The foraging ecology of cavity-nesting birds in young forests of the Northern Coast Range of Oregon

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 58-66

  Weikel, Jennifer M ^a   Hayes, John P ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavity nesting; Certhia americana; Foraging ecology; Habitat selection; Picoides villosus; Poecile rufescens; Sitta canadensis

Indexed keywords

ABIES; AVES; CERTHIA AMERICANA; CERTHIIDAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; PARIDAE; PARUS RUFESCENS; PICIDAE; PICOIDES VILLOSUS; POECILE RUFESCENS; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; SITTA CANADENSIS; SITTIDAE;

EID: 0032983010     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370446     Document Type: Article

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