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Table 4 The nest box choice of later arriving male Pied Flycatchers in tit and flycatcher dominated areas, modeled as the probability that an available nest box with a certain nest site character was chosen (baseline model conspecific choice, flycatcher dominated). Conspecific information was copied preferentially in flycatcher dominated areas, whereas the opposite was true in tit dominated areas (Fig. 3)

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

Box chosen (1/0)a

Estimate (SE)

Z5,149

p-value

Intercept (flycatcher dominated, conspecific)

0.580 (0.328)

1.770

0.077

Area tit dominated

−1.391 (0.518)

−2.687

0.0072

Information type heterospecific

−1.014 (0.476)

−2.129

0.033

Nest material presence

−0.242 (0.370)

−0.656

0.512

AreaaInformation type

2.177 (0.689)

3.161

0.0016

  1. aRandom effect variance ± SD ‘1 | year’ = 0.000 ± 0.000