Nest predation and semicolonial breeding in linnets carduelis cannabina: Nest predation in linnets in denmark was caused mainly by hooded crows corvus corone cornix and magpies pica pica with no experimental evidence of antipredator aggression

Bird Study

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-41

  Drachmann, Jan ^a   Broberg, Mads M ^a   Søgaard, Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carduelis

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; COLONIAL BREEDING; NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

DENMARK;

CARDUELIS; CARDUELIS CANNABINA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS; CORVUS CORONE; CORVUS CORONE CORNIX; PASSERIFORMES; PICA; PICA PICA;

EID: 0036233974     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650209461242     Document Type: Article

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