
%0 Journal Article
%A Watling, D 
%T The breeding biology of the Red-vented Bulbul <I>Pycnonotus cafer</I> in Fiji
%J Emu
%D 1983/09/01
%V 83
%N 3
%P 173-180
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9830173
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU9830173 
%X In Fiji, the Red-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus cafer has a distinct breeding season which occurs during the rains. The Bulbul has a mean clutch size of 2.5. There is a high rate of egg and nestling loss; 72% of eggs laid do not hatch and 53% of nestlings do not survive. Bulbuls have an extended period of parental care of fledglings and are unlikely to raise more than one brood in a season. Fledgling survival appears to be good and the annual recruitment rate is probably about 30%, although in one year it was considerably less. 
