Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

A comparison of problem-solving success between urban and rural house sparrows

Sándor Papp*, Ernő Vincze, Bálint Preiszner, András Liker, Veronika Bókony

*Corresponding author:

Department of Limnology, University of Pannonia, H-8200 Veszprém, Pf. 158, Hungary

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Supplementary Table 1 Characteristics of the capture sites in the order of increasing urbanization score, and number of the captured birds (urban sites are highlighted in bold). See Methods for the calculation of urbanization scores.

Site / Mean vegetation density score / Mean building density score / Number of cells with road / Number of cells with high (>50%) vegetation density / Number of cells with high (>50%) building density / Density of residential human population / Urbanization score / Number of captured birds
Szentgál*
47° 6'9.65"N
17°42'14.54"E / 2.02 / 0.03 / 13 / 100 / 0 / 6 / -1.32 / 13
Salföld
46°50'13.11"N
17°32'57.19"E / 2.02 / 0.10 / 17 / 100 / 1 / 12.4 / -1.23 / 5
Babat
47°37'23.17"N
19°22'47.76"E / 1.89 / 0.25 / 11 / 90 / 6 / 4 / -1.16 / 4
Üllő-Dóramajor
47°20'41.41"N
19°19'6.81"E / 1.91 / 0.37 / 28 / 89 / 10 / 3.58 / -1.03 / 10
Bánd
47° 7'18.39"N
17°47'34.95"E / 1.93 / 0.29 / 16 / 91 / 5 / 64.9 / -0.97 / 5
Seregélyes-Szőlőhegy
47° 6'33.01"N
18°36'58.55"E / 1.90 / 0.39 / 25 / 88 / 9 / 58.7 / -0.85 / 10
Öskü
47° 9'48.18"N
18° 4'19.85"E / 1.59 / 1.12 / 54 / 57 / 42 / 47.7 / -0.05 / 4
Ajka
47° 5'49.60"N
17°32'18.89"E / 1.65 / 1.06 / 59 / 64 / 31 / 334.6 / -0.03 / 7
Budapest, IX-X.
47°28'15.10"N
19° 6'39.03"E / 1.35 / 1.21 / 71 / 35 / 49 / 3757.65 / 0.61 / 6
Balatonfüred
46°57'17.98"N
17°53'0.32"E / 1.30 / 1.46 / 82 / 29 / 57 / 278.9 / 0.66 / 7
Dunaújváros
46°57'51.24"N
18°55'49.44"E / 1.30 / 1.51 / 85 / 29 / 68 / 1050.30 / 0.83 / 7
Budapest, XI.
47°27'53.12"N
19° 1'19.43"E / 0.89 / 1.34 / 69 / 6 / 57 / 4315.50 / 1.02 / 8
Siófok
46°54'31.11"N
18° 3'24.31"E / 1.09 / 1.79 / 93 / 9 / 78 / 182 / 1.08 / 7
Veszprém
47° 5'6.91"N
17°54'11.09"E / 1.10 / 1.75 / 88 / 11 / 77 / 495.2 / 1.09 / 5
Székesfehérvár
47°11'22.63"N
18°24'28.92"E / 0.99 / 1.91 / 97 / 6 / 89 / 723.1 / 1.34 / 6

*At Szentgál 9 and 4 birds were captured in 2 different weeks, respectively.

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