Response of a forest raptor community to broadcasts of heterospecific and conspecific calls during the breeding season

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 198-203

  Bosakowski, Thomas ^a,b   Smith, Dwight G ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Beak Consultants Incorporated   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Community; Forest; Hawks; Owls; Raptors; Survey; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; RAPTOR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031683016     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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