Predation favours cryptic coloration in breeding male pied flycatchers

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1109-1121

  Slagsvold, Tore ^a   Dale, Svein ^a   Kruszewicz, Andrzej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Institute of Ecology and Bioethics   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; PIED FLYCATCHER; PLUMAGE; PREDATION RISK; SPARROWHAWK;

BIRD; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOREST; INBREEDING; MALE; MATURATION; NESTLING; NORWAY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES;

NORWAY;

FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 0028982411     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-3472(95)80110-3     Document Type: Article

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