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Table 3 Frequency of available and chosen nest boxes (chosen boxes/available boxes) by Pied Flycatchers in an experiment providing conspecific and heterospecific symbols on nest boxes. The experiment was conducted in a tit dominated (tit rich) and a Pied Flycatcher dominated (PF rich) area (Table 1)

From: Nest site preference depends on the relative density of conspecifics and heterospecifics in wild birds

  2014 2016
Area Tit symbol PF symbol Total Tit symbol PF symbol Total
Tit rich 5/12 2/11 7/23 18/29 7/20 25/49
PF rich 4/11 14/16 18/27 11/30 12/25 23/55
Total 9/23 16/27 25/50 29/59 19/45 48/104