FACTORS AFFECTING THE AGE OF FIRST BREEDING OF THE KITTIWAKE RISSA TRIDACTYLA

At a Kittiwake colony in Northumberland, 80% of those birds which returned to their natal colony to breed were males and these supplied 52% of all male recruits. More females breed away from their natal colony than males. There was no differences in the proportions of young fledged from sites in the centre or at the edge of the colony, or by parents of different experience, which returned to breed. Kittiwakes breed for the first time at ages from 3 to 8 years, but most at 4 or S years old. Males arrive back at the colony at an earlier age than females and breed for the first time one year earlier. Males obtaining sites at the centre of the colony first breed at an earlier age than those at the edges. Neither the age nor the area of first breeding appear to be transmitted from parent to offspring. Males breeding first aged 4 years or younger produced more young than those which first bred aged 5 years or older, despite their partners laying smaller clutches. This difference was most marked among those males recruited to sites in the centre of the colony. The advantage of this earlier breeding is counteracted by a lower survival rate among those males which start to breed at the younger ages. In all breeding Kittiwakes, annual reproductive output increases with experience while annual survival rates decrease. Once they had started to breed, many birds failed to breed in one subsequent season. Nearly 60% of these cases of intermittent breeding occurred in the year following first breeding. Intermittent breeding was most frequent among young birds and among females. It is suggested that each breeding involves a cost to the individual in terms of reduced survival, and that deferred and intermittent breeding are means of guarding survival. A model is proposed whereby the age at which a bird starts to breed, the nesting site which it obtains, and its subsequent breeding strategy result in each individual producing an optimal number of reproducing offspring in its lifetime, relative to its quality.     

THE EFFECT OF AGE ON THE BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE KITTTWAKE RISSA TRIDACTYLA

1. From 1954 to 1956 inclusive, the biology of individual marked Kittiwakes was studied at North Shields, Northumberland.
2. It was concluded that older Kittiwakes reacted to the breeding stimulus earlier, more intensively and with greater success than younger breeding birds.
3. Birds with previous breeding experience returned to the colony before birds breeding for the first time and these before non-breeders.
4. Before breeding started, birds which had bred previously spent more of their time at the colony than those about to breed for the first time.
5. Birds breeding for at least the second time laid the first egg 7·5 days earlier than those breeding for the first time.
6. Breeding started one day later for every four days the return to the colony was postponed.
7. Older breeding birds showed greater nest-site tenacity, laid larger clutches and had greater breeding success than younger birds.
8. The chicks in broods of two (but not of one) increased in weight more rapidly where the parents had previous experience.
9. Breeding Kittiwakes showed strong colony tenacity, but 24% of the marked non-breeding birds were subsequently seen in other colonies.
10. Over half the birds retained the same mate as in the previous year.     

A STUDY OF A FIELD POPULATION OF THE BLOWFLIES LU CILIA CAESAR (L.) AND L. SERICATA (MG.)

Attempts to measure the dispersion, population density and longevity of blowflies are described. The experiments were made at Aber, Caernarvonshire, in 1943 on a narrow strip of coastal farm land (if x f ml.). Two liberations of laboratory-bred Lucilia sericata (Mg.) were made. On the second occasion 286 flies of each sex were marked, and nine males and nineteen females were captured, the last capture occurring 15 days after liberation. The population density of this species was estimated to be approximately seven males and sixteen females per acre for the 840-acre strip on the day of the second liberation.
On 24 days during the period 20 August–20 September 1943, field-caught L. caesar (L.) females were marked, and trapping both by meat and chemical baits was continued for a further 3 weeks. 3600 females were marked, 847 being recaptured at least once, and sixteen on at least four occasions. In the later part of the blowfly season, a life of 5–6 weeks is apparently not unusual for L. caesar females. The population drawn upon by the traps at the liberation centre fluctuated between 700 and 30,000 during the 4-week period. This may have represented a very localized concentration equivalent to 6–238 females per acre. Dispersion of marked L. caesar was low. On the assumption of a maximum spread of 5 miles, some 63 % of the marked flies remained within 4 mile of the liberation centre.     

A STUDY OF THE KINETICS OF MICROSPOROGENESIS IN CAMPELIA ZANONIA (L.) H.B.K.

During maturation, microspores pass through a series of morphologically distinguishable stages or compartments. A study has been made of the systematic fluctuations in the frequency of microspores in these compartments, when plants are grown under rigidly controlled conditions. A new approach to the construction of cumulative flux rate curves is described; these give the number of cells passing the compartment boundaries per unit time. The curves obtained indicate that simple models, which assume constant flux rates and compartment transit times, will not explain the observations. It is evident that not only do microspores mature at different rates, but that the maturation rate of individual microspores varies during the developmental sequence. The overall process may be controlled by the intimate relationship which exists between the microspores and the tapetal periplasmodium in the Tradescantiae.     

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