Use of sensory cues by fish crows Corvus ossifragus preying on artificial bird nests

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 245-252

  Santisteban, Leonard ^a   Sieving, Kathryn E ^a   Avery, Michael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SENSOR;

UNITED STATES;

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS; CORVUS OSSIFRAGUS; GALLIFORMES; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0036743662     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-048X.2002.330306.x     Document Type: Article

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