Woodpigeons Columba palumbus breeding in open land associate with Kestrel Falco tinnunculus nests

Bird Study

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-95

  Bang, Johannes ^a   Jensen, Bent ^b   Sunde, Peter ^c  

^a Ecology Building ^*  (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NEST SITE;

COLUMBA PALUMBUS; FALCO TINNUNCULUS;

EID: 14844323038     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650509461378     Document Type: Article

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