Causes of mortality at nests of ground-nesting birds in the Upper Waitaki Basin, South Island, New Zealand: A 5-year video study

Biological Conservation

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 225-236

  Sanders, Mark D ^a   Maloney, Richard F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Black stilt; Chick mortality; Egg mortality; Predation; Video

Indexed keywords

BIRD; EGG PREDATION; MORTALITY; NEST PREDATION; VIDEOGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; CHARADRIUS; CHARADRIUS BICINCTUS; CIRCUS APPROXIMANS; ERINACEIDAE; ERINACEUS; ERINACEUS EUROPAEUS; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; GYMNORHINA TIBICEN; HIMANTOPUS NOVAEZELANDIAE; LARIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA FURO; MUSTELA PUTORIUS FURO; OVIS ARIES; STERNA; TIBICEN;

EID: 0036312528     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00248-8     Document Type: Article

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