Avoiding the nest: Responses of field sparrows to the threat of nest predation

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 803-806

  Burhans, Dirk E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSERIDAE; SPIZELLA PUSILLA;

EID: 0033943740     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089608     Document Type: Article

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