A comparison of the breeding ecology of birds nesting in boxes and tree cavities

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 646-656

  Purcell, Kathryn L ^a,b   Verner, Jared ^b   Oring, Lewis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING ECOLOGY; NEST BOX; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TREE CAVITY;

AVES; MYIARCHUS CINERASCENS; PARIDAE; PARUS INORNATUS; SIALIA MEXICANA; TROGLODYTES AEDON; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0030928068     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089284     Document Type: Article

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