Azure-winged Magpies avoid nest predation by nesting near a Japanese Lesser Sparrowhawk's nest

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 400-402

  Ueta, Mutsuyuki ^a  

^a Wild Bird Society of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azure winged Magpie; Behavioral exploitation; Cyanopica cyana; Japanese Lesser Sparrowhawk; Nest predation; Nest site selection

Indexed keywords

ACCIPITER GULARIS; ACCIPITRINAE; CORVIDAE; CYANOPICA CYANA; CYANOPICA CYANUS;

EID: 0031860227     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370285     Document Type: Article

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