Antipredation value of colonial nesting in Yellow-headed Blackbirds

Auk

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 461-472

  Picman, Jaroslav ^a   Pribil, Stanislav ^a   Isabelle, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; COLONIAL BREEDING; NEST GUARDING; NEST PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SAFETY;

CANADA; MANITOBA;

AVES; CISTOTHORUS; CISTOTHORUS PALUSTRIS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TURDUS MERULA; TYPHA; XANTHOCEPHALUS; XANTHOCEPHALUS XANTHOCEPHALUS;

EID: 0036098498     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089892     Document Type: Article

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