A New Feature of Nesting Ecology in the Vulnerable European Turtle Dove: Nest Site and Nesting Tree Sharing with Coexisting Species at Three North African Wetlands

Table 2

Comparison of distances separating dove nests and nests of neighbouring species using the same nesting trees (turtle dove and blackbird, Bonelli’s Warbler, and woodchat shrike), tested using the one-way ANOVA test.

Parameters	Cohabiting species			Statistic test
	S. turtur–T. merula	S. turtur–P. bonelli	S. turtur–L. senator	F
Number of nests on the same tree support	7	9	2	—	—
Number of nests on the same three species	19	25	6	—	—
Distances between nests on the same tree support	22.88 ± 4.77 cm	22.88 ± 4.77 cm	172.5 ± 115.39 cm	11.413	0.000
Distances between nests on the same species of tree	31.22 ± 5.61 m	37.33 ± 7.47 m	67.87 ± 32.00 m	1.041	0.369