Do artificial nests reveal relative nest predation risk for real nests

By T. Pärt, Johan Wretenberg. 2002

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Predation rate on artificial nests increases with human housing density in suburban habitats (2003, methodology): “The value in this method lies in making relative comparisons among treatments rather than absolute estimates of rates of nest predation ( Part and Wretenberg 2001, Zanette 2002).”
The impact of feral horses on grassland bird communities in Argentina (2004, background): “Differences may also arise due to the presence of adult birds defending their nests and due to the fact that, in general, quail eggs are larger than the wild birds’ eggs and so they are not attacked by certain groups of predators with small beaks or jaws (Pärt & Wretenberg, 2002).”
Understanding avian nest predation: why ornithologists should study snakes (2004, unknown): “Similarly, using marks left by predators on artificial eggs placed in artificial nests is proving to be unreliable because artificial eggs and nests do not attract the same suite of predators as real eggs and nests (Pärt and Wretenberg 2002).”