What do artificial nests tells us about nest predation

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Differences in Predators of Artificial and Real Songbird Nests: Evidence of Bias in Artificial Nest Studies (2004, background): “…comparing artificial and real nests have inferred that potential biases exist with artificial nests (Wilson et al. 1998; Davison & Bollinger 2000; Zanette 2002; Burke et al. 2004), but because they did not directly identify predators at both nest types, they could only speculate about processes…”
Nest predation research: recent findings and future perspectives (2015, background): “2014) even though artificial nests often produce unrealistic patterns of nest predation (e.g. Weidinger 2001; Zanette 2002; Moore and Robinson 2004).”
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).”