О приспособлениях некоторых видов дуплогнездных птиц к защите потомства от эктопаразитов

Abstract

It wa s established that when making nests starlings use green shoots and potato and potato leaves and tree sparrows — wormwood as a construction material. It is supposed that birds use these plants In connection with their phytoncide properties to disinfect nest chambers from ectoparasites. Adaptive peculiarities of progeny protection from cctoparazites are also considered in some other hollow-nesting birds.