Green Woodhoopoes (Phoeniculus purpureus) and Obligate Cavity Roosting Provide a Test of the Thermoregulatory Insufficiency Hypothesis

Obligate cavity-roosting as a constraint

Obligate cavity-roosting as a constraint on dispersal of green (red-billed) woodhoopoes: consequences for philopatry and the likelihood of inbreeding

✍ Morné A. Plessis 📂 Article 📅 1992 🏛 Springer-Verlag 🌐 English ⚖ 847 KB

I studied and compared life histories and dispersal patterns of two populations of green (red-billed) woodhoopoes Phoeniculus purpureus, occupying different habitats (with widely different vegetation, topography and climate), over a period of eight years (258 "flock years") in the eastern Cape Provi