Saw 10 banded plover on Wilmington -Pt Augusta rd tonight. Reading up on them in HAANZAB it states they are monogamous, but also reports a case of possible nest sharing. I assume these days with DNA testing that being monogamous would prove to be false and that this applies to all birds.
Any comments? Is there DNA backed evidence of monogamy?
gary ===============================
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It seems to me that your question sort of implies that DNA testing has been done for all birds and that we know the answer to this for all birds (let alone for the Banded Plover). I am sure we don’t come remotely close to this. Also I would be fairly confident that not all individual birds of many species use the same mating system. It does appear to be correct that research on several bird species that were normally observed or assumed to be monogamous do also include some to much extra pair matings.
Philip