Cost of mobbing call to breeding pied flycatcher, Ficedula hypoleuca

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-40

  Krama, Tatjana ^a   Krams, Indrikis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b DAUGAVPILS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Antipredator behavior; Ficedula hypoleuca; Mobbing calls; Mobbing costs; Pied flycatcher

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; MOBBING; NEST PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; COTURNIX; COTURNIX COTURNIX; FICEDULA; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; MARTES; MARTES AMERICANA; MARTES MARTES; MUSTELINAE; PASSERIFORMES; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 12244296733     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh116     Document Type: Article

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