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I have checked nestboxes in other areas in St. Louis in the past and based on my previous experience, I was eager to check these nestboxes because I had several questions in mind. Who would use these boxes and if there were competing bird species, which would be the dominant species? How sensitive to human disturbance would these birds be? What would happen if I opened the box and caught the adult sitting on the nest? Would that bird decide to abandon its nest? How suseptible to predation are these nestboxes and do the ventilation holes in some of the boxes make a difference in nest mortality rates?