áreas verdes urbanas para las aves en los Mochis, Sinaloa, durante la época migratoria y reproductiva del 2021" (Fondo FORDECYT-PRONACES, CONACYT). We acknowledge the Programa de Aves Urbanas (PAU) of CONABIO, specially Tatiana Sánchez Rodríguez, for promoting birdwatching in Los Mochis. RO-A received the support from the DGAPA-UNAM Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021–2022 during which this article was completed. We thank two anonymous reviewers who provided valuable suggestions that improved the quality of our work.

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