Azure-winged magpies avoid nest predation by breeding synchronously with Japanese lesser sparrowhawks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1007-1012

  Ueta, Mutsuyuki ^a,b  

^a Wild Bird Society of Japan   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; NEST PREDATION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SYNCHRONY;

JAPAN;

ACCIPITER GULARIS; CYANOPICA CYANA;

EID: 0034983436     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1682     Document Type: Article

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